What's your 10th Man Theory? Why?& How did your research go?
Mar 20, 2018 1:09:32 GMT
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Post by painteddesert on Mar 20, 2018 1:09:32 GMT
What’s your ‘10th Man’ Theory?
I was recently watching the mediocre movie World War Z starring Brad Pitt as the protagonist. It's a zombie-action-horror type movie. Partway through the film, it transpires that unlike most countries of the world, Israel appeared to have some advance knowledge of the impending zombie apocalypse and was thus better prepared. Brad Pitt's character makes his way to Jerusalem in order to find out how/where Israeli intelligence got their information. He is told by the Israeli agent that they had intercepted some communication from India saying their military was battling some 'zombies', and following the 10th man principle, he was assigned to research that lead and found it to be true. He explained the 10th Man Principle in the following way “If nine of us look at the same information and arrive at the same conclusion, it’s the duty of the tenth man to disagree’.
Like others who saw the movie or read the book it was based on, I wondered if this unusual and quite astute principle is actually practised in the Israeli military/intelligence. And it turns out, it is. Although not actually referred to as ‘the 10th Man’. According to Yosef Kupperwasser, who used to head the Research Division of the Israeli Defense Forces.
“The devil’s advocate office ensures that AMAN’s intelligence assessments are creative and do not fall prey to group think. The office regularly criticizes products coming from the analysis and production divisions, and writes opinion papers that counter these departments’ assessments. The staff in the devil’s advocate office is made up of extremely experienced and talented officers who are known to have a creative, “outside the box” way of thinking. Perhaps as important, they are highly regarded by the analysts.”
I was wondering how this principle may come in handy in trying to track down GSK. Although I don’t doubt that there has been plenty of lateral thinking used to try and crack this case - after so many years, it’s clear the ‘right’ line of thinking still eludes le.
Then I thought - Well there’s probably a fair amount of people online who have an usual theory and have done a little research in that direction. As this is the largest earons gsk centred board, there are likely to be a few ‘10th men’ (or women) around.
So, let’s hear your unusual take on this case. What is your bizarre and eccentric take on the information we have all looked at? Tell us why and where your research led you.
Thanks
I was recently watching the mediocre movie World War Z starring Brad Pitt as the protagonist. It's a zombie-action-horror type movie. Partway through the film, it transpires that unlike most countries of the world, Israel appeared to have some advance knowledge of the impending zombie apocalypse and was thus better prepared. Brad Pitt's character makes his way to Jerusalem in order to find out how/where Israeli intelligence got their information. He is told by the Israeli agent that they had intercepted some communication from India saying their military was battling some 'zombies', and following the 10th man principle, he was assigned to research that lead and found it to be true. He explained the 10th Man Principle in the following way “If nine of us look at the same information and arrive at the same conclusion, it’s the duty of the tenth man to disagree’.
Like others who saw the movie or read the book it was based on, I wondered if this unusual and quite astute principle is actually practised in the Israeli military/intelligence. And it turns out, it is. Although not actually referred to as ‘the 10th Man’. According to Yosef Kupperwasser, who used to head the Research Division of the Israeli Defense Forces.
“The devil’s advocate office ensures that AMAN’s intelligence assessments are creative and do not fall prey to group think. The office regularly criticizes products coming from the analysis and production divisions, and writes opinion papers that counter these departments’ assessments. The staff in the devil’s advocate office is made up of extremely experienced and talented officers who are known to have a creative, “outside the box” way of thinking. Perhaps as important, they are highly regarded by the analysts.”
I was wondering how this principle may come in handy in trying to track down GSK. Although I don’t doubt that there has been plenty of lateral thinking used to try and crack this case - after so many years, it’s clear the ‘right’ line of thinking still eludes le.
Then I thought - Well there’s probably a fair amount of people online who have an usual theory and have done a little research in that direction. As this is the largest earons gsk centred board, there are likely to be a few ‘10th men’ (or women) around.
So, let’s hear your unusual take on this case. What is your bizarre and eccentric take on the information we have all looked at? Tell us why and where your research led you.
Thanks
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