Interoperability a la Curtis LeMay
by Alex Evans | Nov 5, 2007
The National Review’s blog has this glorious tale of inter-agency cooperation as practised by the legendary USAF General, Curtis LeMay:
He was being briefed about a war plan of some sort and an air intelligence officer was giving him the lowdown on the Soviets, saying “the enemy” would do this and “the enemy” would do that.
Halfway through the briefing, LeMay held up his hand and stopped the briefer, took his omnipresent cigar out of his mouth, and said, “Let’s get one thing straight: The Soviets are our adversary. Our enemy is the Navy. Proceed.”
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Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
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