Systemic Failures, Shiny Shortcuts, and Other Delusions
Happy Wednesday!
This weekend is the D-Day anniversary, and I’ve been thinking about the training nobody talks about. Three weeks before D-Day, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division ran a practice landing at Slapton Sands in the UK. German E-boats found the convoy. By dawn, 749 Americans were dead. Most of them before they ev…
