"It confers the tactician the rationale to explode on a culprit after repeated offenses of an unknown expectation, conferring advantage and leverage in current and future negotiations."

What?? I hope you...

"Sometimes it takes someone who plays Devil's Advocate, who challenges, who dictates, who is single-minded, whose convictions are unshakeable".

I am glad you used the word "sometimes". I know a person...

"If that is true, then we then need secure development environments and treat them like production servers".

Yes and no. If you are off shoring or have a third party develop...