By First Lieutenant Max Steinbach and First Lieutenant Collin Bergstrom, United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Max Steinbach is a Marine infantry officer serving as the company executive officer for Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines. First Lieutenant Collin Bergstrom is a Marine infantry officer and a rifle platoon commander in the same company. The two of them built Scheme O, a planning tool for small-unit leaders, and they disclose that interest at the end of this article. Abstract Over the past two years the United States and its allies have pushed artificial intelligence into the planning and targeting work of combatant commands and alliance headquarters. Four echelons down, in the company office where plans become action, most leaders are still working with tools that were never built for the job. This article argues that what slows planning at that level is not a shortage of decision making but hours of mechanical labor. To set the scene, it is late in the company office the night before an order is due. One platoon commander has a map, a protractor, and a fine-tip pen. Another is losing in a battle with a general-purpose mapping website, like CalTopo. A third is rebuilding…
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