Boyd
A difficult genius fights the Pentagon bureaucracy and changes how America's armed forces fight.
Robert Coram’s biography of John Boyd, the fighter pilot and military theorist. Boyd was brilliant, abrasive and constantly at war with the bureaucracy around him, yet his ideas on aerial combat, aircraft design and strategy, including the OODA loop, reshaped how the American military fights.
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Morgan Housel
Boyd is an excellent story on brute-force learning, focus, and bureaucracy.
Article · May 2017
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