One cause was: military adventures are ruinously expensive.
One cause was: They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.
One cause was: Top/Down command structures mandating and enforcing rotten decisions.
and there were others.
Needless to say, these same causes are prevalent in the US, today. A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run
One cause of Inept Communication is the communicator's inability to use proper English Grammar. A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run
(One of the few sentences in the English language that allow one to give a different regional accent inflection to each word) You can't be me, I'm taken