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9 - John Boyd, William Lind, and Maneuver Theory

from Part IV - The Insurrection of the Operational Artists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Antulio J. Echevarria II
Affiliation:
US Army War College, Pennsylvania
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Chapter 9 analyzes the theories of John Boyd and William Lind. It describes their lives as well as their "America," which was marked by the widespread sense of malaise that followed America’s failure in Vietnam. Both theoriests contributed to a resurgence of maneuver theory as well as to an empasis on the importance of an adversary’s cultural values and social cohesion. This chapter discusses their assumptions about war’s nature, which formed the modern model.

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War's Logic
Strategic Thought and the American Way of War
, pp. 169 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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