#I'm not familiar enough of Schelling to confidently talk about him :( But if anyone wants to add to this 👀👀👀

[sskk-manifesto]

When Mori talks about Nash in relation to war strategy, it's because of Nash's contribution to game theory (the Nash equilibrium). Game theory is a model that helps interpret interactions between players, and while it can be (and is) also applied to analysis of war strategy, it is a bit of a stretch to say that Nash, who was a mathematician, studied war strategies (as far as I'm concerned, he very much did not. To say Nash was an academic who studied war strategy is inaccurate). It's still funny that Mori is bringing up game theory again after (inaccurately) talking about it in the last season 1 episode, he must really like it.

It's a bit destabilizing to see Kissinger being mentioned here– because differently from all the other authors and thinkers fleetingly mentioned in bsd, it's one that feels close in time and inseparable from our world's history (the fact alone that he was still alive when this episode aired is terribly disorientating for me). You can't think of Kissinger without thinking about the Cold War, but it's unfeasible to think the bsd universe experienced something akin to our Cold War. Anyways, he was one of the main enablers of the realist theory as an international relations school of thought, which I suppose is a theory that fits Mori to a tee.