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There is a good book on that subject by Stephen Bungay called "The Art of Action". He explains the concept of Auftragstaktik. Great book, although a bit hard to read.


There's also Franz Osinga's book Scince, strategy, and war, which covers John Boyd's work in detail.


I think OODA is fundamentally different to Auftragstaktik.

Auftragstaktik describes a clear purpose / intent. Like: capture the bridge (but: we don’t care how you do it since we can’t foresee specific circumstances)

OODA describes a process of decision making.

So, Auftragstaktik answers who decides what and why.

OODA answers how decisions are made and updated over time.

They’re complementary but different.


John Boyd, describer of the “OODA” loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop




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