John Boyd makes an appearance in Chapter One of Thomas Barnett’s GREAT POWERS.
15. To remain “fit” . . . grand strategy needs to attract more allies than it repulses.
On Boyd’s life and influence, read Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (New York: Little, Brown, 2002); on this specific point, see Chet Richards, “Grand Strategy,” found online at www.d-n-i.net/fcs/boyd_grand_strategy.htm, and Mark Safranski, editor, The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War (Ann Arbor, MI: Nimble Books, 2008), which contains a foreword by yours truly on Boyd’s impact upon the field.
via Endnotes for Great Powers, Chapter One (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog).
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