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Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
“Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
Special Tactics Online Course Intro
LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence?
Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
The Why was born out of pain
Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions
We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
Make Many Mistakes and Learn
Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
Are You Serving Those You Lead?
Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
Types of Cases
Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
Keeping the Peace
Experiential Learning Defined
How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
Somewhere Along the Way
Taking It Personally
The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
The Five Learning Disciplines
Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
“Just the facts Ma’am”
Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
What is Leadership?
Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
How Do We Inspire Action?
Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
Book Review: American Spartan
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
Why good leaders make you feel safe
Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
Adaptive Leader Program
Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
Cops or Soldiers?
Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
Convinced or Committed?
Discipline: The Lost Art of Leadership
How Do We Develop Adaptability?
Improve the Work…Develop the People
Incident Strategy and Tactics: The Baby Diaper Analogy
Adaptive Leaders …Develop Strength of Character
How About Some Empathy, Please?
Get Into the Sandbox, Think and Play and Let’s Inspire… Adaptability
Stoning The Gatekeepers: Is It Not Time Society Attempts To Better Understand Police Use of Force?
First-Line Supervisors Do The Most Important Training
Why Tactical Decision Games? Because They Challenge The Status Quo & Emphasize Tactical Options In Developing Courses of Action.
Why Does Understanding The OODA Loop Matter to Cops?
How Do You Develop Strength of Character and Adaptive Leaders?
Adaptive Leadership Handbook: Innovative Ways to Teach and Develop Your People
Don’t Fear Failure; Instead Make Failure Your Classroom
In Forging Adaptability…Distinguish Technical Problems from Adaptive Challenges
The Doctor in SWAT School (and What His Performance Says About Police Culture)
Designing Law Enforcement: Adaptive Strategies for the Complex Environment by John A. Bertetto
Guest Post: Toward a Police Ethos: Defining Our Values as a Call to Action by John Bertetto
Adaptability is Key in Handling Crisis Situations…Be In Command and Out Of Control
For Meaningful Lasting Results, Get Into the Weeds…and Identify Root Causes
Want to get better and be safer? Debrief!
How to Forge Adaptability in Police Leaders and Culture
Adaptive Leadership is Purposeful Learning in Real Time
Book Review: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and The World
Growing Leaders Who Practice Mission Command and Win the Peace, Lt. Col. Douglas A. Pryer, U.S. Army
Achieving Greatness by Giving Control and Creating Leaders
Choosing Adaptability by Gary Gagliardi and The Science of Strategy Institute
The Review of Boyd & Beyond 2013…..
Have You Thought About Why You Choose To Lead?
Incident Command: the big picture by Louis Hayes
Understanding the OODA Loop by Derek Stephens
The Cops Amaze Me by Bob Lonsberry
I Am An Optimist. It Does Not Seem Too Much Use Being Anything Else!
Mike Rayburn Asks…What Makes A Good Street Cop?
Fighting the good fight with moral clarity by Lt. Dan Marcou
Are Gated Communities Really Secure?
Top 25 Criminal Justice Blogs We made the list at # 3
Incident Command: the team cohesion aspect of the SitRep
Book Review: Always Picked Last: Conquering the Bullies: A Guide To Finding Your Way in Life…
To Continuously Improve We Must Set Boundaries and Expectations
Elite Performance…Takes WORK? Say it ain’t so!
