Fortunately for posterity, the British government preserved the Whitehall bunker that served as Churchill’s headquarters exactly as it was at the war’s end – right down to the half-smoked cigar in the ashtray on his desk. Those missiles and the Luftwaffe bombers that preceded them may have forced the prime minister underground, but the reams of data that covered the walls of his bunker and the tangled telephone and telegraph lines snaking through the labyrinthine structure made it clear he never stopped scanning the horizon for new insights and information. I first learned decision-support red teaming at the U.S. Army’s Red Team Leader Course at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and one of the first lessons I was taught there was that you can’t red team in the Führerbunker.
Author: Bryce Hoffman, Contributor, Bryce Hoffman, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/brycehoffman/
Published at: 2025-08-03 20:44:29
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