Technical Issues to Complex Problems

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Why, because it is easier, quicker and a solution for the very short run but often ineffective as a whole to solve problems especially in regard to physical violence regardless if social or asocial. 

I seen as one reason why karate and martial arts often don’t reach the skies regarding self-defense is because we in the communities were exposed to and tend to adhere to the old way of providing technical answers to resolve complex problems, i.e., the technique based answers as would be applied toward the complex problems found in self-defense. 

I see the more dynamic way to achieve appropriate responses to such complex self-defense issues and that tends to span a wider wing span that holds true to maneuverability, etc., than the simplicity of technique-to-technique based models. 

Bibliography (Click the link)

Hey, don’t assume this stuff is written in concrete because this is simply me trying to gain perspective and understanding to the Boyd OODA loop, patterns of conflict, so all of the following is my learning curve. Take it for what it is, an attempt at understanding through analysis and synthesis.

Boyd Bibliography:

Angerman, William S. “Coming Full Circle with Boyd’s OODA Loop Ideas: An Analysis of Innovation Diffusion and Evolution.” USAF Institute of Technology. Ohio. 2004.

Boyd, John R. USAF. “A Discourse on Winning and Losing.  

Boyd, John R. USAF. “New Conception for Air to Air Combat.”

Boyd, John R. USAF. “Patterns of Conflict.” www-d-n-i,net. 2007

Coram, Robert. “Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War.” Back Bay Books. New York. 2004. 

Hammond, Grant T. “On the Making of History: John Boyd and American Security.” USAF Academy. 2012  

Hammond, Grant. “The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security.” Smithsonian Books, New York. 2004.

Osinga, Frans. “Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd.” Eburon Academic Publishers. Amsterdam. 1963.