Create Your Fantasy Island Organizational Culture by Tracey Richardson
Have You Stopped a Car Today? Improving Patrols Tactical Effectiveness with Vehicle Stops
Incident Command: Communicating the Situation and Location By Louis Hayes
Incident Command: a problem-solving approach By Louis Hayes
SWAT Cop Says American Neighborhoods Are ‘Battlefields,’ Claims Cops Face Same Dangers As Soldiers In Afghanistan
Overmilitarization: Why Law Enforcement Needs to Scale Down Its Use of Military Hardware and Tactics By Evan Bernick
John Boyd’s Art of War Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel. By William S. Lind
Police militarization and rise of the warrior journalist by Lance Eldridge
Strategic Studies Institute: Cartel Car Bombings in Mexico Authored by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, Mr. John P. Sullivan
To Strengthen And Preserve Cohesion Your Values…Equal Their Values
Another Must Read Book From Don Vandergriff: “The Path To Victory” Revised Kindle Version with a new foreword
Safe Streets, Overruled By Heather McDonald of the City Journal
Must Read Book On Leader Development, Updated Kindle Addition: Don Vandergriff’s, Raising The Bar:
Brian Willis Offers Great Info on Defeating…The Enemy Of Innovation
Police militarization and the Ethical Warrior By Jack E. Hoban & Bruce J. Gourlie
“A Way” To Develop a Toxic Leader: How We as Leaders Create Our Own Monsters
The Guy Behind the Guy, Behind the Guy: A Case for Taking our Roles More Seriously
Flatenning the Decision Cycle in Tactical Units
Tactical Supervision: Coaches and Chessplayers: Guest Post By Louis Hayes
To effectively function in the initial, chaotic stages of a crisis, develop adaptive leaders
FEAR VS COURAGE: IT’S YOUR CHOICE By Danny Cox
Skid Row Terrorist
Col John Boyd: Question and Answer Video
Great Piece on Adaptability by Brian Willis: The Dinosaur versus The Cockroach Training Model
The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement
The Missing Piece of NIMS: Teaching Incident Commanders How to Function in the Edge of Chaos by Police Chief, Cynthia Renaud
The Human Problem? by Frank Borelli an Officer.com article
From Police One 3 techniques for controlling your brain with Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D.
Great Article From Police One with Val Van Brocklin: How to create ‘fierce followers’ in law enforcement
Deadly Force: Have We Lost Our Senses? Guest Post by Louis Hayes
Tactical Philosophy 101 A Guest Post by Louis Hayes
Leadership in Unconventional Crises
Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses: Reforming Leadership in the Age of Catastrophic Crises and “Hyper complexity”
JOHN BOYD WAS A PATRIOT, A MORAL LEADER, AND A BONAFIDE VISIONARY. AND YES, HE WAS A MAVERICK.
Force Science Research Study: The Influence of Officer Positioning on Movement During a Threatening Traffic Stop Scenario
Guest Post: Adaptive Decision-Making by Sid Heal
“More Better,” Ideals, and To Be or To Do: Guest Post by Scott Shipman
Learning Like an Expert: A Guest Post by Marshall Wallace
What Represents a High Level of Professionalism?
This Memorial Day Remember: The Path of The Warrior
School Security: Sharing and Enhancing Best Practices
Guest Post by Michael G. Moore: Boyd’s Snowmobile …or what made Alexander “The Great”
Coffee Pots and Baseball Bats: Household Items Offer Protection
Learning to Adapt With A Professional Reading Program
Boyd and Beyond 2013
Guest Post by Tyana Daley: Developing Law Enforcement Leaders and Nurturing Smart Thinkers
Somewhere Between Born and Made: Where Good Leaders Come From
Is Today Your Day?
Guest Post by John Demand: “You look for the bomb…we look for the bomber”
What Do OODA Loop’s Mean to the Street Cop, Wanting To Become “World Class” Tacticians?
The Psychology of a Boston Marathon Terrorist: 10 Questions for a Retired Marine
Watching Boston “Work Together” Made Me Proud to Be a Police Officer
What Makes a “World Class” Tactically Proficient Peacekeeper?
Tactical Decision Games to Increase Speed and Maturity of Problem Solving: The Lessons Learned
The Path to Better Execution in Seeing, Understanding and Solving Complex Problems is a Learning Organization
A Systemic Concept for Operational Design: a Robust Tool Law Enforcement Should Use in Preparing for Chaotic Crisis
How shift debriefings can improve officer safety Published at P1
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
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 For Policing 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 To Gain 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