John Boyd was arguably the greatest fighter pilot in American history. He won renown as the instructor who defeated -in less then forty seconds - every pilot who ever challenged him. But what made Boyd a man for the ages was what happened after he left the cockpit. He transformed almost single-handedly the way military aircraft in particular the f-15 and f-16 were designed. He then dedicated many lonely years to a radical theory of conflict that at the time was almost ignored but now informs military activity around the world and is acclaimed as the most influential thinking about conflict since Sun Tzu's The Art of War and to think that he was born and raised and schooled in our city is something else. Some say he was the greatest mind of the last centaury just blows my mind !He is the greatest military mind you never heard of. He was a man way way before his time just a very very brilliant man.

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