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LIT-1339: Russia's Reflexive Control Theory and the Military

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StatusUnavailable — filed 2026-10-21; on 2026-10-21 a search for a lawful full text reached none, so it is not read and no NOTE is filed. Unpaywall, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar report it closed with no repository copy, and Taylor & Francis's copy is paywalled. The author's SelectedWorks page (works.bepress.com/tim-thomas, where a search result listed the item) returns Elsevier's notice that SelectedWorks was discontinued in April 2025. No FMSO copy was found by search. A PDF at rit.edu (www.rit.edu/~w-cmmc/literature/Thomas_2004.pdf, cited in a procon.bg listing under an older path) did not connect; the Internet Archive holds a snapshot of 2022-10-09, but web.archive.org is blocked from this client, and that copy is a posting on a university course or conference page of uncertain licence, not the author's or the publisher's, so it would not have been used without a check. So the failure is on availability of a clearly lawful copy, and on access for the archived one. Thomas's later open writing on the subject (the MITRE report Russian Military Thought, 2019, on DTIC) is a different work and was not read as a substitute. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied.
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Thomas, T. L. (2004). Russia’s Reflexive Control Theory and the Military. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 17(2): 237–256. doi:10.1080/13518040490450529.

Not read: no lawful copy was reached on 2026-10-21 (see status_note). The summary is drawn from what the work is standardly cited for.

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A20 put reflexive control at the head of its comparison with regulatory capture: “the target makes a decision through its own decision procedure that nevertheless advances the influencing actor’s objective.” That is the mechanism CLAIM-404 generalizes, control exercised through the conditions of a decision rather than over the decision. The record frames reflexive control as information design through LIT-1021 and THEORY-404; LIT-023 (Clark) is the nearest held work on state information operations.

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