When two executives are each trying to get their organizations to defect first in a standard prisoner’s dilemma when the organizations both have impulses towards cooperation, the identical strategies among the executives do not constitute “cooperation” between them.
I agree each has motivations to see that their orders are followed regardless of what is good for the organizations, but this is not cooperation because both would have their organizations defect regardless of whether the other organization was inclined to cooperate or defect.
Cooperation between generals on two sides might look something like the Battle of Tannenberg, where each Russian general may have wanted the Germans to beat the other general before beating the Germans himself. That would be manifested as lack of conflict, such as the Russian First Army waiting for the German Eighth Army to beat the Russian Second Army before joining the battle.
Cooperation to induce fighting might be each HQ broadcasting vulnerable locations for the other artillerists to shoot at, or similar. I don’t know of any such cases, but then again, I wouldn’t necessarily know of them.
Promotion and social esteem? The paths of glory lead but to the grave—for thems as do the actual fighting.
When two executives are each trying to get their organizations to defect first in a standard prisoner’s dilemma when the organizations both have impulses towards cooperation, the identical strategies among the executives do not constitute “cooperation” between them.
I agree each has motivations to see that their orders are followed regardless of what is good for the organizations, but this is not cooperation because both would have their organizations defect regardless of whether the other organization was inclined to cooperate or defect.
Cooperation between generals on two sides might look something like the Battle of Tannenberg, where each Russian general may have wanted the Germans to beat the other general before beating the Germans himself. That would be manifested as lack of conflict, such as the Russian First Army waiting for the German Eighth Army to beat the Russian Second Army before joining the battle.
Cooperation to induce fighting might be each HQ broadcasting vulnerable locations for the other artillerists to shoot at, or similar. I don’t know of any such cases, but then again, I wouldn’t necessarily know of them.