The organization was created to solve a problem that didn’t exist. It was set up without obtaining buy-in from any of the organizations affected by its existence. It was run by sycophants who enabled an increasingly unstable boss to destroy everything. This bureaucratic boondoggle was the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the chronicler of its dysfunction was General Walter Warlimont, Deputy Chief of Operations. Warlimont reported to General Alfred Jodl, who reported to General Wilhelm Keitel, who reported to the boss, Adolf Hitler.