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“The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.”

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Anatol Rapoport

Anatol Rapoport was a renowned psychologist, born on May 22, 1911, and passed away on January 20, 2007. He made significant contributions to the fields of cognitive psychology, game theory, and conflict resolution. more

“Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate.”

“The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.”

Order Process Results Numbers Theory Models Compare Predictions Usefulness Parameters

Book:Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation

Source: Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation

“(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in mathematical terms. Sometimes the logical structure of a conflict situation admits rational decisions; sometimes it does not.”

Doe Sometimes Games Term Decision Situation Theory Conflict Structure Rational Variety Mathematical Logical Rational Decisions

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.”

“The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.”

May Games Individual Player Constant Outcomes Collectives Satisfying Rationality Criteria

Author:Anatol Rapoport

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