With a minimax solution, a zero-sum game is reduced to a completely unilateral affair. One not only does not need to communicate with his opponent, he does not even need to know who the opponent is or whether there is one. A randomized strategy is dramatically anti-communicative; it is a deliberate means of destroying any possibility of communication, especially communication of intentions, inadvertent or otherwise. It is a means of expunging from the game all details except the mathematical structure of the payoff, and from the players all communicative relations.

XREF: Connects to game theory and strategic communication concepts — could link to signaling theory or how deliberate randomness cuts off inference.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 250