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John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

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Widely recognized as one of the U.S. Air Force’s best jet pilots in the 1950s, John Boyd wrote his own combat flying manual, which would subsequently be adopted by air forces around the world. (Courtesy of the Boyd Family)

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank.

One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is: encouraging alliances and isolating enemies.

He was one of the few really critical thinkers who shifted the military strategic paradigms in a positive way in the twentieth century. Unfortunately, he never wrote a book.

Here is his power-point presentation that spells out his notions in detail.

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Class versus Identity Politics?

Parts of the “left” and “right” often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don’t get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that lethal and impoverishing social disintegration would result from an ideology — socialism– based on Marxist class conflict, which pits business people against working people (as if business people don’t work).

We need to abolish politics, not reform it because it’s toxic. That won’t eliminate classes, or useful social categories. We’ll always have people who own businesses, people who manage them, and people employed by them. But those are not and won’t be pure categories. Owners work. Managers work. And workers own — shares in corporations. (Check your retirement account.) Ultimately, in the free market everyone has the same boss: the consumers.

What we must strive for is, to coin a phrase, classes without borders. That is, mobility. To get it we need free markets, which would end: occupational licensure, home-bulding restrictions, business permits, the minimum wage, immigration control, and so much more.

An American Bombing

The most mainstream documentary about the truth behind the Oklahoma Bombing is now running on HBO.

An American Bombing is a great, if partial, vindication of the great work of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, J.D. Cash, Roger Charles, Jesse Trentadue, Richard Booth, Wendy Painting, William Jasper, Charles Key, Mark Hamm and many other great truth-tellers on this issue over the last 29 years.

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The Waco Tragedy

Last year, I sat down with author David Hardy and filmmaker Dan Gifford for a 13-hour in-depth review of the ATF, FBI and US Army’s slaughter of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas on this day in 1993. Also feat. James Tabor, Paul Fatta, David Thibodeau, Jim Bovard, Barbara Grant and Mike McNulty. Listen here.

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