“…Sometimes, such assessments may lead to a hierarchy of nested decision problems, as described in Rios and Rios Insua, similar to the concept of level‐ k thinking; see Stahl and Wilson . Such approach has been applied to several counterterrorism template models including the sequential defend‐attack, the simultaneous defend‐attack, the sequential defend‐attack‐defend, and the sequential defend‐attack model with private information . Note that in contrast with game‐theoretic approaches mentioned above, we do not assume a standard, but unrealistic, common knowledge hypothesis, according to which both agents share information about their utilities and probabilities.…”