[baxtr]

There is a good book on that subject by Stephen Bungay called "The Art of Action". He explains the concept of Auftragstaktik. Great book, although a bit hard to read.

[Grosvenor]

There's also Franz Osinga's book Scince, strategy, and war, which covers John Boyd's work in detail.

[baxtr]

I think OODA is fundamentally different to Auftragstaktik.

Auftragstaktik describes a clear purpose / intent. Like: capture the bridge (but: we don’t care how you do it since we can’t foresee specific circumstances)

OODA describes a process of decision making.

So, Auftragstaktik answers who decides what and why.

OODA answers how decisions are made and updated over time.

They’re complementary but different.

[MaysonL]

John Boyd, describer of the “OODA” loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop