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By Jerry

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NATO Still Decides War Together. The Border No Longer Waits for the Decision.
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NATO Still Decides War Together. The Border No Longer Waits for the Decision.

Along NATO's eastern border, classification now takes seconds. Attribution still takes weeks.

Geopolitics Sep 20 · 16 min read
NATO 3.0 Named the Dependency. The Metrics Measure Spending.
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NATO 3.0 Named the Dependency. The Metrics Measure Spending.

How Europe's procurement dependency on American weapons deepened during the rearmament that was meant to reduce it.

Geopolitics Sep 19 · 15 min read
Everyone Is Watching the AI Rules. Nobody Is Watching the $16,000 Graphics Card.
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Everyone Is Watching the AI Rules. Nobody Is Watching the $16,000 Graphics Card.

How the money that made AI cheap to rent made it expensive to own.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 17 · 30 min read
Everyone Sees Conspiracy Theorists. Nobody Reads the Source.
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Everyone Sees Conspiracy Theorists. Nobody Reads the Source.

The mechanism that permits the question while making an answer unnecessary.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 12 · 17 min read
The CIA Stopped One Cable in 2000. The 9/11 Files Still Cannot Say Why.
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The CIA Stopped One Cable in 2000. The 9/11 Files Still Cannot Say Why.

Disclosure filled the record of what was done and left the record of why almost empty.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 11 · 19 min read