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YOUR THREAT MODEL JUST SHIFTED

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For decades, the defense procurement process was bogged down by antiquated concepts: national sovereignty, Congressional oversight, multi-year appropriations, and owning your hardware outright. If a hostile neighbor launched a salvo of loitering munitions at your national oil refinery or sovereign palace, you had to call the U.S. State Department, fill out Foreign Military Sales (FMS) paperwork, and wait four years for a battery that arrived with a 1,200-page manual and no spare parts.
No longer. Borrowing a page from Silicon Valley, Blackwater founder Erik Prince — alongside Ukrainian software partner Swarmer — has unveiled Vectus Air Defense Systems: the world’s first enterprise Air-Defense-as-a-Service (ADaaS) platform. Continue reading →

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PMSC Weekly Digest: August 24–30, 2026

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Note: This is an initial version of something that will eventually appear in a more detailed and elaborate form. But it is going to take a while before it is done… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is increasingly relying on foreign contractors and mercenary networks to bolster the operational capacity of its armed forces, particularly in countering the advancing March 23 Movement (M23) rebels. Continue reading →

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AI-Cyber Operations: A New Frontier for Public-Private Partnerships

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Opening The Door to the Private Sector

To add to this, a Presidential National Security Memorandum issued this month has directed the creation of a program for authorized private-sector entities to conduct cyber surveillance and cyber effects operations, under federal government control and oversight, against foreign “Cyber-Enabled Transnational Criminal Organizations (CE-TCOs).” Continue reading →

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THE ALLIED FLOOR

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This document is a work of AI invented satire produced by the Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire. Warburg Pincus, Allied Universal, and G4S are real entities referenced solely to ground a fictional premise; every executive, analyst, financial figure, contract, lawsuit, and quotation appearing below is invented and does not describe any actual statement, transaction, or event. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or to actual corporate communications, is coincidental and unintended. No portion of this document should be relied upon for investment, legal, journalistic, or operational purposes. Continue reading →

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AIR DEFENSE PREMIUM+

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Now, for one low monthly payment, your critical infrastructure can enjoy the peace of mind formerly reserved for sovereign states, integrated air-defense commands, and people who own several aircraft carriers. Continue reading →

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The Philippines’ Security Trap

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Ever since the failure of postwar industrialization, the Philippine has built one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated labor-export systems. Recruiters, overseas employment networks, remittance channels and millions of workers accustomed to migration have created infrastructure that is now exploited by military recruiters and traffickers. Continue reading →

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THE MOUTAI ANALYSIS

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Rain again. Beijing does its best noir impression maybe four nights a year, and the private room at the Nine Dragons had drawn one of them — low light, lacquered table, a lazy Susan turning like it had somewhere better to be. Six chairs, six scholars, one bottle of Moutai reserved for a toast nobody had earned yet.Song Bowen poured first, because Song Bowen always poured first. It was less hospitality than choreography — he liked to have something in his hand before he started dismantling an argument, the way other men like a cigarette.
loud, in the same room, what the Western literature gets wrong about us. And to enjoy ourselves while we do it.” Continue reading →

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The US Army is overhauling how it trains its new helicopter pilots to fly, outsourcing training to a private company

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The US Army is overhauling how it trains its new helicopter pilots to fly, outsourcing training to a private company By Kelsey Baker A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Military to begin two-phase program outsourcing security

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Sun, Aug 02, 2026 page2 Military to begin two-phase program outsourcing security By Sam Garcia / Staff writer, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The military is to outsource guard… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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