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Cultures eventually produce metaphors. General Kellogg noted that
culture involves taking risks while insuring that failures do not occur. Does the
US risk overdependence on speed and prowess at the expense of other factors,
while China tries to defeat the superior with the inferior, using good but not
outstanding technology combined with stratagems? Both concepts lack ways to
block failure in an age of continued fog and friction. We are uncertain what
happens if our risk taking fails. No one wants to talk about that. And, as the
conflict in Iraq extends and diverts funding from the transformation effort, we
may be closer than we think to confronting the risks discussed here.
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