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Complex Military Environment

A checklist mentality in a maneuver warfare environment

By 2ndLt Jacob W Foster There is dissonance between Marine Corps theory of maneuver warfare versus the linearity of our institution’s centralized systems approach to training. The Marine Corps identifies maneuver warfare as the keystone philosophy for defeating our enemies. However, a top-down systems approach to training and education curbs the flexibility of critical thought

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The “Grand Ideal”

John Boyd and America’s strategic vision

By Maj Ian T Brown Col John Boyd, USAF(Ret), is best known for his observation-orientation-decision-action (or “OODA”) loop. But as I mentioned in a previous article (“Opening the Loop,” MCG, June 2015, 52), there is more to Boyd’s theories on conflict than is generally appreciated. Today, as our Nation struggles to define strategies for countering

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