Tom Peters reports

the current New Yorker has a brilliantly reported, eye-popping piece, "Battle Lessons: What the Generals Don't Know." It's a report on the way in which junior officers in Iraq are using the Web to teach each other—in real time—the tricks of survival in modern urban warfare. The boomer senior leaders are not the Web fiends the Gen-X junior officers are; moreover the claim is made (accurately, I think) that Gen-X officers are directionally less hierarchical than their boomer bosses—and more inclined to figure things out for themselves regardless of received doctrine.