A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror

by Daniel Ford

Book Overview

John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Best known for his formulation of the OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making, Colonel Boyd was also an original thinker in developing tactics for air-to-air combat, designing warplanes, and the fluid, mobile warfare known to the Germans as blitzkrieg and to modern armies as "maneuver warfare."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451589816
• ISBN13: 9781451589818
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"