- Boyd's theories of combat have informed virtually every U.S. military engagement of recent years, including the deployment of American armed forces in the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, among others, have acknowledged Boyd's co[...]
A larger-than-life fighter pilot and genius of aviation, engineering and military strategy, Boyd dared to challenge the intractable military bureaucracy and its outmoded practices. The single-minded determination developed in his youth carried him on to renown for his skill as a fighter pilot, for h[...]