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Article: A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review?(Book Review)
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- Military Review
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- January 1, 2004
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A SWIFT, ELUSIVE SWORD: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd did a National Defense Review? Chester W. Richards, Center for Defense Information, Washington, DC, 2001, 84 pages, price unavailable.
Two cheers for Chester W. Richards. His slim book provides a welcome reminder that simply providing more high-technology hardware to the U.S. military will not solve all of our security problems.
Richards is a disciple of the late military thinker Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Boyd is probably best known for his notion of besting an adversary by "getting inside his OODA (observe, orient, decide, and act) loop." Richards repeatedly cites Boyd's recipe for making a force ...