A detailed history of how John Boyd's ideas were adopted by the U.S. Marine Corps and transformed into the maneuver warfare doctrine codified in FMFM-1 "Warfighting" (1989). Brown traces the personal and institutional connections between Boyd and Marine Corps officers, the internal debates over doctrinal reform, and the process by which Boyd's briefings — especially patterns-of-conflict — were translated into formal military doctrine.
This is the most thorough account of Boyd's single most important institutional impact — the transformation of Marine Corps warfighting philosophy from attrition to maneuver warfare. See also strategist-and-reformer for the period in which Boyd's Marine Corps engagement took place.