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The OODA Loop as "Magic" Triangle





While the "Mobility - Security - Firepower" triangle represents the basics, or the "trivium" of warfare, the high "Art of War" (Sun Tsu) would lack the essential without the information and intelligence factor . This is introduced with the OODA Loop (Stein 1998): Observation - Orientation - Decision - Action. It is the guiding rule of today's "Information War" scenarios.

For optimal operation, both figures can be combined. This can be visualized when we merge them into a Pyramid. Viewed under one aspect, we see the counterbalancing "mobility - security - firepower" tradeoffs, and viewed from the other aspect, we have the mutually reinforcing poles of the OODA loop.

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