Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, The Ooda Loop, And America's War On TerrorISBN13:9781451589818ISBN10:1451589816Author:Ford, Daniel (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - John Boyd Was Arguably The Greatest American Military Theorist Since The Sea Power Strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan At The Turn Of The 20Th Century Best Known For His Formulation Of The Ooda Loop As A Model For Competitive Decision Making, Colonel Boyd Was Also An Original Thinker In Developing Tactics For Air-To-Air Combat, Designing Warplanes, And The Fluid, Mobile Warfare Known To The Germans As Blitzkrieg And To Modern Armies As Maneuver Warfare As Much As Anyone, John Boyd Was The Architect Of The Two Great Campaigns Against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Both The 1991 Liberation Of Kuwait And The 2003 March Up To Baghdad By The U S Army And Marines But What Of The Costly, Drawn-Out Insurgency That Baffled The Invaders Once Baghdad Had Fallen? In This Short Book, Daniel Ford Applies Boyd's Thinking To The Problem Of Counter-Insurgency Unlike The U S Military In 2003, It Turns Out That Boyd Had Indeed Put Considerable Thought Into What Might Transpire After An Effective Blitz Campaign Indeed, He Found Many Similarities Between Blitzers And What He Preferred To Call Guerrillas, And He Thought That They Might Be Defeated By Turning Their Own Tactics Against Them This Is An Expanded Version Of A Dissertation Submitted In The War Studies Program At King's College London Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2010-05-04Weight:0.24 lbsDimensions:0.15'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:74Language:English
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Book Title: Vision So Noble : John Boyd, the Ooda Loop, and America's War on Terror
Number of Pages: 74 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Topic: Military / Strategy, Military / United States
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: History
Item Weight: 5.8 Oz
Author: Daniel Ford
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
