Reminds me of the viral video where a dad asks him children to instruct him on how to make a peanut butter sandwich. If they were vague, he would exploit any ambiguity in the instructions against them - like "rub the knife on the bread" before it had any peanut butter on it :)

The military knows how to do this - and has a strong reason to. If your documentation cannot survive the death or resignation of the man, team or department that wrote it, you can't build generational knowledge. Look up the mil spec for chocolate cake (skips my mind where it is in my library) for example.