Introducing Silent Transformation in Military Affairs: An Indirect Strategy of ‘Letting Happen’
This is an excerpt from a design monograph that addresses design, NATO operational planning and Joint planning methodologies (NATO-OPP, JPP, and various service-specific deviations therein). This monograph is pending publication and was produced through the Joint Special Operations University where the author is a design educator (contractor) for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The title of the monograph is: “Disrupting Modern Military Decision-Making: Deconstructing Institutionalized Rituals through Design Synthesis.” (Follow Ben Zweibelson at Medium to see more on strategic design, war theory, operational planning and military philosophy).
Complexity theorists, systems theorists, sociologists as well as organizational theorists have since the 1970s explored and proposed an ever-increasing range of strategic alternatives that break decisively with the traditional Western approach to strategy and complex human affairs. Most all security affairs, national strategic themes, and overarching war paradigms of western industrialized (and those still developing) nations subscribe to a natural order of war based upon the theories and models of Carl von Clausewitz, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alfred Mahan, Gerhard Scharnhorst, Giulio Douhet, Basil H. Liddell Hart, and later still Aleksandr…
