Life During Wartime
Anyone who's worked in a dysfunctional organization can sympathize:
"Organizations that succeed -- especially in wartime -- do so by ensuring that bad news gets to the top. Eisenhower made a big point of that in World War Two. The Vietnamese made a big point of it when they were fighting us. The suppression of bad news and the concealment of failure are the hallmarks of dysfunctional organizations."
If I don't know about a problem, I can't fix it.