I want to begin by wishing you well in these difficult times and by making one thing clear. The picture I am about to paint is not the one I want to be true. It is the one I believe is true, based on what the economics, math, data, and the indicators I use to read reality increasingly reveal. Here …
The Stratosphere: America’s Next Battlefield
PDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this post for offline reading. Download it here. For most of the post–Cold War era, American defense planning ran on a simple model: Space was a sanctuary, immaculate, untouchable. The homeland a deep rear area. And the hard part was shifting power outward, not defending inward. That model drove an entire generation of procurement …
Asymmetry, Subterfuge, & Tomorrow Wars
It has been a year since the Chinese Spy Balloon incident. Nobody is talking about it anymore. Except for maybe a few nerds who track this stuff. I get it. It’s not the juicy hot topic of the day like it was when it first happened — and we tend to stop giving a shit about stuff once we hear …



