Book: The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past #2)
Synopsis:
A logical way of looking at sociology, with the axioms for Cosmic Sociology
The above axioms lead to the following corollaries:
Dealing with an adversary in an asymmetric setting, where 1. they know everything about your technology, but not vice-versa, 2. they can limit/sabotage your technology, but not vice-versa? - This isn’t too different from how battles have been fought in the past. Boyd’s OODA loop comes to mind about dealing with this. Spy craft and use of cloaks and illusions to send enemy on wrong track. For e.g. when India was working on the second series of nuclear tests in 1998, they had to use similar mechanisms to avoid surveillance from US satellites. The Wallfacer project is a similar mechanism.