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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> writes:
> John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel.
> http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/

John Boyd's Revenge; How ISIS got inside our OODA Loop
https://medium.com/@bafriedman/john-boyd-s-revenge-8a57d9a53364

Despite the loyalty of his acolytes, the best advocates for Boyd's ideas
are Russia, China, and the Islamic State

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slight drift ... there is also Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_policy_strategist)

strongly influenced by Friedrich Hayek, he earned an M.A. in economics
from the institution in 1949. His master's thesis was a sensitivity
analysis of Lawrence Klein's econometric model of the US economy;
influential for its methodology, it has never been published except for
a short abstract.[6][7][8]

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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs,
Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the
World's Superpowers
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Surfboards-Dictators-Collision-Superpowers-ebook/dp/B00T3CTYTY/

pg378/loc5625-29:

The periscope belonged to a Chinese diesel attack submarine that had
crept, stealthily and undetected, to within torpedo range of an American
aircraft carrier battle group on routine patrol in the area. Though the
official Pentagon inquiries would later concentrate on the alarming
embarrassment of the U.S. Navy, with all its sophisticated underwater
detection apparatus, having failed to notice the incoming attack vessel,
the deeper and initially unanswered question was why this Chinese
submarine was in this corner of the Pacific, in what were long assumed
to be American waters, by use if not by right.

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there is joke the highest gov. security classification is "down right
embarrassing" ... usually little to do preventing adversaries from
learning something, but preventing the US public from learning
something.

pg415/loc6115-21:

Yet a counterplan exists, for now, and though like all complicated
military strategies, it is a child of many fathers, it was designed in
essence by one man, the second of the two much-revered graybeards of
transpacific planning: the man who was generally regarded as Admiral
Liu’s intellectual opposite number in Washington, Andrew Marshall. This
most remarkable figure retired in 2015 after forty-two years as director
of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, to which he had been
appointed by Richard Nixon back in 1973. When he stepped down he was
ninety-four years old, and for decades was known familiarly in the
American press as Yoda, after the Jedi Grand Master in the Star Wars
movies, the Pentagon’s preeminent keeper of peace and justice.

pg416/loc6121-24:

His job was to plan for future wars, “to look at not very happy
futures,” as he once put it. Among the world’s war makers, most
especially those in Russia and China, his fame is legendary. He was “our
hero” to the PLA’s General Chen Zhou, one of modern China’s most
powerful strategists. America’s RMA theory, said General Chen, was
something he and his staff had studied “exhaustively.” The Chinese
“translated every word that Marshall wrote.”

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and in 2015, who was the write-in candidate for the new yoda?

Boyd has been credited with the battle plan for Desert Storm ...  and US
NEWS & WORLD REPORTS had article titled "The Fight To Change How America
Fights" about Boyd mentioning Boyd's (recent crop of majors & cols) "Jedi
Knights".

Boyd posts & URLs (from around the web)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html

past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#69 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#71 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#72 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#74 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#78 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#80 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers

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