{"60008":{"#nid":"60008","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Book Release on Col. John R. Boyd","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECol. John R. Boyd, BIE 1963, is known as one of this country\u0027s greatest fighter pilots and most brilliant military theorists. He has been described as the greatest secret hero of the American military, transforming the way military aircraft were designed with his theory on \u0022Energy- Maneuverability.\u0022 Boyd was often at odds with Air Force officials, but his revolutionary ideas are now acclaimed as some of the most influential thinking about conflict. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA new biography of Boyd will be available this fall. Written by Robert Coram of Atlanta, Boyd: \u003Cem\u003EThe Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War\u003C\/em\u003E, will be published by Little, Brown \u0026amp; Company. One area the book will explore is why Boyd is heavily respected by the U.S. Marines but virtually ignored by the Air Force. Some say it is because he made as many enemies as friends during his thirty-year career. When Boyd died of cancer in West Palm Beach in 1997, Charles C. Krulak, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, eulogized him as \u0022a towering intellect who made unsurpassed contributions to the American art of war.\u0022 He is credited with the development and design of both the F-15 \u0022Eagle\u0022 and, as leader of the so-called \u0022Fighter Mafia,\u0022 the F-16 \u0022Fighting Falcon.\u0022 In addition to the \u0022Energy Maneuverability Theory,\u0022 he developed the concept of the \u0022OODA Loop\u0022 (Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action) that is now standard in both the U.S. military and American business.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBoyd never published anything outside technical studies, but his ideas continue to have an impact on the military, academia, and business. For more information on Boyd and his theories, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.belisarius.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.belisarius.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}