In order to combat Al-Qaeda in Iraq in the first decade of the twenty-first century, General Stanley McChrystal had to morph the leadership structure from a traditional “command” to a “command of teams” and finally to a “team of teams.” It was only as the different special forces groups, intelligence agencies and military units learned to work as partners with high degrees of trust and shared purpose that they were able to create the adaptable structure and “shared consciousness” that enabled a team of teams to finally succeed where a highly trained, richly resourced and exceedingly
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