C^3 Modelling With Symmetrical Rationality

In the absence of contrary information, it would seem prudent for competitors to attribute to their opposition the same level of rationality they attribute to themselves. Using a simple but interesting C^3 (command, control, and communication) problem for illustration, a method is proposed for incorporating symmetrical rationality without resorting to the general multistage game framework which has proved difficult to apply in practice. A "criterion filtering" technique is then proposed for the approximate solution of the resulting model which does not require integration operations and which appears to be especially well suited for C^3 problems with finite admissible control sets. Annotated pointers to related work can be accessed here: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/cfhome.htm