This sat in my drafts for a couple years. ===== I had a flippant reply to this tweet. And then I spiraled thinking about it. By the end of ice ages, humanity hunted large mammals like mammoths to extinction. We also eliminated giant sloths, sabertooth tigers, among others. Hunting these creatures required cooperation, coordination, planning,…
For thirty years I have liked Colin Powell for his level headedness. I was disappointed in his United Nations speech about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But, he has seemed pretty level headed and effective at getting things done. No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. This battle plan quote is one…