The OODA Loop as "Magic" Triangle
While the "Mobility - Security - Firepower"
triangle represents the basics, or the "trivium" of warfare, the high "Art of
War" (Sun Tsu) would lack the essential without the
information and intelligence factor. This is introduced with the
OODA Loop (Stein 1998): Observation - Orientation - Decision - Action. It is the
guiding rule of today's "Information War" scenarios.
For optimal operation, both figures can be
combined. This can be visualized when we merge them into a Pyramid. Viewed under
one aspect, we see the counterbalancing "mobility - security - firepower"
tradeoffs, and viewed from the other aspect, we have the mutually reinforcing
poles of the OODA loop.
