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Without a many-sided implicit cross-referencing process of projection, empathy,correlation, and rejection (across these many different domains or channels ofinformation), we cannot even do analysis and synthesis.Without OODA loops we can neither sense, hence observe, thereby collect a variety ofinformation for the above processes, nor decide as well as implement actions in accordwith those processes.Or put another wayWithout OODA loops embracing all the above and without the ability to get insideother OODA loops (or other environments), we will find it impossible to comprehend,shape, adapt to, and in turn be shaped by an unfolding, evolving reality that is uncertain,everchanging, unpredictable.It is only a slight stretch of imagination to suggest that in the last statement Boyd connectsgrand tactics with epistemology. The next slide then offers the full graphic rendering of thecybernetic double-loop decision-making model. A comparison with the simplified but mostfrequently used model of the OODA loop process and the picture below shows a muchmore complicated, more comprehensive, richer and deeper process, one which clearlysuggests that there is more to Boyd’s theory than the idea of rapid OODA looping. InBoyd’s hands, the model gains a much wider application and more profound meaning 112 :112 Ibid, p.4.269