Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd

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Stephen Robinson, author of The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War, joins the show to talk about Boyd, the man who developed the concept of “maneuver warfare,” and what Boyd may have gotten wrong.

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• 01:21 Introduction

• 02:24 “A genuine polymath”

• 04:20 The OODA Loop

• 07:39 J.F.C. Fuller and B.H. Liddell Hart

• 13:28 The conventional blitzkrieg

• 19:26 Maneuver warfare

• 25:01 Cannae

• 29:07 Tactical success to operational failure

• 34:07 Post-Vietnam U.S. military woes

• 37:24 Active defense

• 43:31 Skeptical of technology

• 48:07 The Defense Reform Movement

• 53:50 Iraqi Freedom

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