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Boyd and Military Strategy
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Warfighting, Brought to You by John Boyd
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Robert Coram | New
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... The purpose of this paper is to explain how I adapted a process model developed
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JOHN BOYD SYMPOSIUM
... Pvt57@aol.com" BULLETIN. The works of the late Colonel John Boyd, USAF
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As usual, backhoe, you are the man with the comprehensive dossier. Since I was a driver in the Marine fighter community during the relevant period [early 60's through early 70's], I can confirm that we were instructed in the basic concepts of energy maneuverablility and used them every day. Boyd's mathematics and charts were a little beyond a lot of us, but, when you were going up the front side of the egg, [after the head-on pass] you better unload a little during the decel through the transonic range or you'll dig in and give your opponent an automatic 200' altitude advantage going over the top of the egg - bummer, gotta do a layout, light it up and scoot. That is all John Boyd. In fact, according to one of his charts which I saw in the mid 60's, from an energy maneuverability standpoint, one of the toughest birds in the whole US inventory was the F-106. We used to hassle with them down at Tyndall-very hard to work against if properly handled, which they mostly weren't. Of course the Air Farce was too stupid to put a gatling gun in them and turn them into a true, slip and slide, eat your lunch, dogfighter. Anyhow, saw Boyd once at Cherry Point - he was right in the ready room, talking to us, the drivers, as opposed to the Wing Commander. A most impressive man, even then marked for destruction by the Air Farce Coneheads.