What is the OODA Loop?

Observe Orient Decide Act! A quick overview of something you do constantly.

[RichardSenn]

Bold of you to assume that the car isn't trying to hit me. The drivers in my city are absolutely nuts.

[forcea]

Observe: I see that Usually Happless has uploaded a video

Orient: I have time to watch the video

Decision: I decide to watch the Usually Hapless video

Act: I watch the Usually Hapless video.

[larsdejong]

Some mad lad has made an entire schematic to explain how we think. I love it.

[whyandaccount]

A good ISR plan will also help extend your Observe and Orient phases, as you learn more earlier. E.g.: you are told about the car when its 100m away as opposed to when you step off the curb.

[__Smile]

I've never really understood the orient section on the OODA loop so thank you for explaining it out

[realQuiGon]

The street crossing example is such a great choice to break down the OODA loop and explain it! I will use that as well from now on :)

[zanaduz]

A particularly famous example illustrating how surprise and tempo can paralyze decision making in an enemy is the Fall of France campaign of 1940. Operational surprise and the very slow centralized decision-making process of the French high command lead to strategic paralysis as decisions made became increasingly outdated to the actual situation on the ground.

[porterpoteet]

The OODA loop sounds a lot when two people walk into each other's path and keep going the same directions trying to get around one another.

[khorgor]

during my apprenticeship to become a chemical plant operator/worker they gave us the code of "Sehen-Denken-Handeln" or "See-Think-Act" in english. It helps in critical situations to do those three easy steps to overcome those situations without making critical failures.

[memeone]

Ryan Mcbeth literally just talked about this. Worth a watch from a defence perspective.

[austinrose]

This reminds me of my board questions when I was in the Army.

[christiandelao]

It is also important to let a situation develop, before taking immediate action, its heavily dependent on the situation, but acting to quickly is how you wander into ambushes and find yourself out of position when it matters

[afrikacorpse]

Not going to lie, when I first saw the title to this video, I thought to myself "hmm, I've heard of the Fulda Gap, but never the OODA Loop - this should be interesting". And it was interesting, just not in the way I expected it.

[lieutenantpolo]

Perhaps a little immature of me, but the "OODA loop" is quite funny sounding.

Though definitely an interesting theory, and a great explanation mr hapless

[shamasmacshamas]

The blue pentagram looking thing under Orient looks a lot like your channel logo

[whyandaccount]

9:00 minutes.
We spent days on this at Capt's School - long ago.

[caloha]

I was trained during the dawn of Boyd acolytes in the Marine Corps and the maneuver warfare advocates but Lazerpig has made me reexamine some of the doctrine we were taught.

[rightfeelI]

wow this is awesome I hope we get more tactic vids like this.

[EssacCrown]

I strongly recommend you to make one example of OODA layer while you play the CM series next time

[tomssimshack]

You have an OODA loop, I have a BOHICA loop. We are not the same.