Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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Now let’s go to World War I. Remember, we started way back, you know, point of view and went back to Sun Tzu and came up to the present. I wanted you to sort of keep track of these ideas. Remember, when I said, we were going to break things down and put them back together, break them down and put them back together to find those invariants, those
constancies, those kind of things that tend to hold up in conflict, wherever you are. We want to know what they are, because we can use that as a basis for getting at the other guy, rather than
him getting at us. Instead of saying, “Well, Clausewitz is our god; therefore, whatever he says is great. We’re just going to go by him,” or Jomini, or Sun Tzu, or whoever it is. So that’s what we have to do. Okay?
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Boyd: —and eventually what I call a finale, for lack of a better word. This is not a [unintelligible] World War I. So we’ll go through that.