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This is exactly why John Boyd never wrote any books explaining his thought process - his entire point is to drop fixed and inflexible doctrine in favor of strik
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
This is exactly why John Boyd never wrote any books explaining his thought process - his entire point is to drop fixed and inflexible doctrine in favor of striking at the heart of what makes military operations work, and explicitly serializing your mental models is a quick way to convince people to interpret them as a fixed doctrine.
- hga 11y agoExample of "cult doctrine" he would be very aware of: in Vietnam, the Air Force was using WWII fighter formations, which granted them 1/4th the power the Navy's modern, jet adapted ones had. In part, this wasn't seen as a problem by the flight leaders, who would tended to be senior officers, since they got all the action while the other 3 had to mostly concentrate on staying in formation....