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Analysis of AI, semiconductors, cyber operations, software systems, and digital infrastructure as instruments of strategic competition.

The Spy Who Couldn't Disappear: HUMINT in the Digital Age

The Spy Who Couldn't Disappear: HUMINT in the Digital Age

Human intelligence tradecraft has survived every technological revolution from the telegraph to the satellite. The smartphone may be different. In a world where everyone leaves a digital trail from birth, the ancient art of espionage faces its most fundamental transformation.

The Cartography of Nowhere

The Cartography of Nowhere

The Great Repatriation

The Great Repatriation

The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor

The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor

European health ministries have traded data sovereignty for operational capacity, signing contracts with intelligence-linked analytics firms that GDPR cannot constrain. The legal architecture was designed for a threat that no longer exists.

The Invisible Colleague: Second-Order Consequences of AI Agents in the Workforce

The Invisible Colleague: Second-Order Consequences of AI Agents in the Workforce

As AI agents move from augmenting human work to replacing it, the visible efficiency gains obscure deeper structural shifts: fractured career pipelines, gamified hiring systems, new forms of political dependency, and the quiet collapse of institutional knowledge transfer.

The Fence That Feeds the Fire

The Fence That Feeds the Fire

Donald Trump has inherited the most ambitious technology containment regime since the Cold War and vowed to make it stronger. The controls are working—just not in the ways Washington intended. As export restrictions multiply, they are reshaping the US-China competition in ways that may...