Military Thinking

Military thinking is a hybrid thought process that blends critical thinking skills and warfighting doctrine into a unified and focused solution.

Decision making in a military context is the ability to choose which projections or solutions would be best implemented to accomplish mission success.

The decision-making can be generalized into two categories:

1. Analytical decision-making approach 
2. Intuitive decision-making approach 

Analytical decision making is an approach used to analyze a dilemma and determine the best solution. The problem solver, or team of problem solvers, systematically employ a process that consists of the following actions: 

• Carefully taking a problem apart
• Collecting a testing the information required for the problem or task
• Conducting a comparison of the solutions or options 
• Selecting an alternative, which should preferably be the best solution.