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  • Boyd and Beyond Boston 2013: Balancing Pursuasion and Force in The Moral, Mental and Physical Dimensions of Conflict
  • Don Vandergriff, Discusses: Misinterpretation and Confusion: What is Mission Command?
  • Huddling-Up To Acheive Successful Law Enforcement Outcomes
  • Building Cohesive Law Enforcement Agencies That Can Decide In Crisis Situations
  • Mistakes ultimately ended ex-LA cop’s rampage
  • Red Teaming The Workplace Violence Shooter and The “MR. Uncomfortable Factor”
  • Top 30 Criminal Justice Blogs of 2012 : LESC is Number 5!
  • Showing Up Is Overrated. Necessary But Not Nearly Sufficient. Can Taking An “Interest” In What You Do Enhance Performance?
  • Handling Dynamic Encounters…Go Get Him, Or Set Him Up To Get Him…With An Adaptable Response
  • Shift Debriefings: How Can We Be More Deliberate, More Disciplined, and More Thorough in our Approach to Learning?
  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 6: Provoke Your Adversary’s Reaction
  • Does Mass Violence Unfold Randomly and Chaotic or is There Hidden Order We Can Leverage in Our Prevention Efforts?
  • Police One Column: 13 questions to answer in 2013: What has 2012 taught you about officer safety and effectiveness?
  • Take Small Steps, Towards, Lifelong Learning In 2013
  • Positive Adaptive Leadership…Tools and Tips and Critical Questions To Explore in 2013 Inspired by Many Of Those I Follow
  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 5: Sheath Your Sword
  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 4: Score A Small Victory Along The Way
  • In Mastering Tactics Shouldn’t We Be Blending Policy and Procedures with People and Ideas?
  • Ready, Aim, Ready?
  • IMPLEMENTATION (OODA LOOP OR BOYD’S CYCLE) by Sid Heal
  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 3: Engage Your Adversary From Many Directions
  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 2: Lure The Tiger Out Of The Mountain
  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 1: Catch Your Adversary Sleeping
  • The Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck…Simple, Yet, Great Tool for Developing Strategic and Tactical Mindset
  • “Certain men…come to be accepted guardians and transmitters, instructors, of established doctrines…
  • On Vision
  • Book Review: The Rite of Return: Coming Back From Duty Induced PTSD
  • Restoring the Wounded Spirit
  • Deciding Under Pressure…and Fast: You Need to Understand the Concept of “Coup d’oeil”
  • How Do Adaptive Leaders Think?
  • Capt Evan Bradley on Boyd, Adaptability and Understanding the Bigger Picture in Conflict
  • Captain Lindsay Rodman On Boyd and Taking Ownership of What You Do!
  • William McNulty-Team Rubicon: Boyd, Applied to Disaster Response
  • Heroes Behind the Badge
  • Chet Richards On Boyd…Is Your Orientation, Matched to Reality?
  • Col GI Wilson on Boyd, Bureaucracy, Insight, Imagination, Intent and Implementation
  • What hath Boyd wrought? With Remarks
  • John Boyd, Conceptual Spiral, and the meaning of life
  • Boyd and Beyond 2012, Quantico, VA — a quickie recap by Scott Shipman
  • Finished Gung Ho! The Corps Most Progressive Tradition
  • Dangerous Minds – The Relationship between Beliefs, Behaviors, and Tactics
  • Guest Post: Super Cops – Can we create them??? “Yes you can!”
  • “The importance of a proper command system…
  • “Leaders gain confidence and become more tactically and technically proficient…
  • Help staff practice thinking on their feet to prepare for emergencies
  • More On, Gung Ho! Out of Seeming Defeat May Have Sprung Great Potential
  • Latest P1 Column: The anatomy of victory (part two): Victory at minimal cost
  • Chapter 1 Review of “Gung Ho! The Corps’ Most Progressive Tradition
  • Latest P1 Column: The anatomy of victory (part one): What does it take to win?
  • Proper Police Action Requires…What?
  • P1 Column: Patterns of behavior, officer safety, and ‘the rule of opposites’
  • Be agile and win:
  • Why Boyd is Agile
  • Destruction & Creation: Are You Locked on One Way of Thinking or Are You Adaptable, Approaching Tactical Dilemmas?
  • Book Review: Deadly Force: Firearms and American Law Enforcement, from the Wild West to the Streets of Today
  • The power of a handshake!
  • Winning at Low Cost: No better friend, no better role model, no better diplomat and, no worse enemy
  • “The most efficient way to get the behavior you’re looking for is to find positive deviants and…
  • Book Review: Police Instructor: Deliver Dynamic Presentations, Create Engaging Slides & Increase Active Learning
  • “Organizations by their very nature involves a series of balances…
  • “Of every 100 men you send to fight, 10 shouldn’t even be there. Eighty are…
  • Column at Police One: Mental toughness and the power to adapt
  • Mental Attitude Can Be Negative or Positive
  • The Anatomy of Victory: What Does It Take To “Win”at Low Cost?
