Maj. Jamie Schwandt’s recent article “The Military Decision-Making Process Is An Inflexible Mess. Here’s How To Fix It” advocates abandoning the Army’s current planning process, but ...

They integrate themselves into their host unit's planning cycle and participate in its MDMP. With or without a liaison, the sustainment unit is responsible for integrating into the customer's and ...

For example, to initiate the MDMP, the operations officer, or S3, ... which allows the staff to update the OPORD to maintain parity between rapid re-planning cycles and doctrinal artifacts.

MDMP makes an admirable attempt to overcome this deficiency by requiring officers to come up with at least two other courses of action, then weigh them against each other before choosing the best one.

But if one is looking to improve the MDMP (or 7 Questions in the British case) it is probably worth examining what makes the OPFOR in both cases slicker than the exercising troops. And here the ...