What's the reading-ease score of NATO #doctrine?
AJP-01 (ch1) sits around 25, rendering it "very difficult to read, best understood by university graduates."
When most NATO members don't have English as their first language, hard-to-read doctrine (and operational orders!) is a real problem.
@owenwntr.bsky.socialOver the past 80 years, academic writing has become substantially harder to read 📉🧪 www.economist.com/science-and-... I analysed 350k PhD thesis abstracts and found that they've become more complex in every discipline, especially the humanities and social sciences
