Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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There’s a way of doing it, we’ve already done it, we’ve just got to look at it. So I’ll do it in a simplistic fashion. You want to keep things simple. First of all, I think we want to compress our time and stretch out adversary time. Or do you want to do it the other way? Do you want to stretch out your time and compress his? You’re going to get taken to the cleaners if that’s the case.
You want to generate unequal distributions as basis to gain superiority and leverage against him. We just see that piling up all the time. You want to diminish your own friction, or if you want to think like a modern 20th century guy, diminish your entropy while pumping his up, his friction or entropy. In fact, that goes right along, friction and time. You pump up your friction, you’re going to stretch out his time. If you diminish your friction, you diminish your time for doing things, see what I’m saying? They go together.
So the more I can put friction in the other guy’s system, the longer it is going to take to get his act together to do something. You’re going to give him more and more delays, whether it be mental, whether it be moral, whether it be physical, or combinations thereof. And as a result of doing all these things then, that permits you to get inside his OODA loop. If you don’t do this, you’re not going to get inside his. Or get inside his mind-time-space.
[40:00] All this together then allows you to penetrate his organism and pull him down and bring about his collapse. And that’s the destructive side. The same time, you want to amplify our spirit and strength, drain away his, and attract the uncommitted. So let’s glue it all together.