Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
That being the case, we can start making some definitions here again. Start peeling some ideas back to Clausewitz then. Remember, we talked about things that bring out fear, anxiety, and alienation or their counterweights, courage, confidence, and esprit. We’ve already said what moral strength is. Moral victory is the triumph of courage, confidence, and esprit over fear, anxiety, and alienation, when confronted by menace, uncertainty, and mistrust. In other words, you’re bringing out those positive virtues, rather than what we call those more negative qualities. You know, we have them, as human beings, we have these things. Fear, anxiety— what you want to do is be able to bring these, well these up over these, and therefore you're going to deal with that menace, uncertainty, and mistrust. That’s what you want to be able to deal with then. Moral defeat, of course, is just the opposite. In that case, fear, anxiety, and alienation, they well up, the others suppress [unintelligible]. And moral values, those that permit one to carry on in the face of that. Moral authority. That person or body that permits you to deal with that.