In the Mind of the Enemy: Psychology, #Wargames, and the Duel

Very interesting article - and makes some great points. I really liked this paragraph - so very very true. JOPP places so much on getting there it loses factor on what the enemy is doing and what really needs to get there first to fight or to act based off an enemy action. It is a process... as is GFM in asking for forces..

"Take, for example, the summary image of the US Department of Defence Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP) (Fig 1).[4] Any real sense of the adversary and the duel are absent, lost in the sheer process of making a plan. The eighteen principles and considerations of operational planning presented by NATO joint doctrine include such topics as ‘gender perspectives,’ but make no mention of the enemy.[5] In the Australian Defence Force’s Joint Mission Appreciation Process (JMAP) the adversary is tucked away within ‘threat analysis,’ a subset of the ‘Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment’ which is explicitly conducted by J2 intelligence experts separate to the JMAP itself.[6] The profound idea of a ‘battle of force and will’ is lost in a confounding maze of flow charts, process tables and abbreviations."