Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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Okay, now let’s go in the battles. And here’s—you may have seen this schematic before—the battle of Marathon. We have the Greeks up here, thinned out center and stronger wings, going against the Persians in a tightened-up formation, and the Persians pushed back the center, the wings came in and attacked the flanks, they tried to reorganize themselves to deal with it, they become totally confused, and of course they take them out. It’s also an example, an early example of what we call the double envelopment scheme, whether they intended it or not, there’s a lot of argument on that. But you can see that kind of thing.
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