CRITICAL THINKING IN THE MILITARY DECISION - MAKING PROCESS
CRITICAL THINKING IN THE MILITARY DECISION - MAKING PROCESS

Summary/Abstract: Romanian Naval Forces are proud to be a rational and hierarchical organization, in which critical thinking is encouraged. More than that, it is expected that officers to respond promptly to all the command exercise challenges. Whether we are talking about making decisions in a short or long period of time, the commanding officers must possess the critical thinking skills whereby the solution found to be the most effective. Therefore, the lack of critical thinking of the commander in the decision-making process (MDMP) is an important failure factor at all levels, whether strategic, operational or tactical. This is why it is necessary to analyse the impact of critical thinking on intuitive and analytical decisions, to determine and demonstrate certain barriers that threaten critical thinking as well as to propose practical ways of using critical thinking in the decision making process. This paperwork comes to assist officers who will be in charge of certain command positions or will participate in operations planning groups and, implicitly, will have an important role in the decision-making process.

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