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Hello Chet, Just a personal note here. I visited Chuck Spinneys blog, The Blaster, and have noted that he has not posted anything since September. I hope he is alright.
I correspond with him occasionally. He’s fine, just busy with other things right now.
Might interest you that the OODA Loop is taught in a philosophy course (Organizational Ethics, University of Texas, Prof. Daniel Bonevac)
It does. Thanks!
Me again. This time with a book that might interest you :
Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes: The Control and Directed Evolution of Organized Conflict, by Rodrick Wallace, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030264239
From the description: “[…] A central feature of the book is a formal description of the famous OODA loop of the US military theorist John Boyd in terms of the Data Rate Theorem that links control and information theories.[…]”
Don’t suppose we could prevail upon you to do a review?
Other videos that might interest you. This time more on point, I think.
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Hello, Chet.
Have you ever played the board game Go?
I was watching a Patterns of Conflict recording on YouTube, and it almost sounds like John Boyd is talking about Go strategy when discussing Sun Tzu.
John Boyd and Sun Tzu playing Go would actually be a cool DeviantArt drawing if people who could draw were into military strategists.
Very astute observation. Although I never heard John mention Go, the parallels are quite deep. I wrote on Go in my last book, If We Can Keep It, starting on p. 107. What got me on to this was David Lai’s paper, “Learning from the Stones,” available at https://fas.org/man/eprint/lai.pdf. Would be interesting to know how well the CCP is sticking to this strategy rather than a tit-for-tat approach (e.g., your tariff, my tariff) that’s more like chess.
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