OODA Loop

This will hit the business world in short order and every sales manager and engineering supervisor will be throwing this jargon around like it means something to them.

This concept applies in the police shootings that the OT so loves. The problem is that in this day and age of digital video it can make it look like a police officer is shooting when there isn't a need. Something like -

Bad guy does something that is deserving or appears to be deserving of being shot.

Police officer observes action of said bad guy.

Police officer orients on bad guy.

Police officer decides that bad guy needs to be shot.

Police officer acts on that decision and fires his weapon.

Problem is that when broken down in slow motion, the bad guy makes his own decision to stop what he is doing at some point while the office is in the OODA process. According to the books, the officer is supposed to observe the change and restart the OODA process again. In reality, the stress and/or the mental abilities of the person are such that they just go with their initial decision regardless of the new stimuli and shoot anyway. This wouldn't have been noticed just a few years ago but broken down on video it looks like shite.

Not saying this applies to every shoot. Some of them, we have all seen them, are just bad shoots but many are the product of the above process.