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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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“So, naturally, we formed a task force to determine whether we had too many task forces."
THE PENTAGON – In a groundbreaking move to streamline inefficiency, the Department of Defense has announced the creation of the Task Force of Task Forces (TFTF), a specialized unit built entirely of task forces dedicated solely to establishing additional task forces.
“We realized that every issue, no matter how small, was being assigned its own task force,” said Brig. Gen. Douglas Bureaucracy, the officer tapped to lead the TFTF. “So, naturally, we formed a task force to determine whether we had too many task forces. Their conclusion? We needed another task force.”
The TFTF is expected to conduct a full-scale review of all existing task forces, including:
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