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	John Boyd (military strategist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John (Richard) Boyd (USAF) (January 23, 1927–March 9, 1997) was an American fighter pilot and military strategist of the late 20th century whose theories have been highly influential in the military and in business.
		Boyd was called to Washington, D.C. in the weeks preceding the war, to develop the plan under the supervision of the then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, current Vice President of the United States.
		Boyd's key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA Loop, the process by which an entity (either an individual or an organization) reacts to an event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist) (444 words)

	ipedia.com: John Boyd (military strategist) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Boyd was a fighter pilot and military strategist of the late 20th century whose theories have been highly influential in the military and in business.
		Boyd was called to Washington, D.C in the weeks preceding the war, to develop the plan under the supervision of the then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.
		Boyd's key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA Loop, the process by which an organization reacts to an event.
	www.ipedia.com /john_boyd__military_strategist_.html (379 words)

	OODA Loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Boyd originally developed this diagram to explain to new fighter pilots how to direct their own energies to defeat their enemies and find survival for themselves.
		Boyd emphasised that "the loop" is actually a set of interacting loops that are to be kept in continuous operation during combat.
		One of John Boyd's primary insights in fighter combat was that it was more important to be able to change speed, direction, and altitude more rapidly than one's opponent than it was to simply be able to fly faster than one's opponent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OODA_Loop (950 words)

	USAF Col. John Boyd
		Boyd’s specialty was a maneuver called “flat-plating the bird” where you stop the aircraft in the air by pulling the stick all the way back with both hands and hold it there.
		Boyd complained to Hillaker that the F-111 was underpowered and the swing-wing mechanism was too complicated to be used fast enough to sweep the wings during flight and would get fatigue and stress cracks.
		Boyd’s calculations showed that the aerodynamic performance benefit gained from the swing-wing would be negated by the extra weight and drag that the system brought with it.
	www.saunalahti.fi /~fta/JohnBoyd.htm (4700 words)

	Col. John R. Boyd, USAF (ret.) died in West Palm Beach Florida on Sunday, 9 March 1997. Col. Boyd had served as an ...
		Boyd had served as an enlisted man from 1945 to 1947 in the Army Air Corps and as an officer in the US Air Force from 8 July 1951 to 31 August, 1975.
		Boyd merely changed his temporal lens from a microscope to a telescope, from a micro setting to a macro one, from seconds to eons, from an organism to life forms and became more comfortable jumping back and forth from one to the other.
		John Boyd is dead but he has left a legacy about how to think about war and conflict that is useful, if abstract.
	www.belisarius.com /modern_business_strategy/hammond/essential_boyd.htm (7686 words)

	How Col. John Boyd Beat the Generals, August 12, 2002
		Boyd's service in Indochina came not as a fighter pilot but as commander of a top-secret intelligence center in Thailand, a base whose activities were so sensitive that for the first three years of its operation it did not officially exist.
		It was Boyd's retirement in 1975, Coram tells us in his stunning new biography Boyd - The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War that marked his emergence as one of the world's most important military strategists.
		Boyd's ideas spread like wildfire among the Marine Corps, where a new breed of restless young officers, led by Gen. Al Gray and Col. Mike Wyly, were tired of their image as knuckle-dragging infantrymen and sought glory in matching toughness with intellect.
	www.d-n-i.net /fcs/comments/c455.htm (1828 words)

	New Statesman: The death of a mutinous militarist - US Air Force Col. John Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Colonel John Boyd died in Florida at the age of 70, and though the US Air Force honoured him on 20 March, with a funeral in Arlington complete with guard and fly-past, there are doubtless many souls in the Pentagon relieved that so troublesome an intellect is no longer on active service.
		Boyd's was not a widely known name among the general public, but among theorists of conflict he was unrivalled.
		As an enlisted man in the occupying US forces Boyd was irked that his fellow conscripts had to sleep without blankets on the freezing floors of abandoned Japanese hangers, while their officers luxuriated in pleasant circumstances.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4328_v126/ai_19454945 (733 words)

