Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
Of course here’s the message I’m trying to convey to you here, on their side. And one of the problems the Germans have is, we reformers have been criticized for using a lot of the German ideas. And they say after all, they lost the war. But you’ve got to ask yourself, at what level did they lose the war, they didn’t lose it at the tactical level, they lost it at what? The strategic level. They did not lose it at tactical level, they lost it at strategic level, that’s where they lost it. Their tactics were superb. Their strategy sucked. So the British and the Americans, particularly the British and the Russians, the Americans actually did a better job of strategy. They lost at the strategic level, is where they lost it.