This study is an expansion by AI of 2 records published by Meridian, a studio in the RISCON family, and of the public-domain source texts listed below. Every sentence in a block quote is word for word either a record's own or a passage of a source text saved with this study, and its source line names which; the rest is AI writing. The records are modern summaries written by AI about fictional settings, not archival documents, and the judgments published with them are AI-generated and revisable. They show how the platform reads a decision, not what any state, organisation or person did. The readings through the works named are this study's interpretation. Nothing in this study is advice on military, security, legal or policy decisions.
| Case | Studio | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency budget ends | Meridian | https://meridian.risconlabs.com/q/meridian/FSP-DEF-CIVIL-01 |
| Parliament without quorum | Meridian | https://meridian.risconlabs.com/q/meridian/FSP-DEF-CIVIL-02 |
The source texts this study read are saved with it, and the passages it quotes from them stand in them word for word:
| Text | File | Address |
|---|---|---|
| On War, by Carl von Clausewitz, translated by J. J. Graham | sources/clausewitz-on-war-graham.md | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1946 |
The records were read on 2026-10-05. The texts were fetched on 2026-10-07. This study was written on 2026-10-07.
Bibliography
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832), translated by J. J. Graham (1873).
- Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State (1957).
- Peter D. Feaver, Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (2003).
- Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (2002).
- David Collingridge, The Social Control of Technology (1980).
- Niklas Luhmann, Risk: A Sociological Theory (1993).
- Lee Clarke, Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster (1999).
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