What Jeff Baxter, guitarist with the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, brought to his later career in national security was creativity and a fresh set of eyes. When invited to play the bad guy in a war game against the U.S., he took out the ranking officer on the mission by using Photoshop to send "disfigured" pictures of participants to their spouses. A colonel was so outraged, he actually took a swing at Baxter and at that point the officer was out.
As the war game went on, he destroyed the oil in the Middle Eastern country he was representing and at that point the Japanese threatened to pull out of U.S. Treasuries. Game over.
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