• 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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