Boyd's stuff is really interesting but yeah, he doesn't provide quite as much of a unified theory of everything as a lot of the Pentagon people seem to think. i

Boyd's stuff is really interesting but yeah, he doesn't provide quite as much of a unified theory of everything as a lot of the Pentagon people seem to think. imo one result of the over-bureaucratized nature of the US military is that ideas that would be considered fairly basic in other contexts are treated as incomparable advances there [edit] which reminds me of the IDF/Deleuze thing - the grand insight they got from reading Difference & Repetition was that... they could blow holes in walls instead of going around them https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/art-war-deleuze-guattari-debord-and-israeli-defence-force https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/art-war-deleuze-...