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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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Boyd was someone who was trying to shake up institutions that was tried to tradition and continuing existing modes of thinking: the armed forces. His theories are basically akin to the lean movement where a bunch of experiments are done quickly to take an enemy by surprise. In his system of OODA look the goal is to take the least-expected action instead of the most-effective action. To win before the battle ever starts by overwhelming the enemy by surprise.
The first part of the book focuses a lot on Boyd's time in the Air Force and the E-M theory that he developed, but it seems like the last part just glances over his ideas on the OODA loop and Creation and Destruction (his only written work). I wish there was more time spent on it. Overall a good book but it could have been cut by maybe a 100 pages as every chapter basically included some portion of how he insulted some general or another instead of giving enough credence to the ideas themselves.
The first part of the book focuses a lot on Boyd's time in the Air Force and the E-M theory that he developed, but it seems like the last part just glances over his ideas on the OODA loop and Creation and Destruction (his only written work). I wish there was more time spent on it. Overall a good book but it could have been cut by maybe a 100 pages as every chapter basically included some portion of how he insulted some general or another instead of giving enough credence to the ideas themselves.
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