It wasn’t difficult to construct a single slide brief and script. Aenid and he used the language they originally had in their separate pieces. After several electronic exchanges of edits. Aenid and Marlow agreed on the final-final and sent it off to the CO with emailed carbon copies to the intervening layers of bosses.

While he and Aenid walked in the dusky light out to their cars at the edge of the near empty parking lot, they listened keenly for the screams they knew would be coming from the overlooked and under-consulted flapper layers of bosses between them and the CO in the Center’s bureaucracy.

Before they left for the day, they sent CYA copies of what was approved and drafted to tech expert Karen as an initial offer to negotiate some compromise language. Conserve your enemies was one of Adm. Bobby Ray Inman’s 30 maxims for young Naval Intelligence officers.

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