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World-building to 2050

Narrative Intelligence and the Architecture of Plausible Futures Orbis Futura Review — Essay #11 Epistemic status: Speculative. What follows is…

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Detecting What Doesn’t Want to Be Seen

A cross-domain framework for modelling and evaluating detection systems against threats designed to evade them, with hypersonic tracking as the…

38 min read
Inverse Intelligence

Conscious incompetence, the conformity of large language models, and the coming geopolitics of epistemic capability The strategic entwinement of innovation…

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Article 42.6: A Modern Frame

Why the answer to attribution-proof and autonomous aggression is not a better tripwire but a permanent framework of cooperation —…

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The Money Shapes the Frontier

Three regimes of capital — sovereign wealth, the venture-intelligence model, and regulation itself — are reshaping the innovation frontier in…

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COTS Under Stress

Stress-Extended VV&A: a proposed framework for bounding the credibility of commercial-off-the-shelf simulation in defence systems Abstract Defence organisations increasingly rely…

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The Boomerang

Assistance and sanctions both produce unintended innovation effects. From the Dawes Plan to Iran’s Hormuz doctrine, the pattern is general….

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Primes, Pretenders and the New Geographies

Why ‘defence innovation’ is not one market but three — and why treating it as one is an error about…

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Where the Future is Being Built

The Geography of Research as a Leading Indicator of Geopolitical Power EPISTEMIC LABEL:  PROBABLE   I. The Argument: Geography Outperforms…

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The Soviet Equation

What sits in today’s open literature, dismissed, the way Ufimtsev’s math once sat in a Soviet drawer? Epistemic label: SPECULATIVE….

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Endless Frontier, Edited Forward

  “Basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress.” — Vannevar Bush, Science, the Endless Frontier, 1945[^bush1945] Overarching epistemic status:…

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