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Science, Strategy and WarThe Strategic Theory of John BoydProefschriftter verkrijging vande graad van Doctoraan de Universiteit Leiden,op gezag van de Rector Magnificus Prof. Dr. D.D. Breimer,hoogleraar in de faculteit der Wiskunde enNatuurwetenschappen en die der Geneeskunde,volgens besluit van het College voor Promotieste verdedigen op dinsdag 11 januari 2005klokke 14.15 uurdoorFrans Osingageboren te Leeuwarden in 1963
Page 4 and 5: PROMOTIECOMMISSIEPromotorProf. Dr.
Page 6 and 7: First Lt. John Boyd in the cockpit
Page 8 and 9: Polanyi and the tacit dimension ...
Page 10 and 11: Introduction.......................
Page 12 and 13: the Air Force. His expertise develo
Page 14 and 15: A theory with such an accolade invi
Page 16 and 17: This indicates that Boyd’s concep
Page 18 and 19: describing how a system operates. T
Page 20 and 21: Objective and thesisIn light of the
Page 22 and 23: shaping his work lies in his views
Page 25 and 26: opposing wills using force to resol
Page 27 and 28: vacuum: if the strategic function i
Page 29 and 30: important respects from what is gen
Page 31 and 32: (both aim to achieve a goal through
Page 33 and 34: ecognize and eliminate the weeds th
Page 35 and 36: Strategic theory often has an impac
Page 37 and 38: Clausewitz’s book not simply the
Page 39 and 40: politically constituted’. Interes
Page 41 and 42: model of theory posited by the natu
Page 43 and 44: supplies, depend upon large-scale s
Page 45 and 46: The ideal of Newtonian science exci
Page 47 and 48: on Jomini springs from, and his ref
Page 49 and 50: has to rely on only his presentatio
Page 51 and 52: 1927 Born in Erie, Pennsylvania1946
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graduate in 1962 and get a posting
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involvement with fighter developmen
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He developed the ability to see air
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intellectual theme that is hidden w
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Conduct of War Boyd found reference
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Boyd also resembles Liddell Hart in
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sought by playing upon the fears of
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The wish for preservation also info
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one’s army can be released with t
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the fatigued, with the sated await
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The extraordinary forces are used t
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with, it is Sun Tzu. And the ideas
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strategic thinking 103 . If so, it
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The Israeli experience during 1973,
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conventional military force and any
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alternative of the maneuver school
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Boyd contributed with his conceptio
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arguments Boyd developed. It is no
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(d) Boyd was aware of this shift;(e
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sciences and culture. It was a tumu
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angry manifestos and denunciations
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All theories are being subjected to
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or concepts are brought into an old
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through several overlapping network
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concepts, fundamental laws and theo
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this end, the concept - and its int
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under the same conditions will come
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system in which complex structures
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any new system we must construct or
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“Evolutionary Paradigm” 108 and
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We will use this scheme of pulling
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General Systems TheorySystems think
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cannot be ignored in Boyd’s often
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Interestingly, Boyd resembles Bates
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which challenges existing schemas,
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(1978) and P.E. Vernon; Creativity
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Drawing together these tenets, Garw
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descriptions were believed to be ob
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These insights implied, for Boyd, t
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5. COMPLETING THE SHIFTPhysicists,
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equilibrium and evolve constantly,
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of energy on the other. In certain
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meaningless. Interestingly for unde
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From chemistry to life: autopoiesis
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larger molecules of greater complex
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Physical as well as electrical and
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Correspondingly, the complex system
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Gell-Mann also addresses maladaptiv
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This requires a grand strategy that
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complex adaptive system. In fact, a
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Prigogine observes, ‘nature is in
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Novelty enters strategy when Boyd c
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members of the Santa Fe Institute,
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systems, not only are the specific
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pose the most risk for incidents ge
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Lissack asserts, in a complex world
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probably not since victory was seiz
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Some arrangements of connections wi
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predictability in an overall sense,
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these three tendencies, like an obj
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There is yet a third type of chance
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This overview, despite being far fr
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enriches the cumulative inductive a
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of the scientific and cultural Zeit
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a system disintegrating after the b
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6. CORE ARGUMENTS‘Patterns of Con
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Boyd’s ‘Abstract’ of A Discou
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improve our capacity for independen
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synthesis, and integration since we
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again, we use observations to sharp
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some kind of relief is available, w
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Patterns of Conflict is a prime ref
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Fuller’s book), since ‘both tre
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and terror produced fear, anxiety a
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The aim for Clausewitz, Boyd though
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mentally and tactically in parallel
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Cloud/distort signature and improve
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(guerrilla) war. This resulted in m
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within the opponent and those that
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officer training institution which
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adversary thru the tactical, grand
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for insurrection/revolution by infi
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People feelings and thoughts must b
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tactics in 1918. Indeed then, for B
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Maneuver conflict. Notwithstanding
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Thus the essence of maneuver confli
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This leads to two wrap-up slides on
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Towards a new conceptualization of
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Similar ideas are incorporated in B
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TherebyManeuver adversary beyond hi
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Morally-mentally-physically isolate
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Theme for vitality and growthBoyd i
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Shift from such an ambiguous or mis
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subdue those moral-mental-physical
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this part includes physical actions
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7. EXPLORATION AND REFINEMENTIntrod
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snapshots, or “samples from histo
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Orientation is an interactive proce
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of system with its surroundings, th
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War, an example which according to
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whereasAppreciation, as part of lea
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he wants to get across in an exampl
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withdrawing old fibers from previou
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“Social Order and the General The
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character or nature of a system wit
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The point of these questions is tha
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vitality and growth, with the oppor
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A Moral Design for Grand StrategyIf
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conceptualization of the essence of
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By exploiting the theme contained w
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Grand MessageThis long list of past
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The presence and production of mism
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Novelty generated by the thinking a
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Without a many-sided implicit cross
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Observation is the task that detect
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this level, as well as at the strat
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disposal. They should however opera
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while the present OODA loops shape
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OODA loop of the opponent will lead
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oth accounts. Also on the question
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and complexity theory, and emphasiz
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tactical, operational, strategic an
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life are also in tune with post-mod
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economy to describe how economic we
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nature of individuals: a person is
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From a military perspective this so
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of strategic theory and military do
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decades various authors have applie
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explain, and to derive insights and
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destruction is a humanizing trend a
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Third Wave, economies likely, at le
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to precision warfare or knowledge i
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The close parallels with Boydian mi
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NCW, according to its advocates, is
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strikes, maneuver, planning, commun
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process of analysis and synthesis,
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Closing the loopJohn Boyd is dead b
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ANNEX A : BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DESTRUCTI
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Cole, K.C. , “Sympathetic Vibrati
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Pike, Douglas, “PAVN: Peoples Arm
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BIBLIOGRAPHYAdams, Thomas K.: ‘Th
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Boyer, Peter, J.: ‘The New War Ma
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Department of Defense: Field Manual
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Gompert, David, Richard Kugler and
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Khalizad, Zalmay M., and John P. Wh
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Mayr, Ernst: The Growth of Biologic
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Perlmutter, Amos: ‘Carl von Claus
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Smith, Steve: ‘The Increasing Ins
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CURRICULUM VITAEFrans Osinga was bo
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