What Boyd discovered was that the side with the quicker OODA loops began to exert a strange and terrifying effect on its opponent. Quicker OODA execution caused the slower side to begin falling farther and farther behind events, to begin to lose touch with the situation. Acting like the “asymmetric fast transients” experienced by fighter pilots, these mismatches with reality caused the more agile side to start becoming ambiguous in the mind of the less agile.
