The gray zone is competition below open war, blending coercion, influence, cyber, proxies, and ambiguity. It creates uncertainty, contested narratives, and delayed decision cycles. This hub focuses on practical effects: weak signals, attribution fog, and how hybrid pressure changes the protective environment.
Close Protection
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
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 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.
Gray 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.