Redouble Our Whole Of Government Efforts To Fix Perfect Storm Of Strategy Goobledygook!
By Mark Cancian and Matthew Cancian on December 01, 2017 at 11:38 AM
The time of strategy reviews is upon us, and soon the Trump administration will publish both a National Security Strategy and a National Defense Strategy. Meanwhile, tank tanks and academia are giving advice from the sidelines. But strategies need to be clear to be meaningful. In constructing this wave of strategy documents, writers need to eliminate phrases that produce the appearance of meaning without the substance. In academia and the think tank world, where we work, such phrases are annoying, but in government documents they can affect the fate of the nation. So with the intent of clarifying meaning and sharpening discussions, we identify some of these meaningless phrases and propose ways to eliminate them. We have gone light on identifying actual examples because we don’t want to embarrass specific individuals; and, nostra culpa, we too have been guilty of using them when we shirked the work of making difficult choices or coming up with new ideas.
https://breakingdefense.com/2017/12/redouble-our-whole-of-government-efforts-to-fix-perfect-storm-of-strategy-goobledygook/
