Warning Analysis for the Information Age - Higgins Counterterrorism ...
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MESSAGE■ Suppress tendency to build-up explicit internal arrangements that hinder interactionwith <strong>the</strong> external world.Instead■ Arrange settings and circumstances so that leaders and subordinates alike aregiven opportunity to continuously interact with external world, and each o<strong>the</strong>r,in order to more quickly make many-sided implicit cross-referencing projections,empathies, correlations, and rejections as well as create <strong>the</strong> similarimages or impressions, hence a similar implicit orientation, needed to <strong>for</strong>m anorganic whole.Why?■ A similar implicit orientation <strong>for</strong> commanders and subordinates alike willallow <strong>the</strong>m to://❏ Diminish <strong>the</strong>ir friction and reduce time, <strong>the</strong>reby permit <strong>the</strong>m to:❏ Exploit variety/rapidity while maintaining harmony/initiative, <strong>the</strong>rebypermit <strong>the</strong>m to:❏ Get inside <strong>the</strong> adversary’s O-O-D-A loops, <strong>the</strong>reby:❏ Magnify adversary’s friction, and stretch-out his time (<strong>for</strong> a favorable mismatchin friction and time), <strong>the</strong>reby:❏ Deny <strong>the</strong> adversary <strong>the</strong> opportunity to cope with events/ef<strong>for</strong>ts as <strong>the</strong>yunfold. 22The Newtonian paradigm only deals with <strong>the</strong> physical world. The New Sciencemust deal with <strong>the</strong> conceptual world. Even as simple a control system as a<strong>the</strong>rmostat uses an OODA Cycle to Observe <strong>the</strong> world, Orient against its internalmodel whe<strong>the</strong>r that world is too hot or cold enough, Decide whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> airconditioner should be ON or OFF, and Act to ensure that it is in <strong>the</strong> properstate. There<strong>for</strong>e, we need not only to understand <strong>the</strong> adversary’s OODA Cyclebut our own as well be<strong>for</strong>e we can provide <strong>the</strong> proper orientation to make <strong>the</strong>best decision.22 Col Boyd.38