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Boyd
Col. John Boyd
John Boyd WEB References -
John Boyd Reading References and Bibliography
some old 1983 email on Boyd briefings
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- 2023e.html#85 The Pentagon Gets More Moeny
- 2023e.html#64 Computing Career
- 2023e.html#60 Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad
- 2023e.html#46 Boyd OODA at Linkedin
- 2023e.html#40 Boyd OODA-loop
- 2023e.html#38 Boyd OODA-loop
- 2023e.html#17 Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition. A Blast from the Past
- 2023e.html#13 Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition. A Blast from the Past
- 2023e.html#5 Boyd and OODA-loop
- 2023d.html#116 APL
- 2023d.html#69 Fortran, IBM 1130
- 2023d.html#33 IBM 360s
- 2023d.html#13 Has the Pentagon Learned from the F-35 Debacle?
- 2023d.html#5 Success at Midway
- 2023c.html#86 IBM Commission and Quota
- 2023c.html#85 F15 & SST 2707
- 2023c.html#82 Dataprocessing Career
- 2023c.html#54 US Auto Industry
- 2023c.html#39 Not Your Grandfather's Military-Industrial-Complex
- 2023c.html#27 What Does School Teach Children?
- 2023c.html#25 IBM Downfall
- 2023c.html#21 IBM Downfall
- 2023c.html#20 IBM Downfall
- 2023c.html#11 IBM Downfall
- 2023c.html#3 IBM Breakup
- 2023b.html#102 IBM "Top Gun"
- 2023b.html#91 360 Announce Stories
- 2023b.html#75 IBM Mainframe
- 2023b.html#63 Congress Has Been Captured by the Arms Industry
- 2023b.html#37 The Architects of the Iraq War: Where Are They Now? They're all doing great, thanks for asking
- 2023b.html#17 The Military-Industrial Complex and American Fascism
- 2023.html#116 The Bunker: Tarnished Silver Bullets
- 2023.html#94 The Ladder of Incompetence: 5 Reasons We Promote the Wrong People
- 2023.html#75 The Pentagon Saw a Warship Boondoggle
- 2023.html#60 Boyd & IBM "Wild Duck" Discussion
- 2023.html#36 IBM changes between 1968 and 1989
- 2023.html#25 IBM Punch Cards
- 2023.html#22 IBM Punch Cards
- 2023.html#15 IBM Marketing, Sales, Branch Offices
- 2023.html#12 IBM Marketing, Sales, Branch Offices
- 2023.html#10 History Is Un-American. Real Americans Create Their Own Futures
- 2022h.html#121 IBM Controlling the Market
- 2022h.html#120 IBM Controlling the Market
- 2022h.html#111 OODA-loop and agility
- 2022h.html#92 Psychology of Computer Programming
- 2022h.html#88 Psychology of Computer Programming
- 2022h.html#55 More John Boyd and OODA-loop
- 2022h.html#51 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
- 2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
- 2022h.html#23 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
- 2022h.html#20 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
- 2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
- 2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
- 2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
- 2022h.html#0 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
- 2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
- 2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
- 2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
- 2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
- 2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
- 2022g.html#53 Wednesday Night Round table
- 2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
- 2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
- 2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
- 2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022g.html#20 9/11
- 2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022f.html#95 VM I/O
- 2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
- 2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022f.html#62 Air Force Maverick Who Led the "Fighter Mafia
- 2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
- 2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
- 2022f.html#36 Death By Powerpoint
- 2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022f.html#9 China VSLI Foundry
- 2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022e.html#95 Enhanced Production Operating Systems II
- 2022e.html#87 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
- 2022e.html#83 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
- 2022e.html#82 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
- 2022e.html#70 IBM Chairman John Opel
- 2022e.html#65 IBM Wild Ducks
- 2022e.html#46 IBM Chairman John Opel
- 2022e.html#39 Single Loop Thinking: Non-Reflective Military Cycles of ENDS and MEANS
- 2022e.html#21 IBM "Fast-Track" Bureaucrats
- 2022e.html#19 IBM "Fast-Track" Bureaucrats
- 2022d.html#109 Short-term profits and long-term consequences -- did Jack Welch break capitalism?
