Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
Okay? So it raised a rather interesting question. Remember what I said, remember, instead of using strategic dispersion followed by tactical concentration, they’re using tactical dispersion followed with a strategic focus. I cannot use the word concentration. It has a lot of excess baggage. You can call it concentration if you want to.
Okay. So what do you have? Instead of trying to use strategic success for your grand tactical and tactical, you’re using tactical for your grand tactical and strategic. That’s also inverted. So you say are these the rejection of Napoleonic methods? You may think so. But obviously because of my statement after the double dash, maybe they aren’t. So let’s address that.