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Generational Model – Tactics

Only valuable contribution to tactical thinking is that it accepts that new effective tactics are easy to generate. This results in a requirement for Boydian thinking – largely embodied by Vandergriff’s approach to training. Sign up for my newsletter.

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Van Riper On Taking Out Pirates

Interesting interview in Foreign Policy. VP’s one of the smarter conventional generals we’ve had. Sign up for my newsletter.

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Liveblogging Boyd 08

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend this years Boyd Conference. (Hard deadline on completing an energy report at the request of the incoming administration.) However, Chet Richards is there with his laptop, along with John Robb, Rob Paterson, and a variety of other brilliant individuals. You can still watch the action unfold. Sign up for [...]

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Review: The John Boyd Roundtable

Thanks to Mark for passing along a review copy of the book. It’s a solid short read (my kind of book). It has the uniqueness of both being able to touch off debate, but still offer a framework with which to talk about the future of warfare (or more appropriately, decision making) – in other [...]

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Boyd Conference Site

Rob’s put together a great site. I’ll be signing up soon. You should too. Here’s the Ning site as well. Sign up for my newsletter.

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