Stanley McChrystal was in the U.S. Army for thirty-four years. He was the commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, trying to defeat Al Qaeda. No small task. His goal was to defeat an agile, de-centralized enemy with all the hulking resources of a bureaucratic, top-down military machine.
Read MoreIn the 1940s, a division inside Lockheed eventually came to be known as the “Skunk Works.” It was in this hulky warehouse just off the main runway at the Burbank Airport where the coolest 21st Century Airplanes were dreamed up, prototyped, and made—midway through the 20th Century.
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