	John Boyd - USAF, The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of Air Warfare
		Boyd was equally famous in the classroom where he developed the "Aerial Attack Study." Until Boyd came along, fighter pilots thought that air combat was an art rather than a science; that it could never be codified.
		Boyd proved them wrong when he demonstrated that for every maneuver there is a series of counter maneuvers.
		Boyd was the father of the F-15, the F-16, and the F-18.
	www.aviation-history.com /airmen/boyd.htm (777 words)

	The Man to Thank: John Boyd and the OODA Loop in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"John Boyd is one of the principal military geniuses of the 20th century, and hardly anyone knows his name," said John Thompson, a former Canadian army officer who is managing director of the MacKenzie Institute, a Toronto-based think tank which studies global conflict.
		Boyd's biographer, Robert Coram, says, "Simply rendered, the OODA loop is a blueprint for the manoeuvre tactics that allow one to attack the mind of an opponent, to unravel its commander even before a battle begins." (Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War, Little Brown and Company: 2002.
		John Boyd asserts that one can paralyze an enemy by operating inside the opponent's OODA loop, meaning that the individual is operating a faster cycle speed than the enemy's.
	www.lexnotes.com /misc/johnboyd.htm (2525 words)

	The VVA Veteran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Boyd was a brilliant and blazingly eccentric man. He was a crackerjack jet fighter pilot, a visionary scholar, and an innovative military strategist.
		Among other things, Boyd wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat, was primarily responsible for designing the F-15 and the F-16 jet fighters, was a leading voice in the post-Vietnam-War military reform movement, and shaped the smashingly successful U.S. military strategy in the Persian Gulf War.
		Boyd also was a brash, combative, iconoclastic man who made enemies (and fiercely loyal acolytes) everywhere he went.
	www.vva.org /TheVeteran/2002_11/books.htm (1829 words)

	The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot
		Like Boyd before him, Spinney is a professional irritant at the Pentagon, disliked by many military leaders but secure in his position, thanks to his unique talent and his many political connections.
		Schwerpunkt, Boyd wrote, "represents a unifying medium that provides a directed way to tie initiative of many subordinate actions with superior intent as a basis to diminish friction and compress time." That is, employees decide and act locally, but they are guided by a keen understanding of the bigger picture.
		John R. Boyd died, says Robert Coram, "believing that people considered him a kook, a man who never made general and whose ideas never gained popular acceptance." His ideas weren't easy to grasp, and most military leaders were loathe to listen to such a source of disruption -- an iconoclast who threatened their comfortable order.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/59/pilot.html (2826 words)

	On The Media- War Recorders
		JOHN BOYD: [LAUGHS] It's interesting that you say that because usually when I conduct the interview, the first words out of my mouth are, "I am not the press, [LAUGHTER] and I am not a reporter.
		JOHN BOYD: We don't tell the soldier what to say, Indeed, a lot of cases I'm looking for the same thing a reporter is looking for; I'm looking for things that might actually be lessons learned for the Army.
		JOHN BOYD: Sergeant 1st Class Fisk who works with me who is, I consider my computer guru, has attempted to download many of these sites because, like much information here, we consider it to be perishable.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_072205_warrecorders.html (1226 words)

	Boyd: Foul-mouthed maverick changed the art of war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Boyd was one of a dying breed, a pure warrior who could effectively articulate the art of war and cut through the bureaucratic BS that infests 95% of the Pentagon.
		The most amazing aspect of John Boyd's record of achievement is not that it is so profound, but rather that the pilot and his record remain unheard of to most Americans.
		Boyd died of cancer in 1997 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/815334/posts (4370 words)

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		Boyd was a student of tactical operations and observed a similarity in many battles and campaigns.
		Boyd was an extremely accomplished pilot who had a standing bet with all students under his tutelage.
		Boyd developed and pressed forward a simple, yet deeply profound model now known as the OODA cycle or as it often called, Boyd’s Cycle.
	www.patrolandbeyond.com /tactical_notes/ooda_cycle.htm (4643 words)

