Feb, 26 (UPI) -- Despite the best of intentions, unless the trajectory of the Department of Government Efficiency is reversed as it descends on the Pentagon, it will not achieve its goals of reforming the system and saving large amounts of money. How do I know? My record of sensing bad outcomes is sadly accurate. In 1967, with two other junior officers summoned back from Vietnam to brief President Lyndon Johnson on the state of the war, I was asked to speak directly and replied in blunt terms