What would John Boyd do?

From a seminar at National Defense University:

Boyd would have criticized the US strategy after major combat operations had ended. As part of his strategy, Boyd stated that a proper exit strategy is needed that will end the conflict on favorable terms, and will not sow the seeds for future conflict. His criticism would revolve around the fact that US strategic planners had not anticipated the "underlying self-interests, critical differences of opinion, internal contradictions, frictions, and obsessions" of the Iraqi people, and until the US gains a grasp of these conditions, a climate for a favorable outcome in the campaign cannot be achieved. Boyd would say today, that the US must now conduct operations in Iraq to break the guerrillas' moral-mental-physical hold over the population by analyzing and operating inside the OODA loop of the Iraqi guerrillas.

John Boyd also had a strategy for combatting guerrilla warfare. It's a shame more people aren't aware of it.

Better buckle up and hope the USA learns fast on the fly, or else it could be a rough ride ahead.