Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
[unintelligible] The strategy of central position, this is one that Jomini liked to talk about. Wherein, what he would do is, the other guy’s spread out, you’d wedge in between him, show up in here, then you have a secondary attack. “SA” stands for secondary attack, small force here, main attack, “MA,” going against this force here. After you clean these guys up, go back and take out the other force. But there’s a hidden assumption there, what is it? Anybody?
Audience: Speed.
Boyd: That’s right. You’re not going get away with that unless you can operate at a faster tempo than the adversary. You can’t play that. So there’s a hidden assumption, the idea of speed. And that often isn’t brought out. That’s exactly right. Okay, with that in mind, let’s step down to the tactical level.