Awareness
The Principal as Attack Surface
A targeting package on a (Ultra)high-net-worth principal can be assembled from open sources in an afternoon. No intrusion required. No technical expertise. Just patience and a network connection.
Close Protection
Close protection is no longer only routes, distance, and physical control. In shifting domains, exposure also comes from digital traces, narrative pressure, and social amplification that can turn online attention into real-world risk. This hub links screen-to-street dynamics, reputational exposure, and decision-making under load.
Close Protection
When Violence Comes With a Media Plan
A Zapopan ambush is not just a tactical story. It is a proactive intel and coordination failure, made worse by delayed state response and a shooter’s video that owned the first draft of reality. The attack was staged for an audience; fear was the payload.
Close Protection
From Triggers to Thresholds
Most days don’t start with a threat, but with friction. I use scenario thinking as a decision tree: triggers, competing hypotheses, indicators, and thresholds. The goal isn’t prediction. It’s readiness without alarmism.
Close Protection
One Man is No man
One operator acting as a logistics node, intelligence section, assistant, service provider, and last line of judgment, while still doing physical protection. It is an all-you-can-eat service, and the price is paid in attention and awareness.
Close Protection
Stories That Kill, Stories That Protect
I grew up in movement. Team sports, solo sports, and a lot of time on the tatami. Martial arts were not a hobby; they were like a second home. I lived in that world of repetition, bruises, discipline and respect. In the 80ies and 90ies, you did not just practice
Disinformation
Beyond the Firehose
The real risk is not one big lie that everyone suddenly believes. It is a slow grind where people no longer trust that anything in their feed is solid. Truth does not vanish; it fragments. Trust does not suddenly disappear; it erodes and retreats into small islands:
Gray Zone
Protection in the hybrid zone
For me, hybrid is where state and non-state actors intersect, often with deniability, so that “ordinary” crime, activism or online noise can serve strategic aims.