The author concludes that McCain is “inside Obama’s OODA loop” (oops!) (although as commentators note, McCain was an attack plane pilot, not fighter, and I’ll add that Boyd’s OODA Loop almost certainly would not have been taught to McCain given the dates (to my memory). But it’s well known now, and the general idea is plenty old.) “Evidently Boyd is beating Alinsky. Or to put it another way. The … pilot is beating the community organizer.”

And a commentator reminded me of a relatively concise (!) essay by Bill Whittle, Forty Second Boyd and the Big Picture, which is a pretty good exposition, it and Wikipedia will tell you if you want to get Boyd’s books, etc.

All this has to with the ugly fact that our kill ratio vs. North Vietnamese pilots, sometimes flying an obsolescent plane by choice, were achieving a 1-1 kill ratio vs. our pilots, which was quite a reversal compared to the Korean War, and there where the plane they flew arguably had a edge over the Saber (although we didn’t know that at the time).