Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
With that in mind, let’s get into the guerrilla stuff now. This is my longest chart. I’ll let you read that and we’ll comment on it. Insurgency, guerrilla, et cetera. Note what I said. Capitalize on discontent and mistrust. Where you got to get those so-called crises in order to leverage the situation. That’s your raison d’etre, reason for being, if you’re a guerrilla.
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It’s a damn insidious game, as you can see. And a very successful game, isn’t it? If you’ve got the right conditions for it. So what do you observe here? Now you’re observing, what, many non-cooperative moral, mental, and physical centers of gravity here. If they’re imposed upon a government so the government can’t function, the regime can’t function as an organic whole.