Patterns of Conflict is Chris von Csefalvay-Bartal's blog about conflict, war, strategy, unconventional warfare (COIN and 4GW) and all sorts of other stuff loosely related to these fields. Patterns of Conflict was the title of a 1986 briefing by military strategist Col John Boyd. The title was chosen partly as a reflection of the author's preference (obsession?) with Boyd's strategic theory, and partly as an allusion to the fact that the author and Patterns of Conflict are of the same vintage.