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The accelerating use of drones by Mexican and transnational cartels signals a dangerous shift: illicit groups are scaling drone warfare from tactical innovation to a global architecture of power.
The new front in great power competition is not cyber or space, but cognition. Beijing and Moscow are systematically weaponizing perception - deploying artificial intelligence, disinformation, and psychological operations to erode trust in institutions, ...
Russia’s covert “shadow fleet” of tankers and the global resurgence of piracy mark a new phase in maritime competition. From the Baltic to the Caribbean, gray-zone logistics, economic warfare, and criminal opportunism are converging - ...
The rise in political violence in the U.S. (across the political spectrum) and the ongoing government operations crisis are not a traditional left/right "political" narrative. They are symptomatic of the convergence of larger, historically ...
How accelerationism, stochastic terrorism, and networked power are reshaping governance, security, and the role of the nation-state.
Tech billionaires are not content with influencing government from the sidelines — they are now attempting to build communities and quasi-states where they can write the laws, apply advanced tech freely, and escape the constraints ...
The transformative potential of exponential technologies - such as AI, quantum computing, robotics, additive manufacturing, and synthetic biology - depends less on breakthroughs in the lab than on whether society can mobilize the necessary power, ...
A synthesis of insights from books, reports, and expert dialogues (that we have included in previous OODA Loop analysis or were in our research queue) all point to a central theme: enterprises should strategically ...
Agentic AI is reshaping the security landscape, creating new risks that current tools are unable to manage - forcing enterprises to rethink governance. In a discussion led by OODA Network Member Josh Devon, the ...
China’s growing control of ports in Latin America and the Caribbean represents a potential strategic vulnerability for the United States, with 37 projects linked to Chinese firms raising concerns over supply chains, surveillance, and geopolitical ...
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence