Design, Planning, and Problem Solving

Both football and war require prudent and detailed planning to attain success. Distinct from the rigid step-by-step approach of the joint planning process and service equivalents, design is a method to help planners and commanders think about and identify the problem in front of them before they begin developing a solution. Design in its most basic form is describing the current environment, the desired environment, and then figuring out the problem, or what is preventing a command from getting from the current conditions to the desired conditions.