This was a good part of the life's work of Genghis John. He eventually persuaded the military, to wield complexity as a strategic weapon. https://en.wikipedia.

This was a good part of the life's work of Genghis John. He eventually persuaded the military, to wield complexity as a strategic weapon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_%28military_strategist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_%28military_strategi... See also, for a mathematical definition and proof, Kolmogorov complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity Re the good and bad of late ancient Roman attempts to manage complexity and disorder see Gibbon, etc. Standardization within the army, and garrisoning all cities with permanent localized troops to discourage rebellions by frontier generals. Gibbon sees the latter as the beginning of the end, since most of Rome's military power was now employed in the task of internal stabilization and couldn't be used against the barbarians.