  • “They can’t understand why their parent organizations didn’t better prepare them…
  • Counter-Ambush Tactics: Thinking Tactically and Doing What You Know How To Do On The Street
  • Train To Make a Difference! A Decrease in Officer Fatalities in 1st Quarter of 2012
  • “They prefer to achieve their results by…
  • Part 2: Train the brain: Using decision making critiques to leverage lessons learned: Published at Police One
  • “Wild animals are taken by scouting, by nets, by lying in wait, by stalking…
  • “If one has never personally experience war…
  • Chet Richards On: Boyd’s Really Real OODA Loop
  • Destruction and Creation
  • A Video Biography of COL John Boyd
  • Book Review: Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
  • Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman
  • Train the brain: Using tactical decision games in training Published at POLICE ONE
  • OODA Loops: The Explorer Mentality…And Recognizing Patterns of Behavior
  • OODA Loop & Human Reaction Time
  • The Leaders Ultimate Reward: ‘I saw Someone Grow today, and I Helped’
  • Where Have All the Warriors Gone? A Spot On Article, Every Cop Should Read
  • Should Street Cops, Break Routines…and Think?
  • Broken Windows…A Powerful Strategy, When Applied Robustly
  • Lessons from SWAT the Street Cop Can Use on The Three Speeds of Operations
  • Law enforcement interaction with the dangerously mentally ill
  • Tip: Have an ‘exit’ strategy on vehicle stops
  • What Those We Train Say About Us
  • Mastering Tactics with Decision Making Exercises and Critiques
  • The OODA loop, reaction time, and decision making
  • Leaders share the faith…and promote heretics
  • COL John Boyd: Building Snowmobiles and a Fine-tuned Situational Awareness
  • Mindset and Winning is About Much More than Words, Isn’t It?
  • Interacting Tactfully and Tactically: Is This a Strategy, Law Enforcement Can Use?
  • Emotion verses Strategy: Which Helps You Gain the Position of Advantage?
  • “It Never Happens Here” So WHY Do We Train?
  • Think ‘FAST’: A mnemonic to help keep you safe, by John Demand
  • PoliceOne.Com Published: Are you prepared to adapt and win on the street?
  • Understanding and Developing Adaptive Leadership During Pre-commissioning
  • Book Review: If I Knew Then 2: Warrior Reflections
  • A VISION AND THE MISSION FOR: THE FUTURE LAW ENFORCEMENT LEARNING ORGANIZATION
  • Police Leaders as Educators and Trainers…Inspiring Cops to More Effective and Safe Policing
  • You’ve Got To Have an Ace in the Hole. Are You Prepared to Adapt and Win on the Street?
  • What has 2011 Taught You About Officer Safety and Effectiveness?
  • Police One, column ‘Staying Oriented’ article #1: ‘Red Teaming’ the cop killer
  • Mental Toughness and The Competitive Nature of Conflict
  • Police Militarization, Professionalism, and the Balance of Persuasion and Force
  • Mental Toughness and…The Power to Adapt
  • Mental Toughness: Optimistic Enthusiasm as a Form of Realism
  • Preparing for Crisis with Tactical Decision Games, After Action Reviews and Critical Question Mapping
  • Great Recap of Boyd and Beyond 2011 By Scott Shipman
  • Global Warrior Averting WWIII, John Poole’s Latest Strategic and Tactical Insights to Protecting the Homeland
  • Brain plasticity: A whole new idea for cops
  • Boyd & Beyond is on for 14 & 15 October at Quantico.
  • “SWARMING TACTICS” Published in the California Association of Tactical Officers official publication CATO NEWS
  • Documentary: Massacre at Virginia Tech
  • Book Review: TEMPO Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative Driven Decision Making by Venkatesh Rao
  • Fine Art, Fine Tuning Situation Awareness and Training Cops to See
  • 15 Meters/11Seconds By C Flaherty and AR Green
  • Too Focused? You Might Miss Something Important
  • Dangerous Body Language: Digging Beyond What You See!
  • Swarming & The Future of Conflict by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt
  • Swarming Tactics by Sid Heal
  • More On Swarming Tactics…An Option For Law Enforcement
  • Dangerous Body Language: Detecting Deception and Danger
  • Cops Line of Duty Deaths Rising in 2011 “APPLYING”Lessons Learned
  • Cops, Security, Citizens Need to Be Aware: Does the Climate & Environment Shift in the Wake of bin Laden’s Death?
  • Progress, Interrupt and Neutralize (P.I.N.) Swarming Techniques For The Tactician
  • Should We Be Thinking Like the Bad Guys?
