I've tried to engage with you before, but your arguments are strawmen and non-sequiturs, they are simple-minded, they don't address the issues I raise, and they are out touch with reality.
And of course you can quote whoever you want. But just because you were in the AF doesn't mean that you are right. I work in the big leagues, and if you are bulls!tting -- whether or not you're wearing a uniform -- it will be apparent.
I have a helluva lot of respect for enlisted folks. My dad was an E-9 in the Navy, and I learned a lot about leadership and common sense from him. And I learned when to be quiet. When I worked in a lab, I had some enlisted guys assigned to my branch. Guys that had been overseas and lost a leg. If they told me my idea wouldn't work with a hot, stressed out 23 year old kid on a dusty road in Iraq or Afghanistan, they told us, and I sure as hell listened and respected their input.
I wanted to follow my fathers footsteps and join the sub program, but I am deaf in one ear and Rickover rejected me, so I stayed in school and got a PhD in engineering. I've worked in the defense industry since Reagan was president. I've worked in the foremost government and contractor labs, in the Pentagon, out in the field and at bases and commands. One of the labs I worked in was shut down during perestroika and glasnost and was rumored to be the first lab that the Russians wanted to tour. I've briefed Congressional staffers, and I got the memo from the Senators the next day. I have worked on the two largest DoD acquisition programs, and I've seen things that very few people have seen. Having said all of this, I'm just a lowly fed and to be honest I don't know jack sh!t, but I learned to STFU when I didn't know what I was talking about.
Sure, plenty of people studied under John Boyd. Did you?
Not sure why you bring up plagiarism. Oh yeah - just another distraction that adds NOTHING to this discussion.
The Minority Marksman.
"When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet."
-a Ch'an Buddhist axiom.
...on second thought...
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There's nothing civil about this war.
Alright Iron Resume , I’m just gonna post the PM I sent you right here. You’re right about one thing- an attempt to keep the dialogue clean was a big misfire on my part. Respond however you see fit.
This is a subject best taken to PM.
Let me be direct. Can you tell me why my quotation of Colonel Boyd was incorrect? Weapons are tools, and important ones. But the mental capabilities of the combatants matters too, and unless I’ve grossly misread Patterns of Conflict and his other briefings it’s a point not inconsistent with his writings and intent.
Pointing that out vis a vis Iran , perhaps that’s a stretch. Hell maybe they ain’t got two brain cells to share in the Tehran capital. I’m not going to proclaim myself as always correct on anything. But a capable commander with obsolete equipment is still a threat, because the mindset of the combatants counts. Deciding technology alone will win a fight is a dangerous assumption I’m sure is NOT consistent with his writings.
Would you agree? Let us leave emotion and Internet dick measuring out of the matter
The Minority Marksman.
"When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet."
-a Ch'an Buddhist axiom.
The SECDEF came out earlier and said it was not legit.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pen...ements-mistake
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776