Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)

Military Decisions Making Process

Commanders are overall responsible for the mission as subordinate units and subordinate staffs, we are responsible for being Commander success. As a staff member and subordinate unit assigned to contribute to many factors in the planning process. These basic steps are receipt of mission, mission analysis, course of action development, course of action development (war games), course of action comparison, course of action approval, orders production, and execution assessment. Military Decisions Making Process (MDMP) is a tool to help solve issues to ensure that issues being solved do not create or cause more problems.

Facts of the MDMP

Within this essay I will be discussing the Military Decision Making process

During the operation planning the MDMP will send down at a minimum three Warning Order (WARNO) or critical information during the planning process to get lower or subordinate moving. When looking at the goals of the operation the last step in the TLP’s is important to the operation of the subordinate units when looking at meeting the Commander intent and understanding the Commander intent. Supervise and refine gives the subordinate units with ample time to adjust before committing to the operation and not meeting the vision of the

When Commanders initiate the original Warning Order (WARNO) and time lines for the mission it was always based on a 24 or 48-hour time line. This gave us time to receive the mission, brief back the understanding of the operation using the troop leading procedure (TLP), issue are warning order to are soldiers, and make a tentative plan. During the tentative plan is also the time you start initiating necessary movement which just entitled inventory of equipment on hand so as to take in account of equipment needed applying the three forth preparation, one third planning rule. This helps when briefing higher with issues and concerns during supervise and refine phases of the operation and gives you more time to obtain equipment or personnel from other organization prior to completing the plan. These are important steps which is your first steps of the operation as you are working in a forward movement while information is flowing down to the battalion and company level from higher as step 3 through step 5 from the MDMP are being accomplished. As parallel planning is happening through your own mission as it is preparing you with more knowledge of the operation as reconnaissance information of your area of operation is being disseminated down to lower. Commanders at the battalion levels finally get the last piece of the puzzle in step 7 in the MDMP is when the combined arms rehearsals are