	How Col. John Boyd Beat The Generals(Saga of a Pentagon Revolutionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once back in Washington, Boyd succeeded — through a back channel to then-secretary of defense James Schlesinger — in developing off the books a prototype of an ultralight fighter (which later became the F-16) that was opposed vigorously by the Air Force brass.
		It was Boyd's retirement in 1975, Coram tells us in his stunning new biography Boyd — The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War that marked his emergence as one of the world's most important military strategists.
		Boyd was a legend in his own time to many in the USAF.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/732364/posts (3074 words)

	Shock And Awe--Your Competitors - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might.
		Boyd died in 1997 and during his life communicated his ideas mostly through memos and seminars.
		Boyd's ideas have inspired more than a few business theories and were even highlighted in a 1988 Harvard Business Review article, which neglected to name the source.
	www.forbes.com /2003/04/23/cz_df_0423ooda.html (751 words)

	Obit - Col. John Boyd, Nellis AFB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:30:15 -0600 Subject: Obit - Col. John Boyd, Nellis AFB WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Col. John R. Boyd, an Air Force fighter pilot whose belief that quicker is better than faster became the basis of a theory that revolutionized military strategy, died of cancer Sunday.
		Boyd theorized that the key to victory was not a plane that could climb faster or higher, but one that could begin climbing or change course quicker.
		From 1954 to 1960, Boyd, who helped establish the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, had a standing offer to pilots: take a position on his tail, and after 40 seconds of twists and turns he would have the challenger in his sights or pay $40.
	www.ufomind.com /area51/list/1997/mar/a14-002.shtml (245 words)

	ON WAR # 14: Don't Take John Boyd's Name In Vain
		John Boyd, USAF, was undoubtedly the greatest military theorist America has produced.
		It does not have the cultural characteristics required to do so, qualities John Boyd stressed such as decentralization, initiative (and the tolerance for mistakes that must accompany initiative), trust up and down the chain of command and reliance on self-discipline rather than imposed discipline.
		Another of John Boyd's most important contributions to military theory was his observation that war is waged at three levels, the physical, the mental and the moral.
	www.freecongress.org /commentaries/2003/030502WL.asp (837 words)

	Operational art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Boyd, attempts to create victory by preemption, dislocation, anddisruption.
		It relies on the intangibles of warfare, such as morale, and the ability ofcommanders to correctly understand and predict them.
		Although it and its defenders claim that it is basedon the ideals of maneuver warfare theory, critics, such as Robert Leonhard and Col. Boyd, have charged that it is an work of attrition theory.
	www.therfcc.org /operational-art-10429.html (230 words)

	John R. Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Editorial focuses on John Boyd, who was a fighter pilot of the USAF and a theorist.
		U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd was most well known for his "Aerial Attack Study" and energy-maneuverability theory.
		While the idea of a decision cycle is not new, Boyd showed that not only can the speed and accuracy of a decision cycle be increased, but an enemy's decision cycle can be disrupted as well.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/school/ots/boyd.htm (873 words)

	Boyd and Military Strategy
		Tribute To John R. Boyd, by Harry Hillaker.
		Here is where Boyd concluded that there was something missing in his own energy-maneuverability concept and ended with the observation that "He who can handle the quickest rate of change survives." This proved to be the observation that led Boyd from air-to-air combat towards a more general theory of competition.
		Because Boyd was not well known to the public (or even the military) at large, many people are unfamiliar with his career and the origins of his strategy.
	www.d-n-i.net /second_level/boyd_military.htm (1914 words)

	Thoughts
		Boyd based himself explicitly on Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and explained: The ideal military objective is to win your adversaries over to your side.
		Boyd began by noting that, on paper, the Mig outperformed the F-86 across the board.
		It should be obvious why Boyd's emphasis on the application of small efforts informed by transformative insight would have appealed to me. Of course, not all problems can be solved by pinpoint action (it takes a lot of provisions, delivered as millions of individual meals, vaccinations, etc. to rescue a large starving population...).
	www.users.cloud9.net /~bradmcc/thoughts.html (2556 words)

