Breaking Through the Echo Chamber: Sixteen Years of Comprehensive Defense Analysis

By Robbin Laird Sixteen years ago, we launched Second Line of Defense with General Patton’s warning that “if everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking” wasn’t philosophical wisdom for it is operational necessity. When defense establishments fall into intellectual lockstep, people die. When military leaders embrace comfortable assumptions rather than uncomfortable realities, they … Continue reading Breaking Through the Echo Chamber: Sixteen Years of Comprehensive Defense Analysis