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From the immune response of a higher animal against a pathogen to organized warfare between “imperialists” and “insurgents”, agents of markedly different material resources have contended on Clausewitz landscapes characterized by uncertainties of “friction” and the “fog-of-war”. Such asymmetric dynamics can be analyzed using the tools of information and control theories, significantly extending our understanding of why the gods are not always on the side of the big battalions.
...American institutional culture, though necessarily disciplined by the prospective needs of warfare, must adopt and follow a way in warfare broadly compatible both with the overarching strategic culture, and, more particularly, with the country’s public culture.
—C.S. Gray
Ride to the sound of the guns.
—Major General George Armstrong Custer
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Wallace, R. (2020). On Asymmetric Conflict. In: Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6_3
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