For a while now we’ve been hearing, ad infinitum, “Diversity is our greatest strength!”, a statement offered with no supporting evidence and to be accepted without question. For most of us it’s just another slightly fatuous mantra, to be tolerated while we go about our business as normal. Unfortunately some VSOs act as if they genuinely believe it. We can only hope that our enemies don’t prioritise more traditional greatest strengths, like uncompromising selection and training, superior equipment, and overwhelming firepower. Things that have previously proven quite handy when it comes to winning wars.