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[[File:Fighter planes.png|450px|thumb|center|John Boyd getting inside some Russki’s OSDA Loop yesterday. (Ok this is badly photoshopped drivel)]] | [[File:Fighter planes.png|450px|thumb|center|John Boyd getting inside some Russki’s OSDA Loop yesterday. (Ok this is badly photoshopped drivel)]] | ||
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AIR CONTROLLER MACIAS: Maybe we ought to turn on the search-lights now? <br> | ''AIR CONTROLLER MACIAS'': Maybe we ought to turn on the search-lights now? <br> | ||
REX KRAMER: No. That’s just what they’ll be expecting us to do. | ''REX KRAMER'': '''No'''. That’s just what they’ll be ''expecting'' us to do. | ||
:—''Airplane!'' (1980)<ref>Oh, go on: <br><youtube width="200" height="120" >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0X0ZYbnHxA</youtube></ref>}}In a situation of direct, bilateral conflict — dogfighting, Chess, test cricket, [[Brexit|in/out referendums on membership of the European Union]], an OODA loop is a combatant’s [[Decision-making|decision]] cycle: “observe, orient, decide, act”: the idea being you need to take in what is happening (''observe''), synthesise a theory of what the oppo is up to (''orient''),<ref>“Orient” doesn’t seem as good a word to me as “synthesise”, especially as that would have made the acronym “OSDA”, which all [[ninja]]s will find pleasing.</ref> figure out what to do (''decide'') and then do it (''act'') ''before'' the other side gets through its own process of doing exactly that, and changes tack, spoiling your clever plan. | :—''Airplane!'' (1980)<ref>Oh, go on: <br><youtube width="200" height="120" >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0X0ZYbnHxA</youtube></ref>}}In a situation of direct, bilateral conflict — dogfighting, Chess, test cricket, [[Brexit|in/out referendums on membership of the European Union]], an OODA loop is a combatant’s [[Decision-making|decision]] cycle: “observe, orient, decide, act”: the idea being you need to take in what is happening (''observe''), synthesise a theory of what the oppo is up to (''orient''),<ref>“Orient” doesn’t seem as good a word to me as “synthesise”, especially as that would have made the acronym “OSDA”, which all [[ninja]]s will find pleasing.</ref> figure out what to do (''decide'') and then do it (''act'') ''before'' the other side gets through its own process of doing exactly that, and changes tack, spoiling your clever plan. | ||