Recommended Innovation Articles (and Commentary) 12: ‘Types and Forms of Emergence’ by Jochen Fromm (no pay wall!)
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This article and the medium blog commentary is on emergence. If there is a single concept more foundational to complex security contexts, and also the one concept most lacking in modern military decision-making, strategy and campaign design (and also most misunderstood by the military)- it is emergence. Everything we do in our decision-making methodologies such as the Joint Planning Process, Campaign planning, and operational plans (and all service related or NATO variations) is linear-causal, systematic and reverse-engineered with the ends-ways-means configuration. We completely ignore emergence because the ‘problem-solution’ construct that stems from ancient Greek philosophy (and…
