Concept from Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things: the leadership mode required when the company is fighting for survival, not optimizing for growth. A Peacetime CEO nurtures culture and consensus; a Wartime CEO breaks rules, concentrates decisions, and moves fast because the alternative is death. Horowitz's point is that the same person often has to flip modes, and mistaking the current mode is fatal. Directly relevant to Skcript's distribution fight and FeatureOS churn.