This is a section from some design educational material the author is developing for a military design and innovation course. All content reflects the opinion of the author and in no way reflects any endorsement or stated position beyond that of this author. Follow me on Twitter, Medium, LinkedIn and…

I have addressed in past posts and articles that in order to perform design as a process, one might be able to get away without thinking philosophically and focus on following the methods in order to accomplish some design outcome. However, this usually fails… or when the designer does hit…

This is a section from some design educational material the author is developing for a military design and innovation course. All content reflects the opinion of the author and in no way reflects any endorsement or stated position beyond that of this author. Follow me on Twitter, Medium, LinkedIn and…

This is another section out of what will be my new military design book addressing how strategists and planners can use systemic design to change, modify and completely transform their planning process (NATO-OPP, JPP, MDMP, MCPP, and all others) to confront complex security challenges where simply going into the doctrinal…

This is a draft essay currently in progress for other applications and is posted here on Medium to gather feedback. Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn and Medium for updates. In set theory, a singleton is a set with only one member, but as I introduced the notion, the term refers…

This is part of a working draft chapter for a major design book project and a collaboration between the following authors: Anders Westberg (Swedish Army, Police), Brett Bourne (retired Marine Special Operations), Joakim Sturup (Swedish Police), James Wetzel (former Police Chief & Marine Special Operations), and Ben Zweibelson (design theorist…

This is the third section out of a recent writing project that will appear in Medium in three parts. The already published first and second parts explain ‘single-loop thinking’ as well as ‘double-loop thinking’ which are non-reflective, and largely indicative of what most modern military decision-making has operators do. These…

This is a section out of a recent writing project that will appear in Medium in three parts. The already published first part explains ‘single-loop thinking’ which is non-reflective, and largely indicative of what most modern military decision-making has operators do. These treatments are working drafts from an upcoming design…