{"id":45980,"date":"2015-02-12T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:47:02","slug":"podcast-101-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-the-art-of-war-with-robert-coram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/podcast-101-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-the-art-of-war-with-robert-coram\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #101: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War With Robert Coram"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Boyd<\/a> is one of the greatest military strategists that hardly anyone knows about. Unmatched in the cockpit during the Korean War, his mind was also without rival. He was not simply a warrior of combat, but a warrior-engineer and warrior-philosopher. Boyd wrote \u201cAerial Attack Study,\u201d which codified the best dogfighting tactics for the first time, helped design the legendary F-15, F-16, and A-10 aircraft, and developed the strategic tool known as the OODA Loop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Robert Coram, who wrote Boyd’s biography, argues that the OODA Loop made Boyd “the most influential military thinker since Sun Tzu.” In today’s podcast I talk to Mr. Coram about his book Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War<\/a>,<\/em> and about the life and career of this fascinating warrior-philosopher and what we can learn from him on how to be better men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Boyd is one of the greatest military strategists that hardly anyone knows about. Unmatched in the cockpit during the Korean War, his mind was also without rival. He was not simply a warrior of combat, but a warrior-engineer and warrior-philosopher. Boyd wrote \u201cAerial Attack Study,\u201d which codified the best dogfighting tactics for the first time, 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