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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New York
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- 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