Quote Originally Posted by snapperhead View Post
it is a model, an inference to best explanation, that purports to describe an individual and opponent's process of information gathering and thinking. From that model you can then draw your own normative conclusions, which Boyd and others have done.
I agree. This is correct, but this is not how 99% of people use and attempt to apply it - which is exactly my point.

Bill Lind's Manoeuvre Warfare Handbook explicitly states OODA as being part of MW Doctrine. - in that you have to understand it to be a practitioner.

IIRC, Naveh also makes a big deal of the OODA loop, in that he also believes it useful in the same way Lind does. As I said elsewhere I am away from my Library, so I can't check.