I've seen plenty of bureaucratic stupidity and shenanigans in 20 years of active and reserve service. But in my personal experience, corporate America is even

I've seen plenty of bureaucratic stupidity and shenanigans in 20 years of active and reserve service. But in my personal experience, corporate America is even more hidebound, top-down, and unimaginative than everyone in it thinks the military is. Disclaimer: I don't work for a "tech" company; I work in tech for a non-"tech" company. Even in peacetime, the Navy will launch 25 jets off an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego. They will be expected to go practice an opposed strike on a target in a range complex east of Reno, including multiple aerial refuelings and navigating the civilian airspace system. They will be expected to hit their target within seconds of the planned time. And they will be expected to come back and land on an aircraft carrier, at night, on the first pass. And all the details of this kind of operation, from weapons planning to fuel planning to "who talks to whom on what radio net for what purposes" to flat-out "how do we simulate combat without anyone being killed in a midair collision" take place under the aegis of a bunch of twentysomething and thirtysomething junior officers led by a few thirtysomething (or maybe fortysomething) middle managers. Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief. Like a Scrum shop, except the iterations are 24 hours long and the penalty for sloppiness could potentially involve flames, wreckage, and death.