Abstract
Failure of institutional cognition on Clausewitz landscapes can take many forms. The previous chapter examined ant-on-a-hotplate asymmetric conflict. A related, and particularly chilling, example is the collapse into a “ground state” for which all possible targets are enemies. From the Albigensian Crusade to My Lai and Strebrenica, examples abound.
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The author thanks Dr. D.N. Wallace for suggesting persistent denial as another ground state example.
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Wallace, R. (2020). The Albigensian Ground State. In: Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6_4
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