It is an old concept with modern applications. What I think we have to be careful with, is how we apply it.
Getting back to analogy of Japanese sword arts, there was a term used in Japan a few hundred years ago called Kaho Kenpo, or flowery sword arts. The term was used to describe how kenjutsu had drifted away from pragmatic combat techniques to overly complex techniques, often loosing its real world value. That is the problem I see with some folks and the "X", but I see no problems with how Yeager or Gabe are teaching the concept. They are "spot on the X" in this regard.
I have been "on the X" more than a few times, mostly while in vehicles traveling down a road. Every time, the natural response was to get the "hell out of there" by driving forward. We never thought "Oh, I am on the X and now must move off it" but rather responded in a natural manner, made more instinctive through training.
Being in a serious ambush/attack facing overwhelming firepower and underwhelming options tends to kickstart your primordial survival instincts to get the hell out of there. You naturally want to get off the X, and fight from Y, or keeping going to Z and never look back
. What may be unnatural and thus requires training, is combining the "flight" with "fight" as in the case of shooting on the move, etc. That is where I see the need for training and the warrior mindset.
There is more to the X than just getting off of it. You can also "destroy the X" by removing the attacker's ability to focus on the X, or by putting the attacker on his own X.
There are times when you can't get off the X. You have to learn to live on it as well.
X may "mark the spot" but the X can be big or small. The X may not be static, and you may move off an X, only to find yourself on another one. That is the problem I see in applying it to a dismounted gunfight situation.
The OODA loop is a great concept, but it is not a universal law. I have seen what can be described as OODA Warp, in which the loop is apparently broken, lost, or just ignored. Most commonly in the case of stupid people! Lady Luck is a real bitch at times and she don't use the OODA loop...
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