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  • Landrover

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    These are meant to run consistently with Boyd's OODA Loop.

    Variety- We should have a full tool box of tools in a violent encounter. Not so many that we confuse our LOOP. But enough so that we have a variety of tools to gain the element of surprise.

    Rapidity-A way to increase our speed, shrinking our LOOP while leaving our opponent in the Observation portion of their LOOP or increasing the size of their LOOP. This should make it look from the outside as if we were moving directly from Observation to Action.

    Harmony- It is said that Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast.
    This could never be more true than in a gunfight.
    There is no room in a gunfight for mis-steps,
    indecisions or poor manipulation of a firearm or
    missed hits on target COM.

    Initiative- Aggressiveness and solid decisions in Violence of ACTION.
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    Ole Cowboy

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    Familiar with Boyd who IMO took the common sense found at the bottom of the good chain by the dogfaces that that actually do it, dressed up with razzle dazzle and pomp, beat his own drum and told everyone it was his idea and that it uniformly and specifically applies to all situations all the time and he is a genius for tell us that.

    Boyd was a USAF fighter pilot who never fired a shot in combat, not sure what he did in WWII, Korea and Vietnam his military bio does not seem to cover that.

    Does the OODA loop apply to the Infantry as well as the fighter pilot, yes just like it applies to the barista at Starbucks and the taxi driver who took you there. But the devil is in the details and rule #2, at fist contact all bets are off.

    That said how do win on the killing fields for those of us whose boots walk the valley of the shadow? The 5 P's I learned in '67 as a Pfc in Basic: Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. The things we do on the Operational/Planning side of the house as S/G-3's. The OODA loop only flaw is that he fails to give credit to the 5P's. I assure you the OODA loop fails if you are not prepared as OODA implies flying by the seat of your pants.

    We Fight as we Train and we Train as we Fight. OODA is a critical piece, its the second half of the equation and when you step into the bloody arena be in the sky, sea or land you better have trained for it.
     

    Younggun

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    If you have a plan then someone can find out your plan and counter it.

    The key to victory is spontaneity and irrational unpredictable actions.

    Unless they know to expect the unexpected. In that case you do the expected which they will never expect.
     

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    Ole Cowboy

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    Familiar with Boyd who IMO took the common sense found at the bottom of the food chain by the dogfaces that that actually do it, dressed up with razzle dazzle and pomp, beat his own drum and told everyone it was his idea and that it uniformly and specifically applies to all situations all the time and he is a genius for tell us that.

    Boyd was a USAF fighter pilot who never fired a shot in combat, not sure what he did in WWII, Korea and Vietnam his military bio does not seem to cover that.

    Does the OODA loop apply to the Infantry as well as the fighter pilot, yes just like it applies to the barista at Starbucks and the taxi driver who took you there. But the devil is in the details and rule #2, at fist contact all bets are off.

    That said how do win on the killing fields for those of us whose boots walk the valley of the shadow? The 5 P's I learned in '67 as a Pfc in Basic: Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. The things we do on the Operational/Planning side of the house as S/G-3's. The OODA loop only flaw is that he fails to give credit to the 5P's. I assure you the OODA loop fails if you are not prepared as OODA implies flying by the seat of your pants.

    We Fight as we Train and we Train as we Fight. OODA is a critical piece, its the second half of the equation and when you step into the bloody arena be in the sky, sea or land you better have trained for it.
     
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