The OODA Loop describes concepts that existed before recorded history but this term and the explanation for it originated with US Air Force colonel John Boyd, who helped develop the Energy–maneuverability theory and passionately advocated for a lightweight fighter and lobbied for the F-16 to be an air-to-air mission specialist craft.
This was a really, really good article about general organization (decision making & problem solving) from political to company to military. My god what society we could have if the government could read this.
It was said that when the Vietnamese farmer choose the place for his rice field he did so with a foresight of a 100 years so his family, and their families after him (and so on) could prosper (was it Uncle Ho that said that?) as we in the west see only four years ahead in time.
My issue is that too many people wants to exchange democracy due to its overburdened bureaucracy and its difficulties in solving problems during a voters life time. The individual citizen is at many times a grass root “orientational influence observer” (observing the way society heads) that is largely ignored and forgotten (as you related to the individual soldier) and that drops efficiency and morale (in whole society in extension). Unfortunately any imaginary substitute to democracy is persons (read singular, usually “a leader”), that “promise change”, and we (person/s that have any understanding of history) know how that goes.
As I see it from your articles the Ooda loop is an open tool (neutral to purpose) to gain efficiency and I think western states should pay more attention to what is happening out side the old bureaucracy bubble/machinery (instead of being surprised by the external environment over and over again) to actually get things on the road. The Ooda loop has an odd sense a purity(?) by logic (filtering information to relative clarity) when it comes to figuring out how to take proper actions/decisions, but I also believe (at least in theory) that this is a tool by its own mechanics that can expose where things does not work (knots that needs to be untied) hence a great tool for any society (that has accumulated too many knots).
This was a really, really good article about general organization (decision making & problem solving) from political to company to military. My god what society we could have if the government could read this.
It also depends on the goals that are set. A lot of companies and governments focus on short-term goals instead of long-term goals.
It was said that when the Vietnamese farmer choose the place for his rice field he did so with a foresight of a 100 years so his family, and their families after him (and so on) could prosper (was it Uncle Ho that said that?) as we in the west see only four years ahead in time.
My issue is that too many people wants to exchange democracy due to its overburdened bureaucracy and its difficulties in solving problems during a voters life time. The individual citizen is at many times a grass root “orientational influence observer” (observing the way society heads) that is largely ignored and forgotten (as you related to the individual soldier) and that drops efficiency and morale (in whole society in extension). Unfortunately any imaginary substitute to democracy is persons (read singular, usually “a leader”), that “promise change”, and we (person/s that have any understanding of history) know how that goes.
As I see it from your articles the Ooda loop is an open tool (neutral to purpose) to gain efficiency and I think western states should pay more attention to what is happening out side the old bureaucracy bubble/machinery (instead of being surprised by the external environment over and over again) to actually get things on the road. The Ooda loop has an odd sense a purity(?) by logic (filtering information to relative clarity) when it comes to figuring out how to take proper actions/decisions, but I also believe (at least in theory) that this is a tool by its own mechanics that can expose where things does not work (knots that needs to be untied) hence a great tool for any society (that has accumulated too many knots).