The idea behind this series was to show that from destruction comes creation. Army comand and general staff college, 1987 decision making 12 pages. After john boyd revolutionized aerial combat and aeronautical engineering with his energymanuverability theory he embarked on a study of the nature of creativity. Ideas from new conception for airtoair combat boyd, 1976b 56 table 6. Boyds essay on destruction and creation is about knowledge and the. According to grant hammond author of the book, the mind of war john boyd and american security, it is the quest by boyd to find scientific, mathematical and logical verification for principles boyd knew instinctively were true. Ideas from destruction and creation boyd, 1976a 56 table 5. This compendium lists colonel john boyd s briefings on the nature of conflict, strategy, and grand strategy. Destruction isnt this messy simply because we are unkind or evil. In the face of impermanence we want to leave something behind that is permanent. It is included as an appendix in robert corams boyd biography, which is available in digital format, but is poorly formatted. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every socalled god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of god, proclaiming himself to be god.
Posted by matt in building snowmobiles, publications 2 comments this paper rocks, and as you can see, is the basis for a lot of the ideas i talk about here on fj. One of these, destruction and creation, gives a process for creativity. In it he integrates g dels incompleteness theorem, heisenbergs uncertainty principle, and the second law of thermodynamics to provide a context and rationale for the development of the ooda loop. As pablo picasso said, every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Destruction and creation is an essay about where new ideas come from. July 1, 2007 of all the things boyd wrote or said, we probably get the most requests for his to be or to do. Rubbish theory the creation and destruction of valuebymichael thompson. The essence of winning and losing in 1995, boyd distilled the essence of his ooda loop thinking into a fiveslide presentation which happily was preserved by chester richards. What is meant by destruction is a form of creation. Creation of the world in the beginning, the world was without form and empty.
I havent quite finished it, but i love the idea and the given applications for it. Texas tech researchers build upon devastation from deadly lubbock tornado it seemed like a beautiful spring day on the south plains of texas. Laws of creation and destruction of all systems and levels of allthatis can only be adequately assessed by employing transcendental numbers. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators and destruction after all is a form of creation. Defense and the national interest john boyd compendium. Boyd states that paradoxically high entropy can be the trigger of the destruction of an existing system to create a new system with low entropy. Abstract to comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. God saw that the light was good and made a separation between the. To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. In it he integrates g dels incompleteness theorem, heisenbergs uncertainty principle, and the second law of thermodynamics to provide a context. Abstract 116 kb conceptual spiral 161 kb abstract of the discourse and conceptual spiral 4kb pdf destruction and creation.
John boyd s model for thinking on and off the battlefield. Science characteristically pursues general izations thought to approximate eternal truths. Warm and clear, no one expected or forecasted the lifechanging atmospheric events that quietly brewed in the skies that may 11,1970. Produced by andreas magnusson, it was released on march 12, 20 by solid state records. Boyds ooda loop its not what you think chet richards j. Matt is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management and cybersecurity issues. Destruction is fundamentally messy, and keeping it gentle takes a lot of work. These were exhibited at kknk 2014 at a gallery called art karoo. Our rich vocabulary around destruction is an indication of this.
Goddecided tocreate the sky and the earth and created the world in this order. Destruction and creation by john boyd model report. As the paint falls there is a constant point of creation, but at the. It is an acronym that explains the four steps of decisions making. Boyd in abstract to discourse on winning and losing. In destruction and creation 1976 boyd describes the continuing cycle of conceptualization and observation. The album attracted both commercial successes and positive criticism. Destructive creation was coined as a play on joseph schumpeters famous term creative destruction, which suggests that innovation. The diningroom was stripped of parquet, the skirting was up, the door had been taken off its hinge, and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Theres no question that boyd is an influential and important figure, but coram has written this in his usual stylefind a military man who can be painted as an underappreciated, persecuted genius punished for his straightshooting and truth telling to the careerist brass, write in breathless hyperbole boyd is the greatest strategist since sun tzu and use. Introduction to john boyd s thought by michele pileri may 2008 what follows was to be a shortened version of a work written to be published by the rivista. This forms the philosophical foundation for his proposition that uncertainty pervades everything.
