Rethinking our strategies

How is it that the administration hit a home run with their strategy for one department (Homeland whatever) but completely forgot how well that strategy worked when it could've been used in another one (Defense)? Defective Yeti gets it:

The US says it has killed yet another "senior al-Qaida leader". Not bin Laden, someone a few boxes down on the org chart.

You can tell that the folks running this war have spent their entire lives in politics or the military. If they had spent some time in the business world, they'd know that the quickest way to cripple an organization is to increase its ranks of middle-management, not thin them.

Instead of firing laser-guided missiles at these guys, we should be sending them laser pointers and complementary copies of Powerpoint.