Political Warfare - Protection in shifting domains

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Political Warfare

Political warfare uses influence, coercion, economics, proxies, and information to shape outcomes without open conflict. This hub connects state competition, narrative campaigns, and gray zone pressure to real impacts on security environments, legitimacy, and decision-making.

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Define safe

People love saying the world is “safer” after Iran was hit. Fine. Define safe. If energy chokepoints are under pressure, NATO is strained, hybrid warfare is rising, cyberattacks intensify and trust in institutions erodes, then no, the world is not safer. It is more brittle.

Two Wartime Videos, one Battlespace

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Two Wartime Videos, one Battlespace

Two wartime videos. Two propaganda languages. One polished and state-centered, the other mythic and identity-driven. Different aesthetics, same strategic aim: to shape perception, steer emotion, and compete over meaning long before facts are weighed in depth.

TikTok USDS and Cognitive Warfare: Shifting the Threat Model from External to Internal

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TikTok USDS and Cognitive Warfare: Shifting the Threat Model from External to Internal

A thesis-based reassessment of TikTok’s strategic risk profile: how the USDS (U.S. Digital Security) deal alters the foreign control threat model, and which influence and governance questions remain unresolved.

When Your Ally Starts Campaigning In Your House

Influence Operations

When Your Ally Starts Campaigning In Your House

I remember a discussion we had during our international relations class, back when we still called the system “unipolar”. Someone asked what the world would look like if it slid back toward multipolarity. What framework would we use? How would we know we were already there? Looking back, one of