Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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So here's the book that I read shortly after I talked to Balck, and I got the thing for 25 cents [unintelligible] tremendous buy. I just ran into it in one of the bookstores and happened to think, hey, this is very interesting. And these pages particularly got it, by Cyril Falls. And the underlines are mine and I'll let you read it, but note what he's talking about. If you look at all three pages, they're all related, even though they’re— one case, two cases they’re talking, the first two cases are [pages] 124 and 161, accounts of World War I, 165 about the German Army in World War II.
And he’s hitting on a moral issue. In this particular case up here, these first two, you know they're experiencing things they've never experienced before, and they're having a hard time coming to grips with them. Now I'm going to define “moral” differently in my view, when we get around and I give you my strategy brief. [unintelligible] There’s another way of looking at “moral” that I think is more profound and more powerful, but this is a way of looking at it, and it’s okay. There's more than one way to skin a cat. Okay?