There's a whole big picture; and we could as authors and artists, just describe it.  But we don't necessarily want to do that.

  [Insert exs. like 2008? Surge in Afghanistan]

  Before we were interdisciplinary, we actually weren't able to communicate freely.  Our potential to be inter- was hobbled by censorship, ownership, and the enemy.

  I think it was an entire decade before the public started to hear reports about incapacitating rules creating snafu in war victory.  The contradictions like "surge" and "can't shoot" had jammed the function of even the finest.