[Osmf-talk] For Community Consultation: OSMF Strategic, , Plan Version 2

[Allan Mustard]

Yep, it was. Beat the Nazis first, then the Japanese, and in broad 
strokes how to accomplish that: kick the Nazis out of North Africa to 
remove the threat of the Nazis having access to Middle East oil, then 
attack Italy, and finally attack from the west (the Normandy invasion), 
and all this while the Soviets counterattacked from the east with 
American Lend-Lease providing badly needed war materiel and food. They 
agreed the USSR would not attack the Japanese until the Nazis were 
defeated so that the USSR could divert resources from the Far East to 
the European front. That was all covered in detail in three pages. No 
budget, no specific timeline (General Marshall wanted the Normandy 
invasion to take place in 1943 but FDR overruled him and set it for 
1944, for example), just the framework for a few million documents to 
implement the grand strategy, down to operational orders at the platoon 
level.

As for when we can see the other pieces, the budget is an annual affair 
and future budgets will presumably incorporate guidance from the 
strategic plan. The tactical plans will depend on the doocracy, and some 
corners of OSM will act faster than others (I suspect you already knew 
that 😉).  As a volunteer-run project, we are as always heavily 
dependent on how much time volunteers can devote to running the project. 
Pardon me, Steve, but I have to run, I have some mapping to do. 😎

cheers,
apm

> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:45:42 +0000
> From: Steve Coast<steve at stevecoast.com>
> To:"allan at mustard.net"  <allan at mustard.net>
> Cc: OSMF Talk<osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] For Community Consultation: OSMF Strategic,
> 	Plan Version 2
>
> So the plan for invading the entire world was shorter than OSMFs plan? 🙂
>
> When do you think we might have these other pieces?
>
> Best
>
> Steve