Science, Strategy and War

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1. bellofontJun 2025
   The OODA loop is great, but Boyd has so much more brilliant stuff for people willing to put in the effort. OODA loop gets you the heart of his thought, but if you really want to understand him read a transcript of "Patterns of Conflict." Osinga's "Science, Strategy, and War" is also a superb summary of Boyd's thought, although I'm partial to "Patterns."
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2. abhiyerraMar 2025
   And do it faster than your enemy, in the context of the military setting in which it was developed.

   Also recommend the book Science, Strategy and War which is a PhD thesis to answer the GP’s question on research.

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3. spitfireJul 2023
   You can find all of John Boyd's work on Chet Richards' website. Chet was one of the Boyd acolytes.

   https://slightlyeastofnew.com/439-2/

   Also very much worth looking at is Frans Osinga's thesis/book "Science, strategy, and war."

   http://www.projectwhitehorse.com/pdfs/ScienceStrategyWar_Osi...

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4. abhiyerraFeb 2023
   I found Science, Strategy, and War a great deep dive of the OODA Loop.

   https://amzn.to/3IKx77A

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5. abhiyerraMay 2019
   Really enjoyed Science Strategy and War. Basically using the OODA loop and using mental models to make rapid decisions. The best book on John Boyd’s OODA loop in my opinion.
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6. abhiyerraFeb 2019
   Science, Strategy, and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd,History of Sexuality by Foucault, Methophors to Live By by Lakoff

   All of these portray the world as a series of systems. First deals with interconnected systems like war, business, conflict, the second the notion that culture itself is a series of systems of power and sexuality has been used as a system of power, and third that most of our thought can be made from simpler set of blocks i.e metaphors from which we construct almost all of existence.

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