Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a PhD in physics from Columbia, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the epidemiology of mental disorders at Rutgers. He has worked as a public interest lobbyist, including two decades conducting empirical studies of fire service deployment, and received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to numerous works on public health and public policy, he has published a dozen peer reviewed papers and chapters modeling evolutionary process, and many formal studies of human, institutional, and machine cognition.

Chapter 1. Contrasting tactical and strategic dynamics.- Chapter 2. Doctrine and the fog-of-war.- Chapter 3. On asymmetric conflict.- Chapter 4. The Albigensian ground state.- Chapter 5. Can there be 'Third Stream' doctrine?- Chapter 6. Reconsidering doctrine and its discontents.- Chapter 7. Challenges to the US security doctrine of 'Resilience'.- Chapter 8. Culture and the induction of emotional dysfunction on a Clausewitz landscape.- Chapter 9. Expected unexpecteds: Cambrian explosions in Lamarckian systems.- Chapter 10. Reconsidering Clausewitz Landscape dynamics.- Chapter 11. Failure of a paramilitary system: a case history of catastrophe.- Chapter 12. An emerging catastrophe: The weaponization of emotional sentience in AI.- Chapter 13. Final Remarks.- Chapter 14. Mathematical Appendix.