MILITARY
CONCEPTS
The
systems engineer who had first located Page 340 in the L.E.A.A. office told me
the following:
“After the
collapse of the German Third Reich, not only did the United States pick up Adolph
Hitler’s scientists, but the “planners” received a tremendous augmentation when
in 1945 they rummaged over what was left of Hitler’s Third Reich and this
country retrieved the inductive type of reasoning and logic that was used to
operate that totalitarian government. They saw the thorough planning
systems that Hitler’s regime used and they seized upon the thoroughness of Hitler’s
management systems. A lot of these elementary concepts were taken by the
U.S. Air Force and were amalgamated within the prerogative of their
responsibilities which at that time resulted in the setting up of what we now
call the “Military Standards 499 Systems
(Mil-Standard 499 Systems). This is defined as a systematic process
(a methodology) of solving sequential problems. The result is that 99% of the
lower practitioners of these final systems engineering techniques and
methodologies -- with their
short and long range plannings, are completely unaware -- completely oblivious
to the fact of where or why these concepts were developed. Many of our
government employee planners are deploying techniques about which they realize
little or nothing. They are ignorant. This is a very dangerous situation.
They are
completely unaware -- completely
oblivious to the fact of where these concepts were developed
or why! They are doing things that they know nothing about, deploying
techniques about which they are ignorant. This is a very dangerous situation.
The totality
of 499 Systems has been split up into a zillion different little portions, and
different little portions are being practiced by all these various
committees all over the country in various governmental endeavors. They get
the parameters and details of the tasks they have to perform only but they are
not given, nor do they understand, the total integrated picture.
When the whole
thing is in place the U.S. government will be overthrown and replaced by a
military government and the people who worked in the systems will little
understand how their part fit into the complete system; nor how they
assisted in overthrowing their own government.” End of quotation
