The increasing frequency of narratives in virtual kidnapping extortion calls now leveraging pretext of official corruption says something about both the changing character of American society, & the backgrounds of the actors which found such stories plausible based on their own…

Exercise in evaluating cognitive bias impact on intelligence analysis & production. Take tactical level incident reporting from current engagements in Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Burma at similar echelon. Anonymize actors & geography. Ask questions regarding relative military…

Southern military district sub strategic nuclear exercises are a hell of a thing, after last summer’s only very nearly avoided nightmares. One suspects we might learn some things we wish we had known earlier, even as many continue to discount how close the unthinkable might have…

Folks are rarely as technical as they think they are. They are frequently more technical than others might judge on first glance. Many of the things that are weighed in such impressions are not strictly technical at all. There are more ways to be a serious & credible player in…

Legendary mistakes in the annals of liaison relationships…

Proudly announcing one is distributing a special event threat assessment less than 24 hours before said event is scheduled to take place should prompt serious questions in consumer outcomes review about timeliness.

Since the story is now front page headlines in British press, I will say that the first time I heard Lord Oxford recount what was then nonpublic detail of the Gordievsky exfiltration was at a private dinner, in which the gentleman was exceptionally kind in also discussing broad…

Are French tokamak experiments going to be the new floaty rock obsession on the net this week?

You know that the economy is in bad shape when contract hit prices in a major US city have fallen to $200 USD (& the offer to let the hitter keep the provided gun, if they are stupid enough to want to). Oversupply of cut rate sicarios, wish switches, stagflation... No wonder why…

I am sad that the full court product launch of an integrated intelligence offering across Google almost certainly starts the Killed by Google clock. I will not be placing odds.

TFW one reaches for SATCOM gear, only to realize the last set was kinetically decommissioned after use on the prior mission; & the packaging just kept in case of audit. But there is not enough time to get a replacement in. This is why the worst recurring nightmares are not only…

At first glance thought this looked more like an HK53 in 5.45x39mm and seriously wondered what 90s black budget program this fell out of. What might have been, in an alternate history.

PLA almost certainly busily collecting signatures associated with IADS deployment during Balikatan. At some density of space based ISR coverage, & likely cyber accesses, key movements become increasingly transparent. One would like to believe this reinforces conventional…

Intelligence studies candidates: well worth pursuing these awards. I was too busy doing the work whilst I was taking classes to take advantage of the opportunities that Inman opened up. You should have a go. & in the end you also have a published cite associated with the process

Given RSAC ineffective attempt at rentacop grade weapons screening that does nothing but emphasize the concentration of disarmed potential victims for would be attackers already proven in past to have been drawn to such locations, it is ironic that an industry of risk…

The CPC United Front efforts would see far less traction in pitching social credit scoring in the West but for the number of useful idiots which really just want to have an authority figure award them “points to Gryffindor” because they never grew out of that phase where they…

UKR railway strikes at strategic depth both cross real escalation thresholds as considered in Russian doctrine (vice in earlier Western mirror imaging), & present Arbat with in kind parity for it own targeting options beyond local war. This is a dangerous moment once again, & no…

You know that you are dealing with a very high intensity war when we speak of seasoned veterans not as those with multiple years of deployments, but as having survived months at the front…