Fight, Flight, Mimic

Fight, Flight, Mimic is the first systematic study of deceptive mimicry in the context of wars. Deceptive mimicry -- the manipulation of individual or group identity -- includes passing off as a different individual, as a member of a group to which one does not belong, or, for a group, to ''sign'' its action as another group.

Mimicry exploits the reputation of the model it mimics to avoid captur...