- 2022d.html#107 Short-term profits and long-term consequences -- did Jack Welch break capitalism?
- 2022d.html#106 IBM Quota
- 2022d.html#102 IBM Stretch (7030) -- Aggressive Uniprocessor Parallelism
- 2022d.html#75 "12 O'clock High" In IBM Management School
- 2022d.html#54 Another IBM Down Fall thread
- 2022d.html#36 IBM Business Conduct Guidelines
- 2022d.html#15 Russia's most advanced tank in service was obliterated by Ukraine just days after it was deployed, according to reports
- 2022c.html#38 After IBM
- 2022b.html#106 Active Defense: 2
- 2022b.html#75 Frameworks Quagmire
- 2022b.html#73 IBM Disks
- 2022b.html#37 Leadership
- 2022b.html#27 Dataprocessing Career
- 2022b.html#21 To Be Or To Do
- 2022b.html#0 Dataprocessing Career
- 2022.html#117 GM C4 and IBM HA/CMP
- 2022.html#48 Mainframe Career
- 2022.html#30 CP67 and BPS Loader
- 2021k.html#117 Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
- 2021k.html#95 Finland picks F-35
- 2021k.html#94 Finland picks F-35
- 2021k.html#93 F20/Tigershark & Directed Appropriations
- 2021k.html#70 'Flying Blind' Review: Downward Trajectory
- 2021k.html#26 Twelve O'clock High at IBM Training
- 2021k.html#25 Twelve O'clock High at IBM Training
- 2021k.html#16 Who Knew ?
- 2021j.html#113 IBM Downturn
- 2021j.html#100 Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
- 2021j.html#96 IBM 3278
- 2021j.html#70 IBM Wild Ducks
- 2021j.html#13 cryptologic museum
- 2021i.html#89 IBM Downturn
- 2021i.html#88 IBM Downturn
- 2021i.html#84 IBM Downturn
- 2021i.html#79 IBM Downturn
- 2021i.html#74 IBM MYTE
- 2021i.html#64 Virtual Machine Debugging
- 2021i.html#53 The Kill Chain
- 2021i.html#40 The Accumulated Evil of the Whole: That time Bush and Co. made the September 11 Attacks a Pretext for War on Iraq
- 2021i.html#33 Afghanistan's Corruption Was Made in America
- 2021i.html#6 The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- 2021h.html#102 An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy
- 2021h.html#96 The War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything
- 2021h.html#87 The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- 2021h.html#80 Warthog/A-10
- 2021h.html#64 WWII Pilot Barrel Rolls Boeing 707
- 2021h.html#62 An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare
- 2021h.html#61 IBM Starting Salary
- 2021h.html#38 $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
- 2021h.html#35 IBM/PC 12Aug1981
- 2021h.html#26 Whatever Happened to Six Sigma?
- 2021h.html#16 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
- 2021h.html#12 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
- 2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
- 2021h.html#1 Cloud computing's destiny
- 2021g.html#50 Who Authorized America's Wars? And Why They Never End
- 2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
- 2021g.html#11 Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering
- 2021f.html#60 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
- 2021f.html#58 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
- 2021f.html#51 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
- 2021f.html#47 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
- 2021f.html#37 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
- 2021f.html#36 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
- 2021e.html#80 Amdahl
- 2021e.html#51 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
- 2021e.html#46 SitRep: Is the F-35 officially a failure? Cost overruns, other issues prompt Air Force to look for "clean sheet" fighter
- 2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
- 2021e.html#40 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
- 2021e.html#16 IBM Internal Network
- 2021e.html#5 The Plane Paradox: More Automation Should Mean More Training
- 2021d.html#80 OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War
- 2021d.html#34 April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360
- 2021d.html#10 How Ike Led
- 2021d.html#8 A Discourse on Winning and Losing
- 2021c.html#75 Led by donkeys: Bank boardrooms lack computer literacy
- 2021c.html#48 MAINFRAME (4341) History
- 2021c.html#39 WA State frets about Boeing brain drain, but it's already happening
- 2021c.html#35 Rewarding Failure. Why Pentagon Weapons Programs Rarely Get Canceled Despite Major Problems
- 2021c.html#21 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
- 2021c.html#11 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
- 2021c.html#10 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
- 2021c.html#9 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
- 2021c.html#8 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
- 2021b.html#103 IBM Innovation
- 2021b.html#101 Three Wars, No Victory - Why?
