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To: Senator Goldwater

Explain OODA loop please!


60 posted on 10/04/2008 8:56:53 PM PDT by SaintDismas (Starting to regret the handle I chose for this forum)
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It is about time and the timing is perfect. It doesn’t matter about the issues if you have a communist/terrorist in the White House. This info will sink Obama and I have a feeling the GOP has stuff we don’t even know about yet.


64 posted on 10/04/2008 8:58:50 PM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: wequalswinner
It's a strategy for winning conflict developed by a great American patriot and jet jock named John Boyd. It involves obsering the environment and orienting your tinking to what you see. Then you decide on a course of action, implement it and begin the observation of its effects on your opponent. You perform the four steps and increase the tempo to get indide your opponents decision making process.

Observe Orient Decide Act. This idea is instinctive among air force fighter pilots and naval aviators. It was taught by Boyd in his well known lectures at the National War College. Attended by Captain John Sydney McCain USN.

82 posted on 10/04/2008 9:09:07 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (Freedom is purchased not with gold, but with steel.)
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To: wequalswinner
Essential reading:
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000172.html
http://patdollard.com/2008/09/ooda-mccain-flies-his-campaign-past-obama/
144 posted on 10/04/2008 11:06:52 PM PDT by thecabal (Conservatives who don't live up to the liberal caricature are now hypocrites.)
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To: wequalswinner

Explain OODA loop please!


Michael Barone came up with it in this piece:

Michael Barone suggests that McCain has gotten inside Obama’s OODA loop:

John McCain was trained as a fighter pilot. In his selection of Sarah Palin, and in his convention and campaigning since, he has shown that he learned an important lesson from his fighter pilot days: He has gotten inside Barack Obama’s OODA loop.

That term was the invention of the great fighter pilot and military strategist John Boyd. It’s an acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.

“The key to victory is operating at a faster tempo than the enemy,” Boyd’s biographer Robert Coram writes. “The key thing to understand about Boyd’s version is not the mechanical cycle itself, but rather the need to execute the cycle in such a fashion as to get inside the mind and decision cycle of the adversary.”


173 posted on 10/05/2008 8:11:49 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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