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RichardKennaway comments on Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict" - Less Wrong
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A search through the comments on this article turns up exactly zero instances of the term "Vietnam".
Taking a hard look at what Schelling tried when faced with the real-world 'game' in Vietnam is enlightening as to the ups and downs of actually putting his theories -- or game theory in general -- into practice.
Fred Kaplan's piece in Slate from when Schelling won the Nobel is a good start:
http://www.slate.com/id/2127862/
Thanks for that extra light.
I have the 1980 edition of "The strategy of conflict" from the library at the moment. It's a reissue of the 1960 edition with an added preface by Schelling. Despite the Slate article closing by saying "Tom Schelling didn't write much about war after that [the Vietnam War]. He'd learned the limitations of his craft.", in his 1980 preface he judges the book's content as still "mostly all right".