Türk Stratejik Kültüründe Çözümü Çerçevelemek: Katmanlı Bir Harekât Tasarımı Önerisi
Framing the Solution in Turkish Strategic Culture: A Suggestion of Layered Operational Design

Summary/Abstract: The main determinant in terms of changing the means and methods used in war is the "purpose". The aim is a vision of the outcome of the hostility, formed in the mind of the political / military elite at the strategic level and the commander at the operative level. The understanding of the current situation and the desired final state emerges as a result of a process called operational design. Operational issues at the strategic and operative level are complex, blurred and poorly structured. In today's complex operational environment, it is considered that one should not be dependent on a linear perspective and that multi-layered design can provide cognitive flexibility to decision-makers. Pragmatic layered approach is also adopted by strategic culture writers and traces of pragmatic approach to problem solving are frequently encountered in Turkish strategic culture. In this article, the operational design is reconsidered with a layered approach, in a kind of fuzzy logic. Other methods used to improve the operational design were introduced and the shortcomings of the widely applied center of gravity-based mind mapping approach were demonstrated. Instead, a new method of operation design was proposed.

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