A Great Burning Eye

In the first paragraph of this article I immediately thought of Sauron and the great burning eye. This isn't to say that the Pentagon is an evil place or whatever, but that one of Sauron's weaknesses was his micro management. If he wasn't watching his peeps, they mostly didn't know what to do.

Micromanagement for Global War: "The U.S. Department of Defense is considering providing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) with a real time combat command capability. This would mean that the JCS, led by its chairman, would have a combat command center in the Pentagon where they would use current satellite communications to directly control combat forces anywhere on the planet."