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Policy makers depend upon ability to predict the outcome of their policies. Increasingly, in the field of international security ?? in matters of war and peace ?? prediction is based upon quantitative models. The point made here is that just because a model is mathematical, it does not follow that it can be used to make predictions, that non-linear models allow both predictive and chaotic regimes...