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Introduction Each year, the OODA Almanac is the most provocative piece we publish. We take the opportunity not only to provoke your thinking with disruptive ideas but to peer over the edge into the emergent future. In past years we have charted exponential disruption, jagged transitions, reorientation, and whiplash. This year the theme is re-anchoring,…
Why Venezuela, Iran, and the Digital Battlefield May Be Reframing Global Statecraft In early January 2026, the United States carried out Operation Absolute Resolve, combining combined elite airborne forces, covert intelligence, and, reportedly, cyber effects that plunged portions of Venezuela’s capital into darkness. President Donald Trump’s comments suggested that “certain expertise” had been used to…
By Dr. David Bray and Jeff Jonas Executive Summary The democratization of technology has created the democratization of danger. Individuals and small groups can now deploy drones, personal robots, gene-editing tools, and other accessible technologies to cause harm that once required nation-state resources. The most dangerous response to this reality is fear-driven overreach—a “knee-jerk overswing”…
The emerging evidence suggests AI is not failing because it lacks capability, but because organizations are stalling at the bottom of a productivity J-curve, where measurement gaps, governance friction, and rework overwhelm early gains.
Healthcare was among the first sectors to operationalize AI—and is now the first to test its limits. As investment concentrates and expectations harden, the sector offers early lessons on where AI creates durable value.
Today’s geopolitical realities are that cyber power sits alongside diplomacy and military force as a fundamental instrument of statecraft.
Guest speakers Junaid Islam, Alan Boehme, and Bob Flores contextualized a growing reality: as AI becomes inseparable from critical infrastructure, recurring outages and weak governance are turning innovation into a systemic risk.
An unprecedented leak (~500+ GB) exposes the technical architecture, bureaucratic ecosystem, operational logic, and geopolitical implications of China’s censorship superstructure.
Two roadmaps from The G7 Cyber Expert Group and Europol outline how financial authorities and institutions should move from Quantum awareness to disciplined, risk-based execution.
As adversaries weaponize perception, trust, and decision-making – often below the threshold of armed conflict – the battle for cognitive superiority is becoming decisive.
As autonomous, goal-driven systems move from copilots to decision-makers, Agentic AI is reshaping warfare, intelligence, and influence operations – while simultaneously expanding the attack surface across data, models, agents, and human trust.
For our purposes, the recent stoic, realpolitik “capture” of a baseline reality by the Canadian Prime Minister puts a geopolitical stake in the ground amidst an information ecosystem ripe with misinformation and spectacle.
Today, the U.S. used the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to escalate economic and diplomatic pressure on Europe over Greenland, testing alliance norms, market stