Bureaucracy
A way of running large organizations through written rules, documentation, and a hierarchy of offices; the word is also used critically to describe rigid, procedure-bound administration.
In 1944, the OSS (CIA's predecessor) published a sabotage manual: "do everything through channels," "give long speeches," "hold meetings during critical work," "require three approvals for one person's job." These enemy-sabotage tactics eerily resemble modern bureaucracy.
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