military decision-making

Sound and effective decisions, supported by reliable data, usually determines military operational success. Recent rapid advances in electronic instrumentation, equipment sensors, digital storage, and communication systems have generated large amounts of data. This deluge of digitized information provides military leaders innumerable data mining opportunities to extract hidden patterns in a wide diversity of situations.

This is a draft chapter from a military design book project that the author is working on pursuant to his doctoral degree completion.

How operational planners applied military design to a wicked problem set in Afghanistan.