Editing John Boyd (military strategist) (section)

===OODA loop===
[[File:OODA.Boyd.svg|thumb|right|366x366px|The OODA loop]]
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Based on his experiences in Thailand during the [[Vietnam War]], Boyd conjectured that that the attrition-firepower model of warfare (prevalent since the [[Industrial Revolution]]) would become less important in future conflicts, and the ability to rapidly and accurately acquire and act on information would grow in importance.<ref name="Lock-Pullan">{{cite book |last=Lock-Pullan |first=Richard |date=2006 |title=US Intervention Policy and Army Innovation: From Vietnam to Iraq |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeqQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Routledge |page=74 |isbn=978-1-1357-6505-7 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> In the early 1970s, he developed these observations into a key concept called the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, repeat), a decision making cycle that provided an entity (either an individual or an organization) with foreseeable and planned responses to external events.<ref name="Lock-Pullan"/> The OODA loop has since been used as the core for a theory of [[litigation strategy]] that unifies the use of [[cognitive science]] and [[game theory]] to shape the actions of witnesses and opposing counsel.<ref>Dreier 2012, pp. 74–85.</ref> It has also been proposed as a tool for work-based learning and management education.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ryder |first1=Mike |last2=Downs |first2=Carolyn |title=Rethinking reflective practice: John Boyd's OODA loop as an alternative to Kolb |journal=The International Journal of Management Education |date=November 2022 |volume=20 |issue=3 |page=100703 |doi=10.1016/j.ijme.2022.100703 |s2cid=252152374 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ryder |first1=Mike |editor1-last=Wall |editor1-first=Tony |editor2-last=Trevisan |editor2-first=Laís Viera |editor3-last=Filho |editor3-first=Walter Leal |editor4-last=Shore |editor4-first=Adam |title=Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices |date=2024 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-031-55995-2 |pages=77-89 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-55996-9_6 |chapter=Using OODA Loops to Build Sustainable Practice into Business Education}}</ref>