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    Hey Tom,

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
    I don't really care about the buzzwords, fuziness, or even the art of predicting the future. As long as the center-piece of the doctrine is thinking adaptation, the soldiers and the leaders will get it right when the time comes. As soon as someone says doctrine requires rigid application, the soldier and the leader alike get screwed.
    Agreed, and my point would be that Doctrine has to have the central tenet to teach "Why" and not "how". To some extent, "How" does have to be set up as the Thesis, but it must be held to rigour with WHY.

    How something is done, rapidly becomes THE WAY to do things - and that is important IF the context of it being done is very well understood. Context usually provides a very good insight into WHY.

    I know I sound like stuck record on this, but WHY is mostly missing in this stuff. - WHY have a Capstone Concept?
    Last edited by William F. Owen; 10-01-2009 at 09:13 AM.
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