Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
Not that we don't want to surprise and shock them. But another way of looking at it. The right and left side is still the same. I just adjusted the right side. So I get disorientation, disruption and overload. That's what you're trying to do. Disorient the guy, disrupt the guy and overload him. Then you realize this aim, or equivalently state it that way. So maneuver warfare is just not a bunch of guys going down the highway at a high speed. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Not just a bunch of guys going down a highway at high speed. There's movement.
So if you look at this, the content of this has a heavy, what? Mental content. Whereas attrition has a heavy, what? Physical content. So we're back to the moral, mental and physical. The attrition is related primarily to the physical and the maneuver related to the mental. So you can leverage that guy. Remember what I said, terrain doesn't fight wars, machines don’t fight wars, people do it and they use their minds. That's exactly what we're working on in here. So don't let yourself be sucked into the thing where all maneuver warfare is a bunch of troops going at a high speed down some highway, or across some plain in a tank or something like that, or a bunch of tanks. Okay? It’s a little bit more sophisticated, if you really want to think about it. Okay?