Some Thoughts on Operational Planning

By Dr Mark A Barton

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With a laudable desire for linguistic clarity worthy of David Watkin Waters, Dr Mark Barton considers the language barrier impacting the cultivation of Joint and Service-wide consensus of concept meaning in operational planning. A 10 minute read.

This article offers up five short simple thoughts that the author has had while being involved in various parts of operational planning; while not being a warfare officer and therefore originating from outside the usual group think. The author’s experience includes contributing to the current Fighting Instructions on Operational Planning, being involved in the development of the module for ICSC(M) and conducting operational planning including for an EU mission, Task Force Helmand and RN Task Groups. To provide clarity, when talking about planning for operations he is largely talking about the…

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