  • Meet Officers Lewis and Clark-Exploring Situational Awareness
  • Dangerous Body Language,The Boyd Cycle and Winning on the Street
  • Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! The Nose, Mouth and Lips
  • The 10% of Mindset
  • The 3 P’s in Extreme Close Quarters Training: Pre-Assault Indicators, Precognitive Programming and Proximity
  • Tactical IQ: Using “SURPRISE” to Set the Tempo of Confrontation.
  • Tactical IQ: “FRICTION” Why is the Simplest Thing, So Difficult?
  • Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! Darting Eyes
  • Operation Bold Strike: Follow Me Training Support Package
  • Follow Me!!! Creating and Nurturing Tactical Decision Makers With Combat Tested Methodologies
  • Training the Whole Circle: Blending Boyd’s Cycle and Cooper’s Color Codes
  • Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! “Gaze Avoidance”
  • From OODA to AAADA ― A cycle for surviving violent police encounters
  • Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! The Thousand Yard Stare
  • Baltimore Police Sergeants Training Using Adaptive Leadership Methodology with Don Vandergriff’s AAR
  • Achieving Outcomes on the Street with Integrity, Building Loyalty and Mutual Trust
  • Intersecting Ideas from Cross Disciplines…and Taking Boyd’s Theories Beyond
  • Tactical IQ: Developing “Fingertip Feel” Shaping and Reshaping Dynamic Encounters and Gaining the Advantage
  • Reducing Law Enforcement Misfortunes…What About the Street Officer?
  • Can technology suck your brain dry?
  • Organizational Culture: Is Yours Congruent with What You Do?
  • Fighting Complacency Reminder: Nothing We Do is Routine, NOTHING!!!
  • Street Level Red Teaming: The Cop Killer
  • Street Level Red Teaming: Assessing The Situation From the Adversarial Point of View
  • Take A.I.M. and Prepare To Win Dynamic Encounters
  • Don’t Charge Police for Mistakes
  • What is a Threat?
  • Benefits of Conditioning Our Decision Making…The Boyd Cycle
  • Superior Situational Awareness and Decision Making…Attributes And Skills of Full Spectrum Officers
  • Earning “The Right to Lead” With Character and Courage
  • JUSTIFIED: Are You Serious? The Balancing Act of Persuasion, and Reasonable Force
  • Adaptive Leader Methodology: An Alternative for Better Outcomes
  • When Do We Teach the Basics?
  • Evolving Threats Small Arms and Small Unit Swarming Tactics as Tools of Terror…Are We Up To the Challenge?
  • Positive Leadership: Invest in People Building a Culture of Innovation
  • Harnessing The Street Cops Wisdom: Taking Whole of Conflict…And Effective Full Spectrum Responses
  • Beyond Active Response: An Operational Concept for Police Counterterrorism Response
  • The Badge: Much More Than a Piece of Medal
  • Wellbeing Check to Knife Attack: Anticipation-The Double Edged Sword and its Affect on Winning and Losing, Up Close and Personal
  • Tactical IQ: Fast Transients Maneuvers and Manipulating the Tempo of Conflict
  • Leadership By Wandering Around!
  • Defeat into Victory: Battling a Tough Climate with Faith, Perseverance and Lessons Learned
  • Evolving Threats and the Fourth Generation Warfare Problem Here at Home
  • We were ready, they weren’t…40 + Years after Newhall, Are We Applying Lessons Learned?
  • When Violence Prevention Fails, Planning Must Enhance Strategy
  • After Action Review: Is It a Tool Used to Learn and Become More Effective or a Tool Used to Punish?
  • Maintaining Mental Calmness and Not Losing Our Cool
  • Evolution of Strategy and Tactics to Ongoing Deadly Action “Active Shootings” and Operational Art
  • Tactical IQ: Interaction, Insight and Imagination, and Initiative…The Building Blocks of Police Operational Art
  • Coffee and Conversation: Is “Officer Friendly” a Factor to Consider in Engagements with Our Adversary?
  • “Sharpening Our Orientation” and Reducing Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
  • Coffee and Conversation: Police Make Mistakes But Seldom Admit Them! What’s Reasonable?
  • The Tactical Decision Maker: The Devil’s Definitely in the Details
  • “Self Awareness” The Forgotten Attribute of Decision Making
  • Coffee and Conversation: Issues that Affect Law Enforcement and Security: Walking our Talk to Officer Safety
  • Coffee and Conversation: Issues that Affect Law Enforcement and Security: The Inevitable Failure of Suburbia?
  • Officer Created Jeopardy: Reduce it with a Strategic and Tactical Mind
  • Law Enforcement and the Utility of Force…Why Cops Can’t Shoot Like the Lone Ranger?
  • Tactics: Applying Methods to Madness
  • Dealing with Conflict, Violence and Crises: by Fred Leland

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