Bangladesh, July 24 -- The US Pentagon is broken. That assessment, blunt as it is, comes not from external critics but from insiders who have been observing Americas defense apparatus struggle.

As a matter of fact, despite annual spending that now tops one trillion dollars, the US military faces deep fiscal troubles, procurement delays, and systemic issues that have left it lagging in key areas against rivals like China, for instance. Representative Ro Khanna laid this out clearly in a recent Foreign Affairs piece titled “Americas Trillion-Dollar Failure”. In it, the California Democrat argues that the Pentagons acquisition system remains stubbornly slow and wildly over budget.

Khanna points to a defense industry consolidate...