snowflake n.— «Another characteristic of Mr. Rumsfeld’s management style are memoranda asking pointed questions to which subordinates are supposed to drop everything in order to respond. There are so many of these that people in the...
GWOT n.— «This summer, three of the four offerings have to do with the Iraq war or the GWOT (Pentagonese for “Global War on Terrorism,” of which the Pentagon views the Iraq struggle an integral part).» —“Theater festival...
rice bowl n.— «Gingrich pledged “to cooperate in any way I can on a bipartisan basis in really rethinking all of this” because the effort is “going to require not only reshaping the rice bowls at the Pentagon but...
rice bowl n.— «But some also comes from an institutional, bureaucratic drive to have more airplanes and a bigger share of Navy and Defense Department budgets. “The air-systems people saw that whole program as a gigantic rice bowl...
perfumed prince n.— «These Defense Department do-gooders and their Pentagon Perfumed Princes are asking our military personnel to go to war and to kill for their country, but they must do it in a nice way. If they show their warrior...
purple adj.— «The Pentagon nickname for the new breed is “purple-suiter,” indicating an officer wears no particular uniform’s bias.» —“Defense News Policy Passes On Unmourned” Los Angeles Times July 16...