{"id":34429,"date":"2021-10-06T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34429"},"modified":"2021-10-06T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:30:44","slug":"tactics-tactics-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/06\/tactics-tactics-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactics, Tactics, Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Konrad on <strong><em>gCaptain<\/em><\/strong> has some <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/port-logistics-marine-corps-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">definite opinions<\/a> on the operation of the <strong>Port of Los Angeles<\/strong>, and where the dude in charge should be borrowing tactics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Marine Corps is not the only entity to latch onto [Air Force Colonel John] Boyd\u2019s theories, the Toyota production system is heavily fashioned after his work, and so is the operations of Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook today.<\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with port congestion and logistics?<\/p>\n<p>Well besides the fact that we are obviously playing the game of attrition \u2013 building bigger ships and sending them hey\u00a0<em>diddle diddle, right up the middle<\/em>\u00a0from China to Los Angeles \u2013 which always leads to trench warfare and ultimate defeat\u2026 there is more to this story.<\/p>\n<p>The academic study of logistics is fairly new. In fact, one of the first master\u2019s degree program in logistics was started by Dr. Shmuel Yahalom at SUNY Maritime College. Guess who else ended up teaching at this small and relatively unknown school. General Alfred Grey, USMC (Ret) who was commandant of the corps during the Gulf War, with Captain Anthony Piscitelli who wrote the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oiAn0c\">The Marine Corps Way Of War<\/a>\u201d which details the adoption of Boyd\u2019s theories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One user of a tactic is a footnote. Multiple users across multiple domains is noteworthy. If you&#8217;re involved in a War of Attrition, you might want to read his post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Konrad on gCaptain has some definite opinions on the operation of the Port of Los Angeles, and where the dude in charge should be borrowing tactics: The Marine Corps is not the only entity to latch onto [Air Force Colonel John] Boyd\u2019s theories, the Toyota production system is heavily \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/06\/tactics-tactics-tactics\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34431,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429\/revisions\/34431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}