Protocol for the Development of the Theory of Military Ecotones. Version 1.2

Abstract

This protocol records the development of Version 1.2 of the Theory of Military Ecotones through an expert–AI inquiry conducted mainly in Russian and published in English. It preserves the questions, hypotheses, examples, rejected concepts, conceptual revisions, and unresolved problems that produced the current version of the theory. The discussion distinguishes the military ecotone as a real natural–anthropogenic object from the theory used to describe it. It develops the concepts of war as a regime, functional inversion, trigger sensitivity, carrier-dependent multidimensional boundaries, contamination stratigraphy, military-induced rupture, territory of fear, reactivation, relict military ecotone, configurational typology, research contour, and the expert–AI system. It also records why military badland and succession were rejected as general categories for describing the object. The protocol treats scientific inquiry as a visible and versioned process. Artificial intelligence structured the record, while the human author selected the questions, evaluated the reasoning, accepted or rejected concepts, and authorised publication. This document is not a transcript or a conventional research article. Its purpose is to make the development of the theory open, citable, and available for verification without replacing the original discussion with a normalised academic account.