Planning is such an important part of any process. It's no fun and nobody likes to do it, particularly when it involves looking far into that nebulous, intangible place called 'the future.' In organizations as widely diverse as the Department of Defense and the U.S. Army, without planning you are destined to follow the courses of the loudest or most influential voices. In an environment driven by the resources of manpower, money and time, volume and influence carry loud voices. And those voices become screams the closer to program implementation and the wider the political and industrial support they have enlisted. All too often, it seems that a new piece of equipment hits the field and we look back and ask ourselves, 'How did that happen. What was the requirement'.
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