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confusion worse confounded
Complete confusion, deriving from a usage by Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).
Strategy Reference library
Joshua Rovner
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
...Their adaptations may be wise or foolish, but in either case they are likely to change the trajectory of war, making it difficult to sustain a coherent strategy throughout. A fundamental problem for strategists is that logical plans for linking means and ends are often confounded by interaction effects. Strategists need to think about the sequence of military actions needed to achieve some political goal, but enemy adaptation may throw that sequence completely out of whack. The situation is even more complicated when coalitions are involved. Unexpected...
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