{"id":3958,"date":"2011-05-09T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2011-05-09T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:20:31","slug":"barnett-at-battleland-right-out-of-john-boyds-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Barnett at Battleland: &#8220;Right out of John Boyd&#8217;s strategy&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thomaspmbarnett.com\/\">Dr. Barnett<\/a><\/strong> is now a blogger for <strong>TIME Magazine&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Battleland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/battleland.blogs.time.com\/2011\/05\/09\/right-out-of-john-boyds-strategy-disconnect-isolate-disempower-your-enemy\/\">Right out of John Boyd&#8217;s strategy: disconnect, isolate &amp; disempower your enemy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>But Osama, looking far older than his 54 years, had none of that. \u00a0He was down to just a sad little entourage, and his comms were reduced to thumb drives smuggled in now and then. He is isolated, almost imprisoned, and he looks like a man sapped of all vitality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This is right out of American strategist John Boyd&#8217;s playbook: \u00a0you beat your enemy by isolating him, denying him allies, keeping him in the dark and &#8211; bit by bit &#8211; wearing down his energy:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwhitehorse.com\/pdfs\/1.%20c2_ala_Boyd-2004.pdf\"><strong>&#8220;Interaction permits\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwhitehorse.com\/pdfs\/1.%20c2_ala_Boyd-2004.pdf\"><strong>vitality<\/strong><\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwhitehorse.com\/pdfs\/1.%20c2_ala_Boyd-2004.pdf\"><strong>\u00a0and growth, while isolation leads to decay and disintegration.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/battleland.blogs.time.com\/2011\/05\/09\/right-out-of-john-boyds-strategy-disconnect-isolate-disempower-your-enemy\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Barnett is now a blogger for TIME Magazine&#8217;s Battleland Right out of John Boyd&#8217;s strategy: disconnect, isolate &amp; disempower your enemy But Osama, looking far older than his 54 years, had none of that. \u00a0He was down to just a sad little entourage, and his comms were reduced to thumb drives smuggled in now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,5,129,321,338,127,530,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-barnett","category-blogging","category-blogosphere","category-john-boyd","category-strategy","category-strategy-and-war","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}