Sometimes Waiting is the Best Strategy

Art has an excellent post up discussing the counter-intuitive trade-offs created by rapid innovation.

Sometimes waiting (and investing) is better than charging ahead, using up all of your cash on old, dumb, slow methods that you know will be a day late and a dollar short.

Go read it. It’s worth your time.

DoD Transitions During Wartime

CSM offers a solid overview of the current work being done to ensure a smooth transition in Jan 2009.

Lots of people can tell you why nothing will change, and will dismiss calls like this for keeping Gates on as SECDEF as naive dreams.

But such extrapolations based on the past won’t help us see if and when a change comes.

And so we beat on, boats against the current…