Quote Originally Posted by combatanalytics View Post

On a note of caution, I would not combine the obvious short comings of Effects Based Operations (EBO) as a short coming of using a systematic, well defined, repeatable, and well understood assessment process to help drive counter insurgency operations. FM 3-24, in order to be a good document to truly help commanders and staffs in the counter insurgency fight, needs a well understood, documented, and step-by-step assessment process to help military organizations track their progress, determine their successes, target their shortcomings, in order to provide counter insurgency operations a compass towards successful conclusion.
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Although this may be a way of approaching it and thats always a good starting point it's also important to realize that the biggest issue with any such directive applications is the ability to ensure that those in command who might not " get it " when it comes to sometimes the circumstances allow for nothing more concrete than adhoc and changing approaches, don't use said app to avoid doing exactly that.

It's a hard balance to achieve