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Michael Soren

The Architecture of Impunity: Why the World Cannot Stop Sudan's Genocide

The Architecture of Impunity: Why the World Cannot Stop Sudan's Genocide

The United States has formally declared genocide in Darfur. The RSF continues killing. Sudan reveals that the humanitarian intervention system was never designed to work against adversaries with great-power protection and independent revenue streams.

China's Silo Fields and the End of Nuclear Primacy

China's Silo Fields and the End of Nuclear Primacy

Beijing's 250 new missile silos near Mongolia have accomplished their strategic purpose before a single warhead launches: demonstrating that China cannot be disarmed. The era of American nuclear primacy has ended, and no treaty framework exists to manage what comes next.

The Highway Through Paradise: How Drug Trafficking Is Remaking the Pacific

The Highway Through Paradise: How Drug Trafficking Is Remaking the Pacific

International drug cartels have transformed Pacific Island nations from transit points into consumption markets. As methamphetamine flows through ancient kinship networks and overwhelms fragile institutions, communities face threats their governments cannot defeat alone.

When the Taps Run Dry: The Cascading Consequences of Water Infrastructure Failure in Australia

When the Taps Run Dry: The Cascading Consequences of Water Infrastructure Failure in Australia

Australia's water and sewerage systems serve millions through infrastructure so reliable it has become invisible. That invisibility masks profound vulnerability—to cyber attack, climate stress, and institutional neglect. When disruption comes, its consequences will cascade far beyond burst pipes.

When the Signal Dies: Australia's Telecommunications Fragility and the Cascading Consequences of Infrastructure Failure

When the Signal Dies: Australia's Telecommunications Fragility and the Cascading Consequences of Infrastructure Failure

The 2023 Optus outage severed ten million Australians from banking, healthcare, and emergency services for twelve hours. The 2025 failure allegedly killed two people. These were accidents. The next major disruption might not be—and Australia remains structurally unprepared for either.

When the Grid Goes Dark: The Cascading Consequences of Australia's Electricity Vulnerability

Energy & Climate

When the Grid Goes Dark: The Cascading Consequences of Australia's Electricity Vulnerability

Australia's electricity grid faces compounding threats from cyber attacks, extreme weather, and accelerating coal closures. The consequences of major disruption cascade through three orders of magnitude—from immediate infrastructure failure to civilisational transformation. Current planning...

The Window That Won't Close: Russia's Shadow Fleet and NATO's Undersea Vulnerability

The Window That Won't Close: Russia's Shadow Fleet and NATO's Undersea Vulnerability

Russia's shadow fleet has spent years mapping NATO's undersea cables and pipelines in the Baltic and North Sea. The intelligence is collected. The targets are known. In a crisis, the vulnerability window—measured in weeks of degraded communications and months of repairs—favors the attacker. NATO...

The Wires Beneath the Waves: Tech Giants and Pacific Sovereignty

The Wires Beneath the Waves: Tech Giants and Pacific Sovereignty

Google and its peers are laying cables to connect the Pacific's most isolated nations. The infrastructure brings genuine benefits—and dependencies that look increasingly like digital feudalism. For island governments that cannot maintain what they do not understand, the gift may cost more than...

The Sahel's Hollow Alliance: Why Russian Backing Cannot Save Africa's Juntas

The Sahel's Hollow Alliance: Why Russian Backing Cannot Save Africa's Juntas

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger expelled Western forces and embraced Moscow's Africa Corps. Eighteen months later, jihadist violence has surged 190% since 2021. The juntas may survive. Their states may not.

The Quantum Countdown: How a Computing Revolution Will Reshape Security, Science, and Power

The Quantum Countdown: How a Computing Revolution Will Reshape Security, Science, and Power

Quantum computers capable of breaking today's encryption may arrive within a decade. The race to upgrade global cryptographic infrastructure has begun—but most organizations have not started running. The consequences of delay compound daily.

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

As 79% of enterprises adopt AI agents, the consequential shifts are not in productivity metrics but in organizational connective tissue—informal networks, tacit knowledge, and accountability structures that never appeared on workflow diagrams.

The Decibel Countdown: China's Submarine Weakness and the Taiwan Window

The Decibel Countdown: China's Submarine Weakness and the Taiwan Window

Chinese submarines remain dangerously loud—detectable by sensors designed to exploit their acoustic signatures. As allied underwater surveillance networks mature faster than Chinese quieting technology improves, Beijing faces a narrowing window where undersea weakness constrains Taiwan options....