Recounts Woodes Rogers wildly audacious 1708-1711 circumnavigation around the world in search of Spanish ships to seize as booty and treasure.
#291004 in Books Smithsonian Books 2004-08 2004-08-17Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.90 x .50 x 6.00l; .89 #File Name: 158834178X248 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An excellent add to any strategic collectionBy TinyThe Mind of War offers a different spot in the dissecting John Boyd's career and theories than the more biographical option offered by Robert Coram. Hammond; who knew and worked with Boyd during his time at War College; focuses on how Boyd thought and how his thoughts were expressed with only brief touches on lifetime events. This book helps one understand one of the basics of modern strategy; showing how Boyd achieved his ideas; and where the emphasis should be. An excellent add to any strategic collection.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Boyd's tool: creative synthesis + voracious curiosityBy Roberto Rigolin Ferreira LopesHere you can taste a bit of Boyd’s intellectual intensity together with his numerous accomplishments in all US military echelons. This man managed to change how to fight and design fighters but also described the intellectual tools he used to do his contributions. This is priceless and is mainly related to his ability to do creative synthesis + voracious curiosity. He end up realizing that schools teach us how to do analysis leaving synthesis behind; but synthesis is the key skill to adapt therefore to thrive in life.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Do you want to be or to do?By Jim DulinThis is an excellent book about a man who; in his own words; chose "to do" and not "to be." What he did was defeat all comers in forty seconds in aerial combat; teach his techniques to others; evaluate how he did it to create the energy maneuvering evaluation of all fighter aircraft; develop the OODA loop; and change how most militaries look at the art of war.What did the US Air Force allow this brilliant and obnoxious man of impeccable integrity to be? He was passed over twice to make full colonel. He came back to the Pentagon as a civilian paid one day per pay period. Our Marines loved him and history will treat this nobel hero kinder than the h u t a Air Force which wanted to kill the best fighter in the world because he developed it cheaply.