Understanding war is a working title designed to evoke the grand theory implicit in titles such as sun tzus art of war and clausewitzs on war. Get an answer for how does the destructors show that destruction is a form of creation. The fighter pilot who changed the art of war by robert. Destruction and creation in a portrait of the artist as a young man elliott b. John boyd, conceptual spiral, and the meaning of life. This is a mirror of the defense and the national interest website compendium of colonel john boyd s pivotal works. His theories have been highly influential in the military, sports, business, and litigation fields boyd.
Accordingly, the dialectic cycle of destruction and creation begins to repeat itself once again. In it boyd states that uncertainty is a fundamental and. A theory of war as conflict without rules semantic scholar. Oct 23, 2017 but boyds gifts to the universe were not limited to the military, and one of his last major labors before he died was a paper and presentation he called analysis and synthesis or, alternatively, destruction and creation. University of british columbia what is the relation of imagination to experience, of body, emo tions and soul to inspiration. The author conducts a flight test in an f35b near naval air station patuxent river, maryland. If you develop a deep understanding of th is work, youll have the essence of boyd. Theoretical understandings of war have been dominated by the thought of clausewitz for a number of decades.
Boyd applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the operational level during military campaigns. He spent the first 12 of those retirement years working on his magnum opus, a set of briefings collectively entitled a discourse of winning and losing. Abstract of the discourse and conceptual spiral 4kb pdf destruction and creation html patterns of conflict. Id like to credit him and his ooda loop theory as the origins of the uddhava in the mirrowen trilogy. Purpose the papers aim is to develop a theoretical framework of value cocreation and value codestruction of guesthost social practices facilitated through airbnb in the sharing economy. See more ideas about destruction, picasso portraits and decay art. Dec 19, 2007 j oyce asks the following question september 2007 i am wondering why, with all the destruction of jerusalem, and no stone left on top of another in the temple why would john write the book of revelation and never even mention these events.
What is the big bang, other than creation born out of chaos and destruction. Creating something new usually requires us to let go of something old. Building snowmobiles and a finetuned situational awareness. Even holy books are full of allegorical stories of which the most important underlying themes are often selfsacrifice, sacrifice, destruction and creation. In other words, as suggested by godels proof of incompleteness, we imply that the process of structure, unstructure, restructure, unstructure, restructure is repeated endlessly in moving to higher and broader levels of elaboration. Army mission command, significantly influenced by german concepts of mission orders, auftragstaktik, schwerpunkt, and the truppenfuehrung the wehrmachts wwii field manual, emphasizes subordinate initiative within the framework of commanders intent. The purpose of this paper is to sketch out how we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to both shape and be shaped by a changing environment. Creation by destruction is an ongoing exploration of all things glitch. Revelation makes visible the metaphorical message that flows from this discourse. John boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of american military history. Destruction and creation was written by boyd in 1976. Rubbish theory the creation and destruction of value. In this essay i propose to probe the source of creativity in a portrait, discussing joyces presentation of.
Aug 12, 2014 this conflict causes us to try to exert some sort of effect on the world in order prove that we exist, that we are powerful, that our lives have meaning. The creation and destruction of value researchgate. Inspired by the works of alberto seveso, i created my own series of paint in water sculptures. Here you can see how starting from the bottom the natural world has been peeled back, the plants are moved to the sides, to allow for the presc read more. His theories have been highly influential in the military, sports, business, and litigation fields boyd inspired the lightweight fighter program lwf that produced the successful general dynamics f16 fighting falcon and mcdonnell douglas fa. This is applicable to every aspect of human life and every part of our. Boyd left us with little written work, but with invaluable. However, mathematics has virtually no idea as to how to use such numbers in its practical calculations.
