Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
With that in mind, then, let’s go to the second impression. Where I said the transients— you have to have the transients to feed the intentions, which make up the plan. So remember— I don’t care whether you write it this way. But you want to get inside his tempo or pace, or get inside his OODA loop, whatever you want to call it. Get inside his mind-time-space. That, by doing that, that permits you to realize these intentions. And these are nothing more than a replay of the statements I had under what? The plan and the pattern of a successful operation.
But note what I underlined. Note these underlines. The reason why I underlined those, those underlines, actually, if you look at those words, [20:00] it’s implicit in all those statements. The things that are underlined are implicit in every statement there. And by doing this—all this, you can realize the statement inside the box, was what you’re trying to realize. You’re trying to realize that statement. So then, if you take this and merge it with this, you glue the whole thing together. Just synthesize it. You see what I’m doing? I’m merging. What am I doing when I use the word “merge?” Synthesis. I’m not analyzing now, I’m synthesizing. I put it together. And so when I put it together, now you can come up with a generalized strategy.