book Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd. By Frans P.B. Osinga, Copyright 2007. ISBN:0415459524

Partial Excerpts (antilibrary)

Acknowledgments

This book took off during my stay at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies in 1998–99.

1. Introduction

To flourish and grow in a many-sided uncertain and ever changing world that surrounds us, suggests that we have to make intuitive within ourselves those many practices we need to meet the exigencies of that world

Introducing a Discourse

This book aims to provide a better understanding of the strategic thought developed by John Boyd

Most people associate Boyd with the so called ‘OODA loop’,

The idea has gained currency that the OODA loop is the equivalent of a decision cycle. Subsequently, war can be construed of as a collision of organizations going through their respective OODA loops, or decision cycles. In the popularized interpretation, the OODA loop suggests that success in war depends on the ability to out-pace and out-think the opponent

Few are familiar with the source of the OODA loop: A Discourse on Winning and Losing

Systems Everywhere

Systems everywhere The structure of the brain

Cybernetics and systems thinking had a large impact on cognitive science, biology and psychology, psychiatry, the concept of mind and organization theory