Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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So here’s another way I can look at it. Synthesize these things. Lethal effort, maneuver, and moral. Lethal effort, this is the kind of things. Maneuver, these are the kind of things. Moral, you’re trying to work them in. Pull it all together, here’s your basic idea then. You can think of it that way. And you say, “Well, hell, I can think of another way.” I say, great! Think it, write it down, good! [25:00] And the aim’s very similar.
But if you think about it, this is not much different than the previous chart. I mean, it’s got a little different focus. But you see the same kind of themes in there, it’s just an alternative way of thinking about it. And maybe in some cases, this might be a better way of thinking about it than the other way, or maybe your own way. Okay?
Now what I want to do, now let’s step all the way back to the beginning, because we worked our way all the way through. Sun Tzu, Mongols— I mean, Napoleon, Mongols, blitzkrieg, guerrilla war, counter-blitz, counter-guerrilla war, categories of conflict. There’s something that keeps repeating itself over and over again. A theme that begins to show up. And this is it right here.