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Some of the modern ferment comes from a retired fighter pilot named John Boyd, a tactical analyst who has lingered at the Pentagon for years studying the theory of war back to China's Sun Zi (Sun Tzu) around 400 B.C. Boyd's four-hour lecture has been given dozens of times to the top military and civilian officials at the Defense Department. Boyd's message, in essence, is that successful warfare is primarily psychological, not physical; the use of maneuver, surprise, deception and speed to find an enemy's weaknesses (not fight his strengths...
Diana traces American ancestry through Great-Great-Grandfather Frank Work, a dry goods clerk from Chillicothe, Ohio, who became a millionaire in Manhattan as stockbroker with the Vanderbilts. It was his wife Ellen Wood and her mother who, according to Boston Genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, "provide all the interesting relatives": U.S. Presidents, scholars and two Revolutionary War patriots. But Frank Work's spirited daughter Fanny (for Frances) provided the link to European nobility, marrying James Boothby Burke Roche, the cash-short third Baron Fermoy, despite her father's conviction that "international marriage should be a hanging offense." When...
Frances R. Boyd...
...Boyd Norton...
...nationwide study of Black students by William M. Boyd II indicates that the intense competition which Black students in white schools feel has motivated them "to work harder much more frequently than to lose their self-confidence...