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It shouldn’t have taken a maverick Top Gun Actor to tell the world that combat situations — [[Finite and Infinite Games|finite games]] — are usually won by whoever has the initiative team, but there you have it.<ref>You can get inside an attacker’s OODA loop by intercepting a pass, I suppose).</ref> | It shouldn’t have taken a maverick Top Gun Actor to tell the world that combat situations — [[Finite and Infinite Games|finite games]] — are usually won by whoever has the initiative team, but there you have it.<ref>You can get inside an attacker’s OODA loop by intercepting a pass, I suppose).</ref> | ||
Famously Dominic Cummings is a big fan of the OODA loop theory, and used it to great advantage during the Brexit referendum campaign to keep the Remain permanently destabilised. Whether he knows about it or not, we rather think | Famously Dominic Cummings is a big fan of the OODA loop theory, and used it to great advantage during the Brexit referendum campaign to keep the Remain permanently destabilised. Whether he knows about it or not, we rather think Donald Trump is a natural OODA looper, too. | ||
Now getting inside your opponent’s punch is all well and good as long as it ''is'' your opponent, of course. Matthew Syed has pointed out<ref>“Looping the Loop”, ''Sideways'', [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sr4s BBC podcast].</ref> that dogfighting didn’t work so well as a strategy for peacetime governance for Mr Cummings since he was no longer engaged in the [[finite game]] of defeating outright an opponent in a winner-take-all showdown, but rather the [[infinite game]] of keeping as many people happy for as long and often as possible. | Now getting inside your opponent’s punch is all well and good as long as it ''is'' your opponent, of course. Matthew Syed has pointed out<ref>“Looping the Loop”, ''Sideways'', [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sr4s BBC podcast].</ref> that dogfighting didn’t work so well as a strategy for peacetime governance for Mr Cummings since he was no longer engaged in the [[finite game]] of defeating outright an opponent in a winner-take-all showdown, but rather the [[infinite game]] of keeping as many people happy for as long and often as possible. | ||