When we examine 5-yr plans and strategic street maps in different nations, they often suggest lots more there than they do right here at home. Especially on the subject of our navy street maps and energy factor bulleted schedule object focus. Such strategic plans appearance fantastic on paper, possibly scare the crap out of our enemies or capacity adversaries, however when they by no means come to fruition, and get re-written every 12 months we chance becoming the "Paper Tiger" that many different countries have known as us in the past. Let's speak.
There is a very interesting YouTube Video titled; "Conceptual Spiral Presentation with the aid of John Boyd 6," posted by Abhilash Nambiar. And on this video, audio presentation of a Colonel Boyd lecture on management, he made point of explaining to the target market what happened to him at the Pentagon once they asked him to offer enter for a Road Map for the Future technological goals of the USAF.
Now then, in his Maverick fashion, he declared that "the primary factor we want to do is do away with a majority of these roadmaps," reasoning that they have been now not helping us get higher or achieve our desires as every 12 months each department just tacked on more things, as though it turned into an annual responsibility to position something down to reveal that they had been making progress - regrettably they weren't - and so he said; "why?" which of path become by no means requested due to the hierarchical authority structure within the Pentagon.
Today, people complain approximately legacy applications consuming up price range monies and pie inside the sky pipe goals like "Star Wars" budgeting for 100s of billions of dollars, a whole lot of it black budget, by no means to any avail - that we recognize about (smile). In essence he stated they were not doing planning with their so-called roadmaps, at least again then, and I say that because I see using road maps is even greater alive and well today, than it was lower back then.
Now then, in Robert Gate's memoirs he mentions how massive scale initiatives are hard because they could last via a couple of management and thus, making plans may be very tough, and to make sure our military has what it desires those big scale applications want to be absolutely funded in advance. I'd also say there desires to be some "slop" inside the contracts because of unexpected costs, new undertaking requirements, new technologies, function creep, and so on, still, the defense contractors want to be conscious that it's miles unacceptable to take gain of that slop too early or too frequently otherwise the value overruns will kill the mission within the subsequent management or on the mid-time period converting of the shield in the US Congress.
In many regards a whole lot of what the navy does to ensure that those initiatives are completed is to throw them into the black challenge budget. Not that all people appears so as to preserve a secret these days, but it does make sure the project will move in advance, as a minimum thru the prototype R&D phase. Then it will be bought to Congress, or now not, that's more frequently the case and probable might be well into the destiny thinking about the socialist dying from populist politics and sophistication warfare. Example: the ones popular stickers inside the 70s and 80s which examine "What if the Air Force needed to have a bake sale to shop for their next bomber?"
Okay so, I am not pronouncing that Road Maps are the problem, it is the manner we use them that sucks. Colonel Boyd became proper approximately that, and it's even worse nowadays. Yes, I understand the announcing; "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail" however I could publish to you that if you don't appreciate your planning, or care to gain whatever then you are kidding yourself and wasting it slow. In the case of the navy you're risking our national safety, and it's NOT okay. Please recollect all this and assume
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