There is a great scene in the film version of World War Z where Brad Pitt’s character, Gerry Lane, goes to Jerusalem to learn how the Israelis had the foresight to build large walls around the city to keep the zombie hordes out while no other nation had taken similar measures.  The explanation provided by the Mossad agent he meets is that since the Yom Kippur war, Israeli intelligence had established the equivalent of a devil’s advocate office to reduce the risk that group think wouldn’t lead to very minor but highly critical data being ignored with resulting major impacts to the country’s security. Continue reading →