Reflexive Control
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2023

This chapter focuses on the orchestration of scientific prediction in secretive and securitized contexts. It presents the case of Russian reflexive control, a Cold War strategic framework for decisions that sought to make the opponent—the West—more predictable and deceivable. Created by Vladimir Lefebvre in the 1960s, reflexive control theory became a fundamental component of Russian military strategic and operational action. The chapter details the trajectory of reflexive control as an epistemo