The actual situation is just the opposite of the theoretical expectation In the United States, for example, there are 15 1 million full-time civil servants in its population of more than 200 million, or about one in a dozen on average  This vast bureaucracy wastes a third of the defense budget on unhelpful rules and regulations, doing things that need not be done  The Department of Defense Rules and regulations are almost unrivalled in their complexity
There are 800 pages of regulations for military housing and 8,800 pages for civilian military personnel
The gap between theoretical expectations and reality.