This conceptual process feeds on denial and breeds complacency. It handicaps efforts to integrate fundamentally different strategic postures capable of providing the requisite strategic variety for an adequate response. Whether amongst colleagues, or through media presentations, or even in the privacy of one's own thoughts, there is usually a strong investment in a particular posture at a particular time. This posture calls for justification and rationalization. It must be defended against challenges from alternative postures.
Dissonant perspectives are necessarily difficult to tolerate.
Reference to dissident perspectives is effectively excluded from the record in the name of consensus. The agreed strategy denies its own status as a compromise and obscures the dynamic context from which it was born. The dissident perspectives do not however disappear. They breed alternative strategies, or divert resources and political will so as to undermine what is promulgated as a global strategy.