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Originally Posted by Bluesman
Blinded by prejudice.  |
No, I found the biographical description about Boyd interesting.
However, you way oversold the piece.
The OODA loop is already part of doctrine, and anyone who has done targeting knows this already. Getting inside the enemy's decision cycle is a huge premise behind the creation of the SBCTs - information dominance through the "battlefield internet" would allow blue forces to react faster than the enemy. So, the essay didn't introduce anything new there. It then continued with some incredibly weak context in some areas and used analysis that could have been taken straight from Sun Tzu. Finally, it used some spurious correlation about the motivation behind the surge. For the strategic insights offered, Sun Tzu would have been a more efficient use of time.