Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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[slides 110 and 111] We’ve gone through all this stuff, and now we can start wrapping some things up here. Okay, recall in the beginning, as we’ve gone through this historical study, we can divide it up three ways. Another three ways you can divide them: attrition warfare, maneuver conflict, and moral. These are not exhaustive examples. It's just some interesting examples. Attrition warfare as practiced by people in maneuver conflict. And note we’re talking about attrition warfare as practiced by the Emperor Napoleon and maneuver conflict by the general Bonaparte. Plus Stonewall Jackson, Grant, Hitler’s generals, and Americans under Patton and MacArthur. A little differently, Patton primarily in the tactical or operational sense, MacArthur primarily, we’d call it strategic sense, and in that sense they operated at different levels but they were doing it. And then moral conflict, practiced by the Mongols and most guerrilla leaders. And a very few counter-guerrillas. Magsaysay would be one.