Rhizomatic wall-walking tactics failed disastrously once adversaries deciphered them

Evidence

Arguably successful in controlling the refugee camps, the Israeli military pressed into play this “dynamic relational force field” of “thanatotactics” in invading south Lebanon in the summer of 2006, with decidedly disastrous effects. Highly disciplined and keenly observant Hizbullah fighters figured out the IDF’s operational tactics, lay in waiting as a spider might for the swarm of ants and blew up the buildings entered by the Israeli special operations forces intent on walking through walls. The body count mounted, Israel resorted once again to the politically disastrous pursuit of cluster bombing from above with spiraling collateral damage and international recoil from the horrors of innocent death. Before long, but not before far too much carnage, Israel was forced to withdraw. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 686

Categorization

• XREF: A clean negative feedback loop — a tactic that works once becomes counterproductive once decoded — echoing arms-race dynamics in evolutionary and Cold War contexts.