Precision fires are a competitive advantage. Standoff is not a strategy. When your preferred method of war becomes too scarce to use freely, the question is not what is the best munition.
#planning #fires #missiles #strategy #doctrineanddisorder
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/the-magazi...
Program managers are told to go faster without being given the authority to do it.
Speed is not a task. It is a decision made at the level that controls requirements and funding.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/stop-askin...
#DefenseAcquisition #DoD #Leadership
“Average fleet age” sounds precise. It isn’t.
The argument confuses a budgeting outcome with a readiness problem.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/the-air-fo...
#Defense #Airpower #Acquisition
Blaming ROE is usually a sign the problem is somewhere else.
ROE preserve legitimacy, which is combat power over time.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/blaming-th...
#Military #Leadership #Strategy
This article was a delightful read. While AUSA is not typically known for their peer-reviewed pieces, it is evident that this officer has no peers. A true army of one.
#talentmanagement #armyofone #wtf
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Radars are powerful. They are also loud.
Missile defense depends on sensors that are often the easiest thing on the battlefield to find. Protection is essential!
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/protection...
#MissileDefense #Warfare
The military does not lack talent. It struggles to move it.
We rotate people on schedule, not on demand. Skill builds just as the system transfers it.
Stability is treated as stagnation.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/talent-man...
#TalentManagement #MilitaryLeadership #DoctrineAndDisorder
Military planning is not about slides. It is about forcing clarity: what matters, when a decision must be made - Problem Solving!
The logic translates cleanly to business.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/campaignin...
#Leadership #Strategy #DecisionMaking
Most wargames fail because they try to win the war in a classroom.
If it feels like competition, something is wrong.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/wargaming-...
#MilitaryPlanning #Wargaming #MissionCommand
Risk rarely disappears. It just gets renamed and briefed.
Planning tools describe tradeoffs. They do not absorb consequences. Someone still chooses, and someone still owns what follows.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/understand...
#military #planning #leadership
New START didn’t prevent competition. It constrained how badly misinterpretation could spiral when trust thinned.
We are about to find out what replaces structure when transparency runs out.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
#NuclearPolicy #Deterrence #ArmsControl
Most staffs do not fail because they lack data.
They fail because they never decided what mattered.
Decision advantage comes from designing decision points early, then collecting only what collapses those decisions.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/decision-p...
Most command posts confuse motion with judgment.
If planning did not specify the choice that matters, execution fills the gap with observation.
Decision support exists to narrow options, not decorate awareness.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/decision-s...
#military #planning #command
Most plans fail long before execution.
Not because forces or timelines were wrong, but because an assumption quietly became a fact.
Assumptions are dependencies. If they endure, they require branches, not hope.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/assumption...
#planning #decisionmaking #staffwork
The loudest claims about the 8(a) program collapse under basic math.
It is statutory, tightly governed, and operationally useful. It exists because speed, negotiation, and industrial depth matter more than slogans.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/what-the-s...
#DoD #Acquisition #8a
Most plans don’t fail because they’re infeasible. They fail because no one agreed on what actually mattered.
Evaluation criteria force that agreement early.
That clarity is what decisions rest on.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/evaluation...
#militaryplanning #staffwork #decisionmaking
Planning fails all the time.
Not because of the slides. Not because of the process.
Because planning is a human problem.
Why planning exists, and why this series does too.
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/planning-i...
#Planning #Military #Command #Leadership #DoctrineAndDisorder
The NDAA passed. The budget didn’t.
This piece breaks down:
• Authorization vs appropriation
• Why shutdowns still happen
• Where PPBE fits in the mess
🔗 doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/the-ndaa-d...
#DefensePolicy #NDAA #PPBE #DoD #NationalSecurity #PublicFinance
If you consider yourself a defense innovator and still spend most of your time talking about drones, you’re not.
Drones are not innovation. They are a mature capability.
Innovation starts where trends end and new problems begin.
#DefenseInnovation #MilitaryThought #FutureWarfare
🎄 ’Twas the night before Christmas… and not a CONOP in sight.
👉 doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/twas-the-n...
#DoctrineAndDisorder #StaffLife #PlanningProblems #ChristmasAtThePentagon #Satire
🎄 New on Doctrine & Disorder
What Santa’s Workshop can teach us about production, discipline, and why process should serve people—not replace them.
👉 doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/what-santa...
#DoctrineAndDisorder #DefenseReform #Acquisition #Leadership #Christmas
Everyone says we need more lethality.
Almost no one can explain what that actually means.
New post 👇
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/lethality-...
#DoctrineAndDisorder #DefensePolicy #Lethality #MilitaryReform #NatSec
Make sure you get your "Magic: The Satellite" trading cards at your nearest USSF BX.
And they wonder why people don't take them seriously.
#USSF #Space #Spaceforce #Pentagon #MilitaryHumor
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Your NATSEC horoscope:
• Army — You will discover a new requirement
• Navy — Your program will be 4 years late
• Air Force — Someone said “JADC2” again
• Space Force — Stop making everything a constellation
• DoD — Blame the Continuing Resolution
#DoD #MilitaryHumor #DefenseTwitter #StrategySatire
Continuing Resolutions aren’t a nuisance—they’re strategic self-sabotage.
We plan like a superpower but fund like a failing startup.
New Doctrine & Disorder piece:
#Defense #Acquisitions #NatSec #PPBE #Policy #Military
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/continuing...
Reform isn’t magic.
Acquisitions, planning, and running the DoD aren’t “broken” — they’re complex.
We keep demanding predictable outcomes from a fundamentally unpredictable environment, then act shocked when the system behaves like… a complex system.
#DoD #Acquisition #NatSec #Complexity
We say we want speed, innovation, and “transformation.”
But half the time, the DoD isn’t solving problems — it’s perfecting the ritual of looking like it is.
Read it here:
doctrineanddisorder.substack.com/p/when-the-p...
#DoD #Acquisition #Strategy #Leadership #PPBE #JCIDS #MissionCommand
Wherever you are today - home, on duty, or somewhere between - thanks for everything you do to keep the force, the mission, and the system moving forward.
Wishing everyone a calm day, and at least one decision that doesn’t require a meeting.
#milTwitter #DoD #PentagonLife #DoctrineAndDisorder
We’re great at collecting “lessons.”
We’re terrible at figuring out which ones matter.
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#Leadership #Military #DoD #Strategy #Acquisitions #LessonsLearned #DoctrineAndDisorder #DoD #milTwitter #strategy #lessonslearned
The Emerald Dome: Oz’s Most Expensive Way to Not Stop a Witch
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#EmeraldDome #DoctrineAndDisorder #AcquisitionHumor #DefenseTech #MilitaryHumor #PentagonProblems #ProgramManagement #BudgetBoondoggle #OversightFailure #WickedThreats #DefenseAcquisition