Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

Roger Burton West schrieb:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:16:05PM -0800, John Atkinson 
> >a bunch of weapons programs that start to resemble
> >Nazi Germany's approach to standardization and
> >simplification in weaponry.
> 
> Heh. A friend of mine's former Civil Service (UK) and a 
> keen amateur historian; he reckons that one of the major 
> advantages the Allies had during WW2 was the committee 
> system. If Hitler saw a flashy demo, he could say "this 
> project has Utmost Top Priority" - and often did, so 
> lots of projects had it. If someone in the UK saw a 
> flashy demo, he still had to get it past the rest of the committee, 

Not only Hitler. Goering and Udet also had a penchant for disastrous 
decisions, in this case concerning the Luftwaffe. 
Don't know about the committee system as such, but I too, reckon that 
an important advantage a democracy has over a dictatorship is freedom 
of opinion. Free discussion tends to shoot down any hare-brained ideas 
before they get too out-of-hand. 

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