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Red Team: Success Through Thinking Like the Enemy
Micah Zenko’s Red Team explores the critical role of institutionalized dissent in improving strategic decision-making and security. The text traces the practice from its origins as the Vatican’s "devil’s advocate" to modern applications in the military, intelligence community, and private sector. By employing alternative analysis and vulnerability probes, red teams help organizations identify cognitive biases and structural weaknesses that often lead to failure. Zenko highlights how these independent skeptics simulate adversarial tactics to stress-test everything from airport security to…
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