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Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP)

A Marine Corps planning paradigm for producing plans and orders, integrating a design methodology with detailed planning and wargaming.
Defines Marine Corps Planning Process, MCPP

The Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) is a planning paradigm for producing plans and orders. Like other western staff planning paradigms, it exists to translate uncertainty into a decision, an executable concept, and the coordination products that make distributed action coherent [usmc2020mcwp5_10].

MCPP is especially useful to study as a comparative framework because it explicitly integrates design (problem framing and operational approach development) with planning (COA development, wargaming, orders).

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[usmc2020mcwp5_10] United States Marine Corps. (2020). Marine Corps Planning Process. MCWP 5-10 (10 Aug 2020; Change 1, 30 Jan 2026).

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