This has been an interesting series to write. The intent was always to look at the decision making functions within the playbook. Some would call that game planning, and that’s true. Planning is a part of life, but plans formed in a vacuum tend to fall apart under the forces of reality. What we looked at over the series was the scope of strategic and tactical planning at a ‘mid-altitude’ range.
The old project management adage of; “first write the plan, execute the plan, know when to stop” fits here. There are variations out there, but essentially we arrive at a spot in this discussion where the unpredictable variable that always trips up folks is that “no plan survives contact with the enemy”.