Boyd the fighter pilot who changed the art of war
A detailed portrait of American fighter pilot John Boyd examines his distinguished military career during the Korean War and his postwar efforts as a military theorist who took on the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy to transform the art of modern warfare and the American military with his revolution
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Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
[2002]
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Fighter pilot -- Haunted beginnings -- The Big Jock and the Presbyterian -- Fledgling -- K-13 and MiG Alley -- High priest -- Pope John goes severely supersonic -- Rat-racing -- Forty-second Boyd and the tactics manual -- 2. Engineer -- Thermo, entropy, and the breakthrough -- P5 = [T-D over W] V -- The Sugarplum Fairy spreads the Gospel -- Pull thee wings off and paint it yellow -- "I've never designed a fighter plane before" -- Bigger-higher-faster-farther -- Saving the F-15 -- Ride of the Valkyries -- The fighter mafia does the Lord's work -- A short-legged bird -- Spook base -- Take a look at the B-1 -- Take a look at the B-1 -- "This briefing is for information purposes only" -- The Buttonhook Turn -- 3. Scholar -- Destruction and creation -- OODA Loop -- Reform -- The great wheel of conspiracy -- Boyd joins the Marines -- Semper Fi -- Water-walker -- They think I'm a kook -- The Ghetto Colonel and the SecDef -- Epilogue : El Cid rides on | |
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| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Boyd, John |d 1927-1997 |
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