Reflexive Processes and Control
TL;DR — The Russian school of reflexive control — modelling an adversary who is modelling you — in a journal almost nothing in English cites.
No. 2, 2002. 124 pages. Reflexive control is the Soviet and Russian research tradition concerned with shaping an adversary’s model of the situation so that they choose, freely and rationally, the action you want. It is adjacent to game theory but its object is different: not the payoff matrix, but the opponent’s perception of it.
Why this particular PDF. The tradition runs largely in Russian, and the English-language literature engages with it thinly and usually at second hand through defence analysts. This journal is the primary venue, and Lefebvre — who emigrated to the US and continued the work — is its central figure.
⚠️ Flagged honestly: I have summarised the journal’s subject and provenance, not its individual papers. The contents are technical and in Russian; treat this card as a pointer to a tradition worth knowing exists, not as a reading of the issue.
Where this came from
124 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.