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Challenges to the US Security Doctrine of “Resilience”

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Institutions, commercial enterprises, communities, political entities, and the social milieus in which they are enmeshed, must engage in cognitive processes of control and command to address day-to-day contingencies and incorporate the learning needed to successfully adapt to larger evolutionary selection pressures.

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Wallace, R. (2020). Challenges to the US Security Doctrine of “Resilience”. In: Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6_7

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