ARTICLE: Foreign Policy Beyond the Pentagon,
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, February 9, 2009; Page A15

Good and sensible message from Mullen. Ultimately, the biggest demander for a Department of Everything Else is Defense, because it will be its biggest supplier (of bodies) and customer (as in, I want my Leviathan to go home now).

Realistic on the ten-year window. As I have noted a lot, agencies and departments throughout the gov are now generating these people and these career tracks. There's just no bureaucratic center-of-gravity yet to point them towards.