Rarely do we see creativity as a strategic competence or, in the case of the CIA and the military, a strategic weapon.

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It is hard to imagine that McChrystal's decision to open his doors to Rolling Stone was a calculated move to blow the lid off of the mirage of strategic competence surrounding the "good war" in Afghanistan.

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It was a brilliant strategic use of a key creative competence, framing.

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