or think of it this way: while a large decentralized group of people can produce a sort of intelligence, as in open-source etc, a large group of people organized hierarchically, characterized by elaborate structures of subordination is, literally, an inanimate object. it is incapable of making decisions and it is incapable of telling the truth: it is incapable of making decisions precisely because it is incapable of telling the truth: it floats into a world of delusion and ceases to act intentionally in this world at all; it does not respond to stimuli. if you poke it in the foot, the message might reach the brain in some distorted form after a period of decades. you might as well ask the actual concrete out of which the pentagon is contructed for a strategy as address such questions to a military hierarchy the size of the us's.