Works
- Patterns of Conflict, briefing slides, final version December 1986, 1986
- The Essence of Winning and Losing, briefing slides, revised through January 1996, 1995
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A United States Air Force fighter pilot and strategist who set out his ideas in briefings, not books. The OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) describes competition as a contest of decision cycles, in which the side that orients and acts faster than its opponent can disrupt the opponent's picture of the situation; his last briefing gives the loop's fullest drawing.