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There is a good book on that subject by Stephen Bungay called "The Art of Action". He explains the concept of Auftragstaktik. Great book, although a bit hard to
by baxtr 10mo ago
There is a good book on that subject by Stephen Bungay called "The Art of Action". He explains the concept of Auftragstaktik. Great book, although a bit hard to read.
- Grosvenor 10mo agoThere's also Franz Osinga's book Scince, strategy, and war, which covers John Boyd's work in detail.
- MaysonL 10mo agoJohn Boyd, describer of the “OODA” loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
- baxtr 10mo agoI think OODA is fundamentally different to Auftragstaktik. Auftragstaktik describes a clear purpose / intent. Like: capture the bridge (but: we don’t care how you do it since we can’t foresee specific circumstances) OODA describes a process of decision making. So, Auftragstaktik answers who decides what and why. OODA answers how decisions are made and updated over time. They’re complementary but different.