A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review?(Book Review)

Military Review | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

A SWIFT, ELUSIVE SWORD: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd did a National Defense Review? Chester W. Richards, Center for Defense Information, Washington, DC, 2001, 84 pages, price unavailable.

Two cheers for Chester W. Richards. His slim book provides a welcome reminder that simply providing more high-technology hardware to the U.S. military will not solve all of our security problems.

Richards is a disciple of the late military thinker Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Boyd is probably best known for his notion of besting an adversary by "getting inside his OODA ...

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