A somewhat rambling but overall well-founded analysis by Robert Pape, a military theorist.
And so this war is now only about preventing a major catastrophe from turning into a global one.

A somewhat rambling but overall well-founded analysis by Robert Pape, a military theorist.
And so this war is now only about preventing a major catastrophe from turning into a global one.

Trump is desperate — John Mearsheimer
Video prompted to the desperation segment, which says it all
https://youtu.be/1jstl3GhAYg?t=1208
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‘Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none’ — Thomas Jefferson
#asymmetricWarfare #gameTheory #geopolitics #infiltration #pathocracy #strategy #war
Ray McGovern provides a valuable overview of the Iran War with succinct references to US intelligence history and organization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4ubfo93V24
#analysis #espionage #gameTheory #history #war
If you want to know #Iran's strategy in this war, watch the attached video. It's classic "Tit for Tat".
The irony here is that The Rand Corporation, a US Military Think Tank, is the one that conclusively determined that Tit for Tat was the best strategy to use in the face of an irrational adversary, they just didn't know it would be a US President that was the irrational actor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM
#USPol #USPolitics #USPoli #GameTheory #TitForTat #PrisonersDilema

This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day tri...
The US-Iran war | A lecture in geopolitics | 5 March 2026
New paper!
Many social interactions are founded on trust, even though a selfish untrustworthy behaviour often provides a larger payoff. Thus, an implicit or explicit reward is often offered as an incentive for fair behaviour. We show that the existence of such an offer is not enough to promote trustworthiness. In fact, counterintuitively, too large rewards may suppress trust, and lowering the intrinsic cost of offering a reward is not sufficient to boost honesty.
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/8992-hzsq
#physics #mathematics #gametheory #networks #bifurcations #evolutionarygame #reward #trust
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/e13e2eb5-74d8-4fa7-8b92-220f1fcd9041
Can someone blow on this #dandelion with me? >.>
RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116189617814795057
The difference between strategy for people who see life as having an end state and those who see themselves as a part of an ongoing process makes a major difference in how you "play the game". #GameTheory