Maj. Jamie Schwandt’s recent article “The Military Decision-Making Process Is An Inflexible Mess. Here’s How To Fix It” advocates abandoning the Army’s current planning process, but provides no actual ...

Jamie Schwandt suggests that it is the structured nature of MDMP which prevents the modern US military from exploiting the ambiguity that can be found on the battlefield. He feels that the rigidity of ...

While teaching the military decision-making process (MDMP), I found plan­ners struggle with two unglamorous parts of it: risk management and course of action (COA) selection. And I can see why. Risk ...