About this site
Protection in shifting domains is a publication about what happens to security when risk no longer stays in one place. Today, exposure moves across domains: a post becomes a rumor, a rumor becomes behavior, behavior becomes proximity, and proximity becomes an incident. In that hybrid zone, the usual split between “online” and “real world” stops being useful. Narrative becomes an operational variable.
How to read this site
If you are new here, start in this order:
- The Hybrid Zone: how domains overlap and why traditional boundaries fail
- Narrative Risk: how stories create exposure and compress decision time
- Influence Operations: sharp power, political warfare, propaganda, manipulation
- Cognitive Domain: attention, overload, emotionality, judgment under pressure
- Protection Practice: applied frameworks you can use in planning and movement
or a specific problem, use the tags as entry points and treat each tag like a small hub. This site sits at the intersection of close protection practice, intelligence minded risk work, and strategic studies. It translates research on political warfare, propaganda, influence operations, and the cognitive domain into practical ways of seeing and acting.
What you will find here
- Field-informed essays on protection in narrative-driven environments
- Frameworks for mapping exposure across physical, cyber, and cognitive terrain
- Case-based analysis of influence operations, sharp power, and gray zone pressure
- Notes on attention, overload, judgment, and decision-making under uncertainty
Who it is for
Diplomats, protective teams, security leaders, journalists, policy writers and executives operating where information moves faster than plans, and where perception can shape ground truth.
Why I write it
Because in modern environments, protection does not start at the vehicle door. It starts earlier, in the story space where threat, intent, and opportunity take form.
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