{"id":1081,"date":"2005-02-23T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2005-02-23T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T03:24:00","slug":"1081","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>JOHN BOYD&#8217;S MAGNUM OPUS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m nearing the end of Robert Coram&#8217;s bio of maverick fighter pilot turned theorist, John Boyd. Had Tom Barnett not endorsed the significance of Boyd&#8217;s contribution to military thought I&#8217;d have probably tossed the book on my towering &#8221; to be read eventually&#8221; pile  with no particular hurry to get to it. Reading Coram&#8217;s book, which is, as <strong>praktike <\/strong>had commented, somewhat light, spurred me to take a firsthand look at Boyd&#8217;s work, so I found a copy of  his paper\/brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belisarius.com\/modern_business_strategy\/spinney\/ev_epis\/evolutionary_1.htm\">&#8221; Destruction and Creation&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man was a visionary genius. We should all see so far.<\/p>\n<p>(straight text version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belisarius.com\/modern_business_strategy\/boyd\/destruction\/destruction_and_creation.htm\">here).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN BOYD&#8217;S MAGNUM OPUS I&#8217;m nearing the end of Robert Coram&#8217;s bio of maverick fighter pilot turned theorist, John Boyd. Had Tom Barnett not endorsed the significance of Boyd&#8217;s contribution to military thought I&#8217;d have probably tossed the book on my towering &#8221; to be read eventually&#8221; pile with no particular hurry to get to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}