Heavy breathing on the line: Boyd and the hare

[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees]

Sigh

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? Raises question ?

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What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it?

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Ask Colonel John Boyd, USAF (1927-1997)…

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Namedrop John Boyd

What do most respondants think?

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Uncritical Insight

John Boyd is a cheerleader jumping up and down on the sidelines chanting “faster! Faster!! FASTER!!!”.

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Uncritical Insight (cont.)

This reduces Boyd to:

1. Go fast.
2. Go faster.
3. Go ludicrous speed.
4. Profit!!!

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? – Raises Question  – ?

Is this man a cheerleader?

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? and ?

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Critique

NO

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Notice

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Key Asymmetry

When Boyd smiles, he’s 100 million light years away from being a cheerleader.

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Key Asymmetry (cont.)

If a Boyd particle barely brushed a cheerleader particle, it would annihilate it, leaving behind nothing but:

1. a tremendous burst of energy
2. plans for a better fighter plane than the F-35 at 1/1,000,000th the cost.

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Critical Insight

To understand Boyd, understand the battle of Leuctra (371 B.C.)

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Message

Boyd argued victory came by creating of a fatal disconnect between enemy and reality through:

• mental isolation
• moral isolation
• physical isolation

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Message (cont.) 

All three are critical to the originality of Boyd’s thought:

Boyd was thinking outside the box.

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Message (cont.) 

This box:

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Message (cont.) 

More particularly, this box:

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