Observe Orient Decide Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

Deceiving the Sky is a collectively produced book, resource, and study guide on  strategic thinking. Emerging from collective inquiry, it includes a wide variety of historical and contemporary texts on strategy. While the word strategy often evokes hierarchy, centralization, and a satellite’s-eye view of the world that conceives of humans as chess pieces, we felt it important to strengthen our own strategic reflexes as radicals. Against the statist conception of strategy, we believe it can be a lens, an orientation to the world that understands existence as a shifting array of forces, capacities, and intentions. Strategy can be molecular as much as it can be grand. This book is an attempt to build a new language that we can share together, to build our own collective capacity for strategic thinking, to become more powerful together.

Deceiving the Sky is designed as a tool for use, with original texts, introductory material, discussion notes and questions, and activities for engagement. The point is not to get lost in abstract theory, but to discover what is useful, and to discard the rest. This book can be used to organize a study group, to reference as a strategic playbook, or if nothing else, to roll up and use as a bludgeon.

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MEMES WITH FORCE – LESSONS FROM THE YELLOW VESTS

Could something like they Yellow Vests pop off in other countries? Does a Macron like president in the US usher in a similar phase in the US? To answer questions like this one may want to figure out how the Yellow Vests operated. This article is probably the best place to start. As always, read critically.

https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/memes-force-–-lessons-yellow-vests

Heralded as one of the best films of all time, revolutionaries and repressive government intelligence agencies agree that The Battle of Algiers is a critical recounting of the fight for liberation in Algeria and its repression that offers many near timeless lessons.

https://youtu.be/uHWZkiBuKGY

We’re going to try and do some fleshed out succinct reviews of different war theory and strategic text attempting to do one every other day. So watch this space if you’re interested.

more easily of accessed PDF for Deceiving the Sky:

Because there are not simply two faction at play in the conflict at hand we will also be diving into false critics of the ruling order including those forces that have been whipped up into a fury over gains won by liberation struggles or even the ghost of them in the updated language of establishment “progressive” politicians.

Likewise we will focus effort on analyzing the sections of the ruling order that attempt to co-opt struggles opposing it, assimilating such strings stripping them of their radical attributes making their apparatuses more pernicious.

a short tangentially related critique of the meme page orientation to the political from the recent past

www.maskmagazine.com/the-celibacy-issue/struggle/coming-memesurrection

An operational thinking study aid. Of course perfecting these things are impossible, what matters is getting better at them.

Know the terrain, both social and physical. Know your adversaries, and the actionable threats they pose and their likelihood of coming to fruition. Know yourself; know your biases, know your weaknesses, know your strengths.

Enhancing your situational awareness can be as easy as checking your mirrors while driving or keeping your head on a swivel in the street. Understanding what is around you and the potential therein is an important step in operational thinking. Radicals often spend a lot of time focusing on what ought to be instead of what is which can stunt their thinking in this regard which is why it’s important to flex these mental/physical muscles.

An exaggerated form of this can be found in this movie clip.

https://youtu.be/pHBj9GVQojU

ai ferri corti con l’esistente, i suoi difensori e i suoi falsi critici

This insurrectionary piece of prose is littered with bits of operational wisdom. A good place to start if your finding other texts to dry or technical. You may find the spirit of it all here. The secret is to really begin.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-at-daggers-drawn-with-the-existent-its-defenders-and-its-false-critics

“The force of an insurrection is social, not military.”

This PDF contains the bulk of the works of one of the most important war theorists in living memory, John Boyd.

Not only did he revolutionize air combat, invent tools like the OODA loop, and bring together ancient war wisdom and contemporary operational thinking, but his focus on fighting without conventional command structures, the social base of guerrilla war, and the ways a smaller force can defeat a larger more mighty one make his writing full of useful ideas for those coming up against the formal enforcers of the ruling order.

He pulls wisdom from past and present that provide insight that is useful even beyond the battlespace and applicable to innumerable scenarios.

Much of Boyd’s work is also broken down somewhat more succinctly in this chapter the Deceiving the Sky.

Deceiving the Sky: Collective Experiments in Strategic Thinking

We should perhaps further explain Boyd’s most memorable creation: the OODA loop.

The OODA loop is a making visible of the process of Observing to Orienting to Deciding to Acting. A main point of highlighting this is to explain how shortening this loop allows groups or individuals allows them to act faster. Acting faster in turn allows one to out maneuver your opponent even if your opponent is conventionally stronger.

(it should be noted that “genetic heritage” in this context refers to our individual genetics as short hand for our inherited physical-mental conditions that influence our orientation and species wide genetics such as cognitive biases and not racial or eugenic pseudo-science)