- 2021b.html#97 IBM Glory days
- 2021b.html#96 IBM Innovation
- 2021b.html#53 IBM Research, Yorktown versus San Jose (later Almaden)
- 2021b.html#41 IBM & Boeing run by Financiers
- 2021b.html#40 IBM & Boeing run by Financiers
- 2021b.html#19 IBM Recruiting
- 2021.html#79 IBM Disk Division
- 2021.html#78 Interactive Computing
- 2021.html#73 General Dynamics F16
- 2021.html#51 Sacking the Capital and Honor
- 2021.html#49 IBM Quota
- 2021.html#48 IBM Quota
- 2021.html#45 Boyd, OODA-loop and Agile Business
- 2021.html#8 IBM CEOs
- 2021.html#0 IBM "Wild Ducks"
- 2020.html#46 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
- 2020.html#45 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
- 2020.html#44 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
- 2020.html#43 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
- 2020.html#29 Online Computer Conferencing
- 2020.html#16 Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
- 2020.html#12 Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
- 2019e.html#158 Goliath
- 2019e.html#138 Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
- 2019e.html#130 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
- 2019e.html#128 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
- 2019e.html#99 Is America ready to tackle economic inequality?
- 2019e.html#83 Collins radio and Braniff Airways 1945
- 2019e.html#77 Collins radio 1956
- 2019e.html#70 Since 2001 We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War
- 2019e.html#54 Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress
- 2019e.html#18 Before the First Shots Are Fired
- 2019e.html#16 Before the First Shots Are Fired
- 2019e.html#15 Before the First Shots Are Fired
- 2019e.html#7 ISO9000, Six Sigma
- 2019d.html#104 F-35
- 2019d.html#100 Destruction of Middle Class
- 2019d.html#94 The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
- 2019d.html#93 The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
- 2019d.html#91 Why F-5s Beat Out F-16s For The Navy's Latest Commercial Aggressor Contract
- 2019d.html#69 Decline of IBM
- 2019d.html#60 IBM 360/67
- 2019d.html#39 The Roots of Boeing's 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight
- 2019d.html#38 Trump's Message to U.S. Intelligence Officials: Be Loyal or Leave
- 2019c.html#67 Range
- 2019c.html#66 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
- 2019c.html#61 'End Forever Wars' is a Sound Bite, Not a Security Policy
- 2019c.html#60 America's Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military
- 2019c.html#59 The rise and fall of IBM
- 2019c.html#55 The Threat Actor You Can't Detect: Cognitive Bias
- 2019c.html#51 Dissecting Strategic Decision Making: #Reviewing Leap of Faith
- 2019c.html#49 IBM NUMBERS BIPOLAR'S DAYS WITH G5 CMOS MAINFRAMES
- 2019c.html#30 Coup D'Oeil: Strategic Intuition in Army Planning
- 2019c.html#25 virtual memory
- 2019c.html#21 Mitch McConnell has done far more to destroy democratic norms than Donald Trump
- 2019c.html#20 The Book of Five Rings
- 2019b.html#95 Why hiring the 'best' people produces the least creative results
- 2019b.html#80 TCM
- 2019b.html#68 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
- 2019b.html#38 Reminder over in linkedin, IBM Mainframe announce 7April1964
- 2019b.html#36 Why "Many-Model Thinkers" Make Better Decisions
- 2019b.html#34 Why "Many-Model Thinkers" Make Better Decisions
- 2019b.html#32 The American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Century
- 2019.html#82 The Sublime: Is it the same for IBM and Special Ops?
- 2019.html#69 Digital Planes
- 2019.html#61 Employees Come First
- 2019.html#55 Bureaucracy and Agile
- 2019.html#54 IBM bureaucracy
- 2019.html#40 Indian Wars
- 2019.html#34 The Rise of Leninist Personnel Policies
- 2019.html#24 JOHN BOYD AND THE "OODA" LOOP
- 2019.html#12 Employees Come First
- 2018f.html#95 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
- 2018f.html#89 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
- 2018f.html#81 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?