[lifeisstillgood]

Well, how can we get the benefit of wars without the obvious downsides?

Fast feedback loops, obvious win / lose results (a battle takes a few hours, you are dead or not).

Randomly fire members of upper management (equivalent of organisational change by enemy sniper action)?

[esyir]

The research end wasn't really the section getting hit by sniper fire, so that bit probably won't fly.