A very interesting book about John Boyd, who was a crack fighter pilot, and then later military strategist and reformer. Boyd flew as an instructor in the real life version of Top Gun, and beat everyone in 40 seconds or less. But later in his life he really studied military strategy, and this i...
During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent 67 months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, along with John McCain. Despite sustained torture, Day would not break. He became a hero to POWs everywhere...
His boss, Colonel Robert Titus, fire walled the review on the front side. On the second page he said Boyd’s E-M work “has been the single most important link making the acquisition of the F-15 Advanced Tactical Fighter possible.” He talked of Boyd’s “unbounded enthusiasm,” said Boyd was a “tactic...