A useful adjective. I run Web development projects for a living, and it occurred to me the other day—looking at a proposed development schedule—that the disaster in Iraq may have given the world of planning and strategy a new term of art, viz., Rumsfeldian:

Rumsfeldian, adj., e.g., a Rumsfeldian plan. 1) Requiring an exquisite arrangement of best-case outcomes to produce success. 2) By extension, doomed to catastrophic failure from an unwillingness to consider worst-case outcomes.

posted by michael  2:02:07 PM  
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