> (diagram for 'Orient') (This diagram seems to match Wikipedia's, which claims it's from Boyd or based on Boyd.) The components of 'Orient', the analytical s

> (diagram for 'Orient') (This diagram seems to match Wikipedia's, which claims it's from Boyd or based on Boyd.) The components of 'Orient', the analytical step, are a bit odd: There's no training, skill, knowledge, or intuition; even more critically there's no emotional input, including the influence of present emotion (anger, anxiety, fear, calm, etc.) and our feeling about different options - which is most of how humans orient and decide, especially when choosing quickly. The diagram lists only culture, genetics, new information, prior experiences, and analysis & synthesis. The last three are unavoidable; the first two seem almost ideological to focus on, given the obvious ones I mention are excluded. Possibly, Boyd says otherwise (we don't have the primary source), or somehow the categories include the inputs I mentioned. Also, > Over time, he formalized his ideas of warfare in his classic “Patterns of Conflict” lectures that inspired the Maneuver Warfare doctrine of the Marine Corps. Afaik, maneuver warfare goes back to WWII or maybe before. Boyd was born in 1927 and became prominent in ~1960s.