They Key to Long Term Success?

Many members of the LDM are army acquisition corps types. Which means they plan, procure, test and field equipment for the Army. This also means they get to see how the sausage is made. No where is this more true than in the acquisition corps subfield of contracting. Some LDM members are contracting officers serving in Iraq. They buy goods and services to support the warfighters there and to help rebuild the country. One of the goals in theater is to award as many contracts to Iraqi companies as possible, to help inject cash into the economy to help stablize it. But at what point is it too much and what point are those dollars being spent unwisely. There is an understable mark-up on products bought from Iraqis, since they just import them as middle men and resell them to the government. Is it worth worth a 10 - 20 - or 30% mark-up on items you could likely get through any online retailer to put cash into the economy? Is 40% too much? How about 50%? At what point could those mark-up dollars be better spent on gas, ammunition, etc, to help close with and destroy the enemy? I don't know the answer, but I pose this question:





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