The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.
Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.
My experience has been that military assessments on 'how goes the war' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.
I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.
