John Boyd

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This idea goes back to John Boyd, a US Air Force fighter pilot who spent years studying why some pilots win dogfights.

He liked to point to the Korean War.

American pilots there flew the F-86 Sabre against the Soviet-built MiG-15.

Okay, so this comes from the Air Force.

Colonel John Boyd was trying to help his jet fighter pilots basically win out in a firefight against other fighter jets, right? Okay.

And the methodology he basically came up with was whoever could observe the situation, orient themselves in that 3D space of flying a jet, decide and act, and then loop around and keep doing that, the fastest would win in a firefight.

That was basically his premise.

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And, um, moving on from that, one of the things that, uh, John Boyd, cause a lot of why I got into this is not just because I was made to read Coon like everybody else, but, uh, John Boyd, the strategist, the air force officer, he actually cites Boyd as one of the sort of starting points when he tried to create an integral or integral conception for warfare and strategy.

And, um, One of the points that's brought out of Boyd's work is, yeah, every model is wrong in the sense it's not perfectly accurate and all the contingent things.

But probably a more accurate way to say is every model is incomplete.

And when I started looking at the ways to make decisions, I came across this doctrine that the U.S. Air Force had created.

A guy named John Boyd in the 1960s came up with this thing called the OODA loop.

And I found out that the military was using this for air-to-air combat.

The Marines were using it for their doctrine for maneuver warfare.