I would think it’s the other way around: Important policy documents like this should be written in this format in order to minimise ambiguity and provide the sp

I would think it’s the other way around: Important policy documents like this should be written in this format in order to minimise ambiguity and provide the space for detail. As a formal guidance memorandum this format also allows for each section and paragraph to be uniquely referenced through with a logical structure, same as legal documents. There will almost certainly be infographics and posters made of this document’s key points and distributed around the DoD, but they’ll refer back to this as the canonical source. Honestly if more software companies worked this way there’d be less confusion and fewer cases of building the wrong thing, loss of institutional knowledge, and duplicated effort.