Extremely good point.
The Estimate is indeed a process - and a deeply flawed one, if you mean the 7Qs - but that's another story. The point is that a process like that is actually a structured enquiry, on which to derive information to solve a problem, so truth is pretty much sacred.
Things like Manoeuvre Warfare, Complex War fighting, 4GW and Hybrid Threats, almost always take highly contestable set of facts or even some outright invention, and say "this is the problem" so what you need is my solution and it looks like this. Names get attached and reputations follow.
Because the facts have near enough been invented in the context of the desired problem, there is always tears before bed time, when it is realised that the invented facts are actually the problem, and not the problem folks wanted to solve. See me, for a slightly better explanation or context.
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