NEW BOOK – The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy and War

September 22nd, 2008 by zen

We had an excellent roster of contributors for The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War – Dr. Chet Richards, Daniel Abbott, Shane Deichman, Frank Hoffman, Adam Elkus, Lexington Green, Thomas Wade and Dr. Frans Osinga, who contributed several essays. Dr. Thomas Barnett sets the intellectual tone in the foreword after which the authors brought a wide range of professional perspectives to bear – cognitive psychology, military history, physics, strategy, journalism and, of course, blogging – in a series of articles that tried to explain the essence and dimensions of John Boyd’s contribution to strategic thought.  Hopefully, we succeeded in creating an interesting and useful primer but the readers will be the ultimate judges, free to dispute our conclusions and offer contending arguments of their own.

I’d like to think that Colonel Boyd would have wanted it that way.

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  1. UrbanBytes » Blog Archive » NEW BOOK - The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy and War:

    September 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 am

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  2. Kotare:

    September 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Can’t wait to read it. Well done to everyone who worked on it. 

  3. Charles Cameron (hipbone):

    September 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Terrific — congratulations, Mark.

  4. tdaxp » Blog Archive » Debating Science, Strategy, and War:

    September 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    […] news is on HG’s world, Wizards of Oz, zenpundit, blog, and it’s great: Nimble Books has now released The John Boyd Roundtable:Debating […]

  5. Jay@Soob:

    September 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    Is it available for sale now?

  6. Jay@Soob:

    September 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Yep, and I’m an impolite bastard!

    A hearty congratulations, editing that book couldn’t have been an easy task.

  7. Shlok Vaidya’s Thinking › Review: The John Boyd Roundtable:

    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 am

    […] to Mark for passing along a review copy of the book. It’s a solid short read (my kind of […]

  8. zen:

    September 23rd, 2008 at 3:57 am

    Much thanks everyone !
    .
    Jay, it was more time-consuming than "hard". Nimble shared the load and gave me a lot of leeway, which helped. A great company for new authors!

  9. Smitten Eagle:

    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    I cant wait to get this too!

    Surely it will go from my anti-library to the quantum library.

  10. James F:

    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    just ordered – looking forward to it – great work on getting it done mark.

  11. Allene:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 am

    You write very well.

  12. On War, Online « ubiwar . conflict in n dimensions:

    November 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    […] an extensive Clausewitz roundtable discussion come the New Year, somewhat similar in format to the Boyd roundtable they held a while ago. Book by book, a pretty impressive group of bloggers and military types will […]