military design

Today, there might be few words as overused and fraught with multiple disciplines claiming ownership as the term ‘design’ and associated ‘design thinking’, ‘design practice’ and other variations. ‘Design’ has become one of the buzzwords along with ‘synergy’, ‘innovation’, ‘machine learning’ and ‘augmented intelligence’ within defense circles, but of all of these terms it seems that ‘design’ is the most debated and convoluted.

Though newly arrived in Army doctrine, the concept of operational design finds precedent in American military history.

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