Fascinating Reads: John Boyd And Orienting to Context (i.e., Driving Adaptive Rate)

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

For those who know, there's a unbroken, inter-disciplinary link between:

Wallace_&_Darwin => Walter Shewhart => W.E. Deming => Toyota Production System => John Boyd

There's too much to discuss or read in one post, so here are some references just about Boyd, to start with. One can work backwards from there, just as Boyd did.

On The Making of History: John Boyd and American Security
http://www.usafa.edu/df/dfh/docs/Harmon54.pdf

BOYD ON AL QAEDA'S GRAND STRATEGY
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/05/journal_boyd_on.html

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/158365-1/Robert+Coram.aspx

John Boyd’s Art of War
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/

Introduction to the Strategic Theories of John Boyd
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/compendium-colonel-john-boyds.html

ps: Paradigm, of course, refers to the set of methods which an aggregate (molecular, CNS or culture) uses while attempting to orient - successfully or not - to context, as the backbone of Adaptive Rate.

ps: ps: Shewhart's PDSA cycle looks at mfg adjustments post policy decisions, a method which Deming tried to push into policy & governance itself, and which Boyd re-named from the policy/goal/outcome perspective as the OODA Cycle or OODA Loop.