Ice Cracks: Moving Decision-Making Forward by Planning-to-Plan
Abstract
Planning-to-plan addresses designing and building a planning architecture that facilitates open dialogue, learning, and synthesis within a planning group. Planning architecture augments the already existing doctrinal steps of traditional decision-making processes to provide planners with precedence for the employment of planning resources. By designing an underlying structure to a military planning effort, a planner can shape the nature in which a group reaches decisions. This monograph creates awareness to techniques that seasoned planners use to empower their planning groups. Moreover, it argues that a standard approach to the development of a planning architecture can aid the Army planning community. Research includes interviews, a questionnaire that solicited insights from thirty-six experienced military planners from various nations, and reviews of relevant academic, business, and military planning literature. Many contributions originate from planners who were deployed in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan at the time they provided feedback. Finally, the monograph draws upon two historical examples to illustrate some its concepts: the Falklands Islands War and the 1912 Amundesen-Scott race to the South Pole.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA450568
Entities
People
- David E. Jones
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College