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Frans Osinga's book would be more insightful for anyone who was interested in this article. There is a small cottage industry that has grown around Boyd's work (every year there is a conference dedicated to his ideas held at Quantico every year.)

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Strategy-War-Strategic-History...

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I was about to recommend that book. It's amazing. If anybody wants to read more about Boyd I would also highly recommend Coram's book that the article mentions, I am in the midst of re-re-reading it, what a force of character.

There are also audio recordings of one of his briefings on YouTube.

The Osinga book is available free as a PDF. But if you do pay for it, it's worth every penny.

http://opmexperts.com/OsingaBoydThesis.pdf

I'm making my way through this book now. It's very rough terrain since the book was a PhD thesis, but it's really the best in-depth look at Boyd's work, of which I am a big fan!

It isn't an easy read. It took me two readings and about 6 months to really start to crack the depth of the ideas.

Many people come away with only the shallow surface message and end up worse off for it. (Also acts as a nice filter)

Hi, author of the post here -- I hadn't been aware this book existed, thanks for bringing it to my attention! Adding to my must-read list now...

Good recommendation. Its a thorough book looking at the genesis of OODA (& much more). Not an easy read since its much deeper than pop-nonfiction that most people are used to.

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