"Ooda" redirects here. For the Japanese city, see
Ōda, Shimane.
The OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) is a decision-making model developed by
military strategist and
United States Air Force Colonel
John Boyd. He applied the concept to the
combat operations process, often at the operational level during military campaigns. It is often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The approach explains how agility can overcome raw power in dealing with human opponents. It is especially applicable to
cyber security and
cyberwarfare.[1]
The OODA loop has become an important concept in
litigation,[2] business,[3]law enforcement,[4] management education,[5] and
military strategy. According to Boyd,
decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of "observe, orient, decide, act". An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby get inside the opponent's decision cycle and gain the advantage.
^Clarke, Richard (2019). The Fifth Domain:Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats. Penguin Press. p. 81.
ISBN978-0525561965.