Boyd 3 september 1976 abstract to comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. Pdf value cocreation and codestruction in the airbnb. It was during this time that boyd developed his most significant breakthrough on modern warfare theory, the observeorientdecideact ooda loop, which will be described in detail over the next several pages. Destruction and creation lays out in abstract but graphic fashion the ways by which we evolve mental concepts to comprehend and cope with our environment. The essay destruction and creation was written in 1976. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction duane. Boyd september 3, 1976 to comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. This is for sharing obscure pdfs that are uncommonly good reads. The ooda loop was a tool developed by military strategist john boyd to explain how individuals and organizations can win in uncertain and chaotic environments.
This article will give you the understanding you need to turn ambiguity into advantage and. It is a window to boyds mind, according to robert coram, one of the two biographers4. It doesnt actually have to be a pdf, but you get the idea. At bottom there are only two routes available to get it done. Patterns of conflict 2,900 kb pdf, ppt, ppt pdf strategic game of. Why doesnt john mention the destruction of the temple in. The first is colonel retired john boyd and his presentation organic design for command and control. Apr 14, 2014 reading that book led me to pursue some of john boyds original writings, including his essay destruction and creation which was written in 1976. Going back to our idea chain, it follows that creativity is related to induction, synthesis, and integration since we proceeded from. John boyd was a fighter pilot and senior officer in the united states air force who had a significant influence on aerial combat, military strategy, and strategic thinking. The greek and macedonian art of war, 1957 alger, john i.
Through this process there is a continuous cycle of destruction and creation, regulated by entropy. This is the corpus of boyd s work and it is highly idiosyncratic and not for the faint hearted. Why and how the world economic order will collapse in 2011 georgi stankov 2. Among his most prominent contributions were energymaneauverability theory, the ooda loop and his brief entitled destruction and creation. The f35 executes an updated version of john boyd s ooda loop that takes into account todays technology, weapons, and tactics. Dec 24, 2017 josef schumpeter coined the term creative destruction to help us understand that growth requires leaving behind the old and embracing the new. Find and follow posts tagged destruction is a form of creation on tumblr. His theory of conflict is clausewitzian in the sense that it is. The creation and destruction of value barry schwartz swarthmore college ill illll ill i ii i i abstract. In this sense, the discussion also literally shows why we cannot avoid this kind of activity if we intend to survive on our own terms. As posted on chets website, it appears to be authentic boyd, even to the colonels scrawled date and signature in the lower righthand corner of the first slide.
John boyd, conceptual spiral, and the meaning of life where was john boyd. Colonel boyd wrote a series of essays and presentations that range from the fascinating patterns of conflict to the virtually impenetrable rumination on. This is john boyds 1976 inquiry into the nature of creativity. In other words we must be willing to let go of those things we hold dear to embrace the future. His thought is valid in many respects, but for various reasons it is open to misinterpretation and misunderstanding. Transitions are painful because they destroy the status quo, pushing us beyond our comfort zones.
The ooda loop is the cycle observeorientdecideact, developed by military strategist and united states air force colonel john boyd. Destructioncreation by chris slabber art people gallery. It is freely available as a pdf, which is useful for printing but not for reading or manipulating. The destructors quotes from litcharts the creators of. When i was writing my dissertation on how to apply john boyd s thinking to the problem of counterinsurgency, a most valuable resource was the defense in the national interest website maintained by his friend and acolyte, chester richards.
History and theory of combat in 1987, and peter paret published understanding war in 1993, so other titles are under consideration. From my social networking ideas, to shared reality, to leadership, to being a better contractor and person, to. A discourse on winning and losing abstract 4 kb pdf destruction and creation. John richard boyd january 23, 1927 march 9, 1997 was a united states air force fighter pilot and pentagon consultant of the late 20th century. Boyd s goal was to understand why he, a curious fighter pilot, was the first to discover em theory. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. Introduction to the strategic theories of john boyd.
Reading that book led me to pursue some of john boyd s original writings, including his essay destruction and creation which was written in 1976. John boyd and john warden air powers quest for strategic paralysis david s. John boyd, military strategist responsible for the design of the f16, a10 and strategies for the two gulf wars, documented several useful concepts. Alas, weeks before i submitted the paper, chet decided to abandon the website, and he invited anyone who cared to. If you have read any of the biographies of john boyd, you may remember this briefing as the big crunch.
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