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Try Col. John Boyd's Clausewitzian triad elude Observe; Orient; Decide; Act Loop doctrine.[angel]
Is that by Dikkens the Dutch author?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCM2nEBE0RY
Henri Jomini.......while different it is easier for me to digest than Clausewitz
Ah, very familiar with COL. Boyd and his concepts of entering the enemy decision cycle. OODA loop theory has seemed to have fallen out of favor or was replaced by other theories.....I have not heard it referred to in professional military education since around 2010.
Josephine Tey's A Daughter of Time is one of my favourites. It's basically an examination of the death of the princes in the Tower and the role of Richard III. Good read.
Next book is The Group by Mary McCarthy. I will not be put off by the fact it is described as a precursor to Sex and the City - its 1930s New York and I want to love it.
A splash of Padraic Fallon's poetry goes well with Maria. :drama:
The Mary McCarthy Case; Norman Mailer, December 17, 1963 New York Review
revisiting herself and The Group
I read Mary McCarthy's "The Group" several years back and my impression was that you could see how it was groundbreaking for its day in its frank talk about sex, marriage, infidelity, suicide and others taboo subjects. Also, it was a good soap opera of a story. But my expectations had been set too high, so I was somewhat underwhelmed.
Mailer thought the novel little more than tripe vapid Vassar, not so kind but neither off target.