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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
    I recommend Chet Richards if anybody wants to discuss OODA in a very theoretical and comprehensive way.

    I myself consider it as a tiny mosaic piece in military art, not worth much attention.
    I've always had the feeling that a significant part of its prominence stems from the desire of Americans to have had a great military art theoretician as well.

    That just reads pretty nasty no matter how I look at it. Fuchs you can't even give Americans the credit that they have ONE great military theoretician?
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    Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
    That just reads pretty nasty no matter how I look at it. Fuchs you can't even give Americans the credit that they have ONE great military theoretician?
    America has Robert Leonhard, who is about the finest military theorist alive today and also the least recognised. IIRC, Colin Gray is also a US Citizen.

    I profoundly disagree with Bill Lind, but he is prolific and vastly influential, though not really a military thinker or theorist, in a way I understand.

    In sharp contrast Boyd is likewise vastly influential, and I can never work out why.
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