Podcast Episodes

Commercial Spyware Is a NATO Counterintelligence Problem

Season 2 Episode 7

Commercial spyware has evolved into a privatized intelligence capability that allows governments to acquire advanced mobile exploitation tools withou…

4 months ago

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Governing Proxies Without Command Authority

Season 2 Episode 6

States don’t need command authority to govern proxies—but they do need leverage. The real mechanisms are sustainment, intelligence/targeting support,…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Counterintelligence for the Cloud: Treat Your Hyperscaler Like Contested Terrain

Season 2 Episode 5

Cloud counterintelligence treats hyperscale and GovCloud environments as contested terrain. The decisive fights happen at tenant boundaries, privileg…

5 months ago

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Militarized Policing and the Civil Liberties Trap

Season 2 Episode 4

The strategic mistake is treating militarized policing as a “gear” issue. It is a governance problem: coercive capacity plus weak constraints yield p…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Open Source Naval Order of Battle

Season 2 Episode 3

Commercial maritime sensing has made it easier to build naval order-of-battle estimates from open sources. AIS provides identity and patterns but is …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Rails Without Borders: How Cross Border Dependencies Turn Rail Networks into Cascading Risk Machines

Season 2 Episode 2

International rail networks become uniquely vulnerable at borders because critical flows concentrate into a few corridors and ports of entry, while o…

6 months ago

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How Secure Is U.S. Passenger Rail, And What Does “Critical Rail Infrastructure Security” Look Like?

Season 2 Episode 1

U.S. passenger rail is an open network. Airport-style checkpoints do not scale across hundreds of stations and platforms. Effective security is layer…

6 months, 1 week ago

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HUMINT After UTS: Tradecraft in a World of Total Telemetry

Season 1 Episode 26

Human intelligence is not dead in the age of ubiquitous technical surveillance (UTS), but its center of gravity is shifting. In a world where phones,…

7 months ago

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Export Controls as a Battlefield: The Quiet War Over GPUs and Model Weights

Season 1 Episode 25

Export controls on GPUs and model weights absolutely shape the AI battlefield—but only where chokepoints are real, coalitions are tight, and enforcem…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Catastrophic Cyber Insurance: The Clause That Breaks Deterrence

Season 1 Episode 24

Cat-scale cyber events blow past the diversification logic that makes insurance work. As reinsurers pull back and war-exclusion language broadens, pa…

8 months ago

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