I have always found the lack of inclusion of self-harming and self-sacrificing strategies as a fundamental limitation of game theory and similar analysis. If y

I have always found the lack of inclusion of self-harming and self-sacrificing strategies as a fundamental limitation of game theory and similar analysis. If your intention is to consider every strategy, why wouldn't you consider the strategy of self-sacrifice? That opens many different possibilities, especially when considering changing populations and heterogenous populations. If considering something like the Cold War standoff, what would have been the consequence had the USSR exploded a nuclear weapon in one of their satellite states and claimed it was the work of the US or their allies? False attribution requires self-harm. False flag attacks require self-harm. Many strategies in the overall scheme of things require it, yet in most analysis it is wholly absent.