Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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Boyd: [45:00] All I’m showing you here is their penetration method. Their impression of blitzkrieg penetration. I’m showing you they’re zigzagging their way in. Here’s the thrust. Sometimes you call them the thrust. And they call this— these are also thrusts. But when they go laterally, I like to call them off-rolling or roll-out.
The basic idea, what you’re doing here is your zig— they want a zigzag. They’re working strength against weakness, and then rolling that and cutting of the guy’s lines of communication so he can’t defend.
In other words, they’re draining away their support, their rear support in that, and their lines of retreat. Not only that, they do it at all levels. You have those thrusts and roll-outs at battalion, at regimental, division. So you’ve got thrust inside thrust inside thrust, at all levels there. So the other guy says, what the hell’s going on here?
Now, you see the way they represent the map, these nice, neat arrows going through. Well, that doesn’t really work out that way. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Okay?