04/27/2015
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"I think literally a structure that builds competition and contrarianism into the system might be salutary."
"I love the idea of a red team in the Pentagon or perhaps in the National Security Council whose job it is to contest the conventional wisdom."
"if you have a large, cumbersome, slow structure, you will have cumbersome, slow, consensus-driven, and ultimately unsatisfactory policy or strategy"
"consensus is the enemy. You cannot adapt if you have a consensus-based process"