OODA, Ouroboros — and Trump

[ by Charles Cameron — first of three relatively minor posts while awaiting Trump’s Saudi speech re Islam ]

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First off, the Boyd OODA loop — shown in the lower panel below in one of Michael Wilson‘s variant versions from Graeco-Roman Egypt — is an Ouroboros, shown in the upper panel in a version from Toward an Ontology of Integrated Intelligence & Conflict.

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Then, the loop is getting so tight here, it’s almost a tautology:

“If Donald Trump gets impeached, he will have one person to blame: Donald Trump,” one of those administration officials said.

That’s from The Daily Beast, Trump Officials: ‘He Looks More and More Like a Complete Moron’

One hardy perennial ouroboric comment about President Trump is that he has shot himself in the foot [ eg: 1, 2, 3 ] — even when he thinks abpout shooting someone else on Fifth Avenue: