Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
And note what I’m saying here. This then sets up this, which sets up this. Note what I’m saying. Get inside his, by doing these kinds of things. Create tangles of threating or non-threating efforts. Generate mismatches between those things he observes, and those kind of things he’s going to have to react or adapt to. Now if you can start doing that kind of stuff, thereby that allows you to enmesh him in an amorphous, menacing, unpredictable world of all these kinds of things.
As a matter of fact, not only that, you literally fold him back inside himself, because now he’s out of touch with his environment. And what happens when that happens? Doubt, uncertainty, panic, chaos, unglued. And see, thereby, that sets up your— maneuver adversary beyond his capacity to adapt or endure, so he can neither divine our intention or focus his efforts to deal with it. You just pull him apart. More than bit by bit. Chunk by chunk, bit by bit. So that’s the sort of a philosophy you want to have. Okay?