Grant T. Hammond was a professor at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base who became one of Boyd's most important academic interpreters. He authored "The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security" (2001), the first serious academic treatment of Boyd's intellectual contributions. Hammond delivered the eulogy at Boyd's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on March 11, 1997. His most enduring contribution was editing Boyd's collected briefings — "A Discourse on Winning and Losing" — for publication by Air University Press in 2018, more than two decades after Boyd's death. This posthumous compilation finally made Boyd's briefing materials available in a single, citable academic volume. Hammond represented the institutional irony of Boyd's legacy: an Air Force academic who recognized Boyd's genius even as the broader Air Force institution had marginalized him.