Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
Okay, with that in mind then, the point that I want to make here, and I’m going to make an observation. Your single envelopment scheme, whether you want to think of Leuctra, Leuthen, Schlieffen, or whatever you want, they usually take less force then the double envelopment scheme, a’la Marathon or Cannae, to achieve the same benefit. Remember, we talked about that before.
Okay, so in a sense what I’m taking here is sort of a Jominian mindset to look at how you set up these operations. One of the reasons why I’m taking this as a mindset, these guys had those kinds of mindsets. The commanders, not necessarily bad, providing you use it in the right sense, okay?