Patterns of Conflict

It's always relative to something else, to whoever you're competing against.

And so he would talk about, especially in his patterns of conflict briefing, which is where he really focuses on military history.

This is sort of the favorite briefing for the Marines, right? Because it all it all talks about warfare.

That's what they're that's what they were learning at the schools they were at.

If their goals require them to do something very quickly, all you have to do is keep them from achieving their goals quickly and extend that time.

And then that makes it harder for them to achieve their goals.

So one of the most interesting things to me, I remember going through patterns of conflict as a young Marine.

And actually, I want to ask you, this is a bit of a digression, but where can one listen or watch Boyd's lectures? Because he was a bit of a strategic Socrates in the sense that he was a speaker and discusser much more than a writer.

He kept revising it.

And then he kept building off of it with, say, patterns of conflict.

Well, guess what? There's 39 versions of patterns of conflict that we know about.

I mean, there's...

I think Mary said there might even be a few more.

This is the core.

Yeah.

So what I'm sharing on the screen right now, just so our listeners can hear it, it's Destruction and Creation, Patterns of Conflict, Organic Design for Command and Control, The Strategic Game, and Conceptual Spiral.