In Jeff Sutherland's book "Scrum", he talks very briefly about a military theoretician, John Boyd, that identified a decision making cycle (placing high value on feedback loops) that is explicitly and implicitly used by anyone that needs to make rapid decisions and adjust to the consequences of those decisions quickly. Before he came up with the decision making framework, Boyd wrote a paper while in the Air Force called "Destruction and Creation" that I believe applies directly to what you are talking about here. Here's the link, if you scroll down to the bottom in the Source List you can see a link to the paper.
In Jeff Sutherland's book "Scrum", he talks very briefly about a military theoretician, John Boyd, that identified a decision making cycle (placing high value on feedback loops) that is explicitly and implicitly used by anyone that needs to make rapid decisions and adjust to the consequences of those decisions quickly. Before he came up with the decision making framework, Boyd wrote a paper while in the Air Force called "Destruction and Creation" that I believe applies directly to what you are talking about here. Here's the link, if you scroll down to the bottom in the Source List you can see a link to the paper.
http://dnipogo.org/john-r-boyd/