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G. Feichtinger, A. Novak:
"Terror and counterterror operations: differential game with cyclical Nash solution";
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 139 (2008), 541 - 556.

The purpose of this paper is to study efficient measures to combat terror. To choose efficient actions against terror organizations, the response of terrorists has to be taken into consideration. Thus, an appropriate framework to study the intertemporal
strategic interactions ofWestern governments and terror organizations is dynamic game theory.
Using the open-loop Nash solution concept, it turns out that the systemmay exhibit long-run persistent oscillations. However, transitory behavior is nonunique.

Differential games, Counterterror measures, Limit cycles, Indeterminacy