	OODA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Col John Boyd, USAF (Ret), coined the term and developed the concept of the "OODA Loop"
		Perhaps most importantly, Boyd was instrumental in explaining and disseminating the concept of "cycle time" and "getting inside the adversary’s decision cycle." Boyd gave his two most famous briefings, "Patterns of Conflict" and "A Discourse on Winning and Losing" over 1,500 times.
		Boyd's ideas have been profiled in a plethora of publications, including Forbes, Fortune, Time, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and The Los Angeles Times.
	www.mindsim.com /MindSim/Corporate/OODA.html (455 words)

	Bookshelved Wiki: Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Boyd was a fighter pilot in the young United States Air Force in the 50's and 60's.
		It starts with Boyd learning tactics to Boyd an engineer who develops aircraft not for the specs sheet but for the ability of the pilot to do his job.
		Coram notes Boyd's faults, his abrasiveness, his neglect of his family, the demands he puts on his followers, his tendency to rub in his victories.
	bookshelved.org /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Boyd (590 words)

	Some Postings by Subject - Col. John Boyd (20051105) Anne & Lynn Wheeler
		Col John Boyd, USAF (Ret), coined the term and developed the concept of the 'OODA Loop' (Observation, Orientation, Decision, A
		Insight on the News: How Col. John Boyd beat the generals; he was first to codify air-to-air combat techniques, and his ideas now have become standard operating procedure for air forces and ground combat worldwide - Nation: heroism
		John Boyd, of 'OODA-loop' fame, believed that, 'wars are begun, fought and ended for some moral purpose
	www.garlic.com /~lynn/subboyd.html (1255 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: FORTY-SECOND BOYD :
		John Boyd, his biographer Robert Coram reports in his well-written book, had a speech he often gave to those who, like the fighter pilot himself, found that doing right did not always mean doing well.
		Known as the "To Be or To Do" speech, Boyd used it to rally flagging spirits of apprentices who, until they became involved as one of his Acolytes, had appeared fated to climb the highest rungs of conventional success.
		But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments." Then Boyd raised the other hand and pointed another direction.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/001510.html (320 words)

	Col gemstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		COL is a liquidator of manufacaturer's inventories and is active in the...
		Boyd was tasked with determining why American pilots in apparently inferior aircraft were...
		Boyd was an extremely accomplished pilot who had a standing bet with all students under his...
	www.dresspageant.com /col+gemstone.html (977 words)

	4th Generation War,objectivism And John Boyd - Objectivism Online Forum
		I dont know if anybody here likes to study military theory or has ever heard of John Boyd(he is the most important military theorist since Sun Tzu),but his ideas are some of the most powerful ideas ive ever heard.
		Boyds major contribution is the OODA loop, which is incredible if used properly in warfare.
		I dont know about that, Col. David Hackworth still recomends that all soldier read that book if they are going to war.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=1524 (2751 words)

	DESERT STORM: THE FIRST INFORMATION WAR?
		Like other two-dimensional thinkers, Saddam failed to see the implications of Col John Warden's "air-Schlieffen" plan, but even he could not have failed to understand the seriousness of a powerful two-corps surface force deploying beyond his right flank, with nothing standing between it and Basra (or Baghdad, for that matter).
		To reiterate Colonel Boyd's assessment, they were enmeshed "in a world of uncertainty, doubt, mistrust, confusion, disorder, fear, panic, chaos" and folded "back inside [themselves] so [they could not] cope with events/efforts as they unfold[ed]." The coalition had unquestionably met Boyd's requirement of operating inside the Iraqis' OODA loop, sometimes by a matter of days.
		Col Edward Mann (BA, Pepperdine University; MA, University of Southern california) is chief of the Doctrine Research Division, Airpower Researach Institute, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education (CADRE), Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
	www.iwar.org.uk /iwar/resources/airchronicles/man1.htm (5577 words)

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