Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
So now lift it up to a higher level. So now we’ve got, let’s say, a higher level thrust. But inside those, you’ve got these individual thrusts, you’re working a pincer on a guy. And then out of these, more thrusts coming in, generating—
Basically, what are you doing? You’re generating what? What’s the key word? I said it earlier? What are you doing when you’re doing that? You’re generating what? Anybody?
[Cross talking]
Boyd: Non-cooperative centers of gravity. What you’re doing by doing that, you’re slicing in here, and coming in so that he can’t function as an organic whole. You’re generating those noncooperative centers of gravity, and you’re sweeping out the debris then.
[46:20]
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