Robb Channeling Boyd

John Robb applies John Boyd thinking like he is channeling Boyd at this link I found this morning via Naked Capitalism.

While I was at Crystal City in my last significant navy assignment in 1984 someone said I should go over to the Pentagon and talk to some guy who had out of the mainstream ideas like I did.  However mine were in the logistic area and I don't know if he was referring to Boyd but it sounds like the guy.  Boyd's tactics are universal for application to and understanding any adversarial challenge.  The kind of challenge he could dominate in about 3 moves and have control of any situation.

Robb comes from the Boyd school.  There are others that carry on the Boyd thinking, fortunately, and it remains outside the mainstream but that is where thought leadership is often found.  Great ideas outlive the man.

Robb writes about equipment and warfare tools from battlefield weapons to software ibots and psych warfare.  He strays into other areas, including money and finance and politics which is another warfare battlefield where the same adversarial sand dominance situations apply. 

Money and finance are modern global warfare weapons and I am sure that Robb recognizes that but they are complex weapons that are not easily understood because a component of a financial weaponized system is not just overt secrecy in its use but complexity that serves just as well and also the some purpose objective of secrecy.  While Financial Warfare might be complex in its battlefield small arms weapons of choice macro analysis of obvious Financial strategies like Reserve Currency domination is apparent.

Maybe there is a "Boyd Thinker" somewhere that is applying the thinking primarily to Financial Warfare.  Whoever it is I would hope the person is not on the Darth Vader Dark Side.