Barone Explains OODA

Writing for RealClearPolitics, the always readable Michael Barone takes a concept we noted on August 30, fighter pilot John Boyd's OODA acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act and really makes it sit up and sing. Barone quotes long-time California Democratic leader Willie Brown:

The Republicans are now on offense, and Democrats are on defense.

Boyd's biographer writes of the OODA loop, used by an ace pilot:

The most amazing aspect of the OODA loop is that the losing side rarely understands what happened.

Barone makes a good case that the Obama people are having this "fog of war" experience now.