Jacobs' Heather Wishart interviews Gen. McChrystal on teams and innovation:
I think our mindset should often be that while we don’t know what we’re going to face, we’re going to develop a team that is really good and an industrial base that is fast. We are going to figure it out as it goes, and we’re going to build to need then. Now, that’s terrifying.
On military acquisition:
The mine-resistant vehicles were a classic case; they didn’t exist at all in the US inventory; we produced thousands of them. [after the war started]