John Boyd (OODA Loop) never wrote a book, but he did do long briefings with slides. One of the reports he used when working on that stuff was an interview by the US Army of Grman BG Herman Balck. Balck fought mainly on the Russian front and was credited with being the best tactician OF WWII.
During that US Army interview he was asked something technical about German tanks. He responded, "I don't know anything about tanks." By way of clarification he stated that his principal concern was getting inside the enemy's mind and putting him on the defensive. And keeping him there. He ran rings around the Russians. He wrote one book late in life, "Order in Chaos". There is another coming out on Amazon shortly.
Martin van Creveld wrote a book titled "Fighting Power" which rated the Wehrmacht a substantially more effective force than any of the Allies.
Thank God Hitler was an idiot and made idiot mistakes.
Mala striga deleta est. (The wicked witch is finished.)
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