This book explores the role of deception, delay, and self-deception in the dynamics of organized conflict, taking a formal approach that hews closely to the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories. The resulting probability models can, with some effort¿and some confidence¿be converted to statistical tools for the analysis of real-time observational and ¿experimental¿ data on institutionalized confrontation across both traditional and emerging ¿Clausewitz Landscapes¿.

1. Failure of control.- 2 Failure of institutional cognition I.- 3 Failure of institutional cognition II.- 4 The 'Self-Maskirovka' of military scientism.- 5 Extending the models.