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“More often than not, they accomplished very little because they were so often run by committees. To make matters worse, the committees typically contained inexperienced or mediocre officers, all of whom had an equal vote regardless of how much or how little they understood the particular issue or operation. This produced not the wisdom of crowds but the idiocy of mobs.”
― James Lawler, Living Lies: A Novel of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program