Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

The attached article is a very important and informative essay.  Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing.  I regard …

Graphic: OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act)

Simplified: Nuanced: Credit Simplied Credit Nuanced See Also: Journal: Spinney, Boyd, Green, Kuhn on “Can America Be Salvaged?–Public Intelligence Aspects” Review: Boyd–The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War Review (Guest): Science, Strategy and War–The Strategic Theory of John Boyd

John Robb: Trump Insurgency is Dead, Trump Captured…

The OODA loop of Trump’s Insurgency has been Smashed That insurgency is now over.  Its OODA loop is smashed. Worried that Trump would end existing US spending/policies (largely, still geared to cold war priorities), the senior military staff running the Trump administration launched a counter-insurgency against the insurgency. They have been successful (if only they …

Royal Danish Defence College: Official Minutes from Seminar on Open Source Intelligence, 19 April 2016

Minutes from Royal Danish Defence College Seminar on Open Source Intelligence, 19. April 2016. The Seminar on Open Source Intelligence at the Royal Danish Defence College, Tuesday 19th April 2016 has now come to an end. From a hosting perspective, we consider the event as being very successful. We had more than 140 participants with …