The blog Chicago Boyz, two of whose contributors, “Lexington Green” and Mark Safranski, I consider blog-friends, is hosting a blogging roundtable on Colonel Frans P. Osinga’s book, Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd.
For those of you not familiar with Boyd’s work, he is the originator of the OODA Loop (Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action), fundamental in current U. S. military thinking. The former Commandant of the Marines, Gen. Charles C. Krulak, gave substantial credit for the victory against Iraq in the first Gulf War to Boyd:
The Iraqi army collapsed morally and intellectually under the onslaught of American and Coalition forces. John Boyd was an architect of that victory as surely as if he’d commanded a fighter wing or a maneuver division in the desert.
Here are links to the posts in the roundtable thus far:
Introductory post by Mark Safranski
Contribution by Wilf Owen, editor of The Asian Military Review
Contribution by Dan of tdaxp
Contribution by Dr. Chet Richards, of Certain to Win
Contribution by Shane Deichman, of Wizards of Oz
Much thanks Dave!
We’ll have more posts up tonight, Sunday and Dr. Osinga ‘s response on Monday