Force Design & Org Transformation Practice

Designing tomorrow’s
force, today

Force structure, manning, and doctrinal redesign for a military enterprise in the midst of the largest operational inflection point in a generation.

Force design is the most consequential planning work the military does — and the hardest to execute. Our practice blends retired general officers, joint staff veterans, and operations researchers to help the services and COCOMs structure forces that are survivable, affordable, and deployable against the pacing threat.

Former O-6 / GOFO Partners

All 6

Service Clients

Force Design Studies

14 mo

Avg. Engagement Depth

Mission Context

Competition requires re-architecting the force

The strategic environment has shifted. Legacy force designs built for COIN and forward presence do not produce the distributed, resilient, and technologically integrated force that great-power competition demands. Every service has launched force design initiatives — and every one of them is harder than anticipated.

Brindwell's Force Design practice operates at the intersection of operational art, organizational design, and capability economics. We translate strategic guidance into implementable unit-level changes: manning models, equipping plans, doctrinal revisions, and the POM phase actions required to fund them.

Capabilities

What we deliver

Force Structure Analysis

Unit design, manpower authorizations, and total-force posture analysis grounded in operational modeling.

Operating Concept Development

Concept of employment, concept of operations, and doctrinal drafting coordinated across warfighting functions.

Organizational Transformation

Headquarters redesign, command relationship optimization, and staff-function rationalization.

Capability Portfolio Shaping

POM shaping, capability gap analysis, and investment prioritization aligned to operating concepts.

Wargaming & Experimentation

Analytic wargames, tabletop exercises, and live experimentation to stress force designs before they reach the Joint Staff.

Manning & Talent Design

Career field redesign, accessions planning, and retention modeling for the skills the future force requires.

The Brindwell Difference

Operators, not consultants pretending

Force design done wrong becomes an exercise in slide hygiene. Done right, it is a generational commitment that touches every aspect of the service — from accessions policy to basing decisions to the acquisition POM. Our practice does not pretend to do this work from the outside. Our force-design leaders commanded the units they now advise on redesigning.

We combine that operational credibility with rigorous analytic methods: unit cost modeling, operations research, simulation-based analysis, and manpower optimization. The deliverable is not a deck — it is an executable transition plan owned by the commander and funded in the next POM.