“My own view is that this is a solution desperately searching for a problem—a very elaborate solution and very bureaucratically complex solution searching for a problem,” Sean O’Keefe, Ph.D., distinguished senior advisor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, tells Supercluster. “You could go about raising the visibility, priority, and importance of certain capabilities … if you simply put the concentrated attention to it. By picking this kind of alternative, it creates all these parodies about it, this conception that we're going to have Battlestar Galactica out there, when the reality is we're dealing with folks on the ground. They're doing things that are not nearly as glamorous as what fighter pilots with white stars do. That's the whole stinking trick.”