How to Write Email with Military Precision

> "Sometimes, I even highlight the bottom line in yellow so that my point is abundantly clear."

Be careful with this. I was having a hard time communicating with a coworker who put all her most important points in a unique purple sized-up font because it turns out decades of www-exposure has trained my brain to filter out and ignore information presented like this. (Being flashy and trying to hijack my attention are hallmarks of embedded advertisement.)

The military is not an organization particularly known for precision. How about scientific precision or engineering precision?

Quite. Hard to read the headline and not remember General McNair.

I like BLUF more than tl;dr, because it doesn't imply the rest of the email is worthless.

I like it when news does this as well. It's rare, but CNBC is one example, with their "Key Points" at the beginning of each article.