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To paraphra se a common expres sion from military decision making :

“No plan survives contact w ith a d isaster-in-the-mak ing.”

Naturalistic de cision-making require s adapting plans to handle the unique

evolution of particu lar threats (see Kle in, 1999; Klein et al., 2003; Smith et al.,

2004 or, for a particular case , see how mission control f unctions as a JCS re-

exam ine the episode on pp. 69-70). Not al l fields of practice have to confront

domains where the potential for surprise is so high, but all JCSs are adapted to the

potential for surprise in their fields of practice (the fundamental place of the Law of

Requ isite Variety and its implications for work as control and adaptation in JCS-

Foundations, pp. ...