John Boyd's Destruction and Creation at 50: The Paper Behind the Real OODA Loop

Send us Fan Mail Fifty years ago today, on 3 September 1976, John Boyd published Destruction and Creation. Almost nobody who talks about the OODA loop has read it. Mark "Moose" McGrath and Brian "Ponch" Rivera the paper's fiftieth anniversary, with multiple versions on screen. Mark argues the paper is the kernel that everything Boyd wrote for the next twenty years is built on. He walks the fusion at its center: the second law of thermodynamics, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and ...