Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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First let’s look at the tactical theme, early tactical theme. And you’ll notice I truncated at 1400. The reason why I truncated it there is because of weaponry.
And they talk about two kinds of troops, light troops and heavy troops. We have those today.
Look at the role of light troops, and look how they interact with heavy troops. And if you read that very carefully what you’re seeing, the light troops, in a sense, in some sense sometimes they’re acting as a cheng, and the heavy troops are the chi. Or it swings back the other way, see it right down here. You’re combining operations. [unintelligible] Use one, so when a guy tries to defend himself against one, he sets himself up against the other.
[20:00]So in combination, they’re able to play this game, so they employ the maneuver action with the light troops and the thrust action, the hammer action with the heavy. We see that all the way back. So in a sense it’s the cheng/chi game.