Well, when it’s only robots doing the killing and getting killed, we can let IT managers run the wars. On meetings, it sounds like a traditional hierarchical m

Well, when it’s only robots doing the killing and getting killed, we can let IT managers run the wars. On meetings, it sounds like a traditional hierarchical mgmt structure. Briefers are a subset of the staff. If members of the staff are unable to get their material or point of view into the powerpoint then they aren’t effective at their jobs or their minority view is not of interest to the majority. That’s where politics and persuasion become important and if you aren’t any good at it you shouldn’t be there. What makes large acquisitions unmanageable is probably feature creep, and software people should certainly be able to relate to that. Imagine every minority view getting their say on every program. We can’t afford ($) that. IMO, the military is not heirarchical enough. The Navy has ~230 Admirals and only some 490 active/reserve ships.