Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes The Control and Directed
This book applies cutting-edge methods from cognitive and evolutionary theories to develop models of conflict between hierarchically-structured cognitive entities under circumstances of imprecision, uncertainty and stress. Characterized as friction and th
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Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes The Control and Directed Evolution of Organized Conflict
Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes
Rodrick Wallace
Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes The Control and Directed Evolution of Organized Conflict
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Rodrick Wallace The New York State Psychiatric Institute New York, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-26423-9 ISBN 978-3-030-26424-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6
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Preface
Organized conflict—overt and covert—has long been of central concern to those entrusted with the maintenance of public health and public order. “Collateral damage” associated with, and following, large-scale conflict is an avalanche of death and social disintegration that entrains vast populations without consideration of combatant status, permanently distorting communities and their historical trajectories. Consequently, even the best-intentioned instances often rewind themselves, leading to repeated outbreaks in a kind of “punctuated equilibrium” that may be more familiar to evolutionary theorists than military strategists and their political overlords. Klinger [1] ends her recent study of social science and national security with these words: In the final analysis, the strategy failure in Vietnam reflects the unfortunate confluence of problems with theory and practice as the strategy was implemented. Failure, in this case, illustrates the consequences of flawed strategic judgment. David Kaiser cites a letter written by William Bundy to American ambassadors in South Korea, Laos, and Japan dated June 1965. In it, Bundy listed three unpleasant choices for strateg
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