Plain-English doctrine, evidence, and counters for leaders under pressure.
Use trade, subsidies, and supply-chain leverage to shape choices without firing a shot. In boom times it looks like cooperation; in crisis it feels like coercion. The art is dependency—who needs whom when shocks hit.
Currencies, debt, and capital flows are invisible terrain. Incentives draw investment and technology inward; regulations, listings, and liquidity become pressure points when narratives turn.
Narrative is infrastructure. Control channels, flood the zone, and tune algorithms so optimism amplifies—and dissent dissolves. The same tools that educate can anesthetize.
Morale is a resource. Signals of abundance calm; signals of scarcity and risk reshape behavior. Fear and hope cycle to wear down resistance and normalize new baselines.
Rules, standards, and jurisdictions are slow-moving weapons. Procedure outlasts protest: selective enforcement, venue shopping, and emergency acts turn legality into leverage.
Coalitions decide outcomes before votes are cast. Shape elites, boards, campuses, and associations so interests converge—then decisions ‘naturally’ align.
Small moves, outsized effects. Proxies, deniable ops, and gray-zone probes stretch defenses while staying below thresholds that would trigger open conflict.
Software eats the battlespace. Intrusions, data leverage, AI models, and supply-chain implants create persistent access—quiet influence that compounds over time.
Stories teach people what to want. Curricula, platforms, and entertainment stitch identity. Showcase success, edit history, and values move with the medium.
The engine room. Models steer what people see, buy, vote, and fear. We audit data, test outputs, and force human override on high-impact calls. No black boxes in safety-critical use.
Quiet weapons wreck communities. We trace precursors and partners, deploy testing and SOPs, and move fast when lives are on the line. Evidence preserved, end-use vetted.
Data is fuel. Treat it like ammo. Cut collection to the bone, lock down the rest, and rip out hostile gear. SBOMs, provenance, zero-trust, on-prem where it counts.