Announcement: Roundtable on Osinga’s Science, Strategy and War
Briefly: On Monday, February 4th, Chicago Boyz will be hosting a blogging roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Colonel Frans P. Osinga. Slightly over ten years...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Introduction
Despite having been an influential and controversial figure inside the Pentagon, the late Colonel John Boyd has only recently come to wider public attention due to the excellent biography written by...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Wilf Owen
By Wilf Owen The central premise of this book is to explain the military thought of the late Colonel John Boyd. The intention is honest enough, and indeed it is somewhat extraordinary that ten years...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Dan tdaxp
A History of the OODA Loop By Dan tdaxp This post was written as part of the roundtable on Frans Osinga’s Science, Strategy, and War. Contributions have already been made by Chet Richards and Wilf...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Chet Richards
Where Boyd Got the Discourse By Chet Richards The attached chart is my contribution to the Big Boyd Blog-a-thon starting Monday, February 4, 2008, over at the Chicago Boyz blog. Boyd, like Clausewitz...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Shane Deichman
By Shane Deichman In an October 1939 radio broadcast, Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union as “… a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The same can be said of the late Colonel John...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Historyguy99
By Historyguy99 Col/Dr Frans P.B. Osinga of the Neatherlands Air Force wrote this work as his doctoral thesis. It is a superb, clearly written journey into the mind of a great thinker. For myself,...
View ArticleSWJ Blog: Hoffman on Osinga and Boyd
I’d like to highlight a post that, while not part of the roundtable unfolding here, certainly represents an informed and welcome addition to the discussion of John Boyd’s strategic vision as analyzed...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Zenpundit
Much of this roundtable discussion and the the larger conversation on other sites, has centered on the merit of John Boyd’s ideas and how well-deserved is his rising reputation as a strategic thinker....
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: Author’s Reply by Frans Osinga
My struggle with Boyd by Colonel Frans Osinga, PhD Boyd’s work is titled A Discourse on Winning and Losing and the series of reviews and comments form exactly the sort of intellectual interaction Boyd...
View ArticleOsinga Roundtable on Science, Strategy and War – Applying Boyd: Adam Elkus
This post by Adam Elkus represents the final, formal, contribution to this Roundtable and fittingly, after much discussion about grand strategy and John Boyd’s discourse, Elkus applies Boyd to our...
View ArticleNEW BOOK: The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy and War
Re-posted from Zenpundit.com at the request of my co-author Lexington Green: The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War This post has been a long time coming. A while back, we had a...
View ArticleJohn and Carl, Sittin’ Under a Tree…
Disembodied Floating Clausewitz Head Genghis John Recent outbreaks in the ongoing Cold War between advocates of Maj.Gen. Carl von Clausewitz, KPB and advocates of Col. John Boyd, USAF (ret) coincided...
View ArticleThe ghost at all our feasts: three lectures by Adam Tooze
One of Zenpundit’s most influential book recommendations for me was The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze. Wages of Destruction made most other books on...
View ArticleFaustian Ambition (rerun)
A post on ambition at another blog (in 2010) , which included a range of quotations on the subject, inspired me to think that I might be able to write an interesting essay on the topic of ambition in...
View ArticleReopening — II (Theory)
That’s all very well in practice, but how does it work in theory? — old University of Chicago joke I expect this blog’s readership to demand the theoretical considerations, so here’s a (non-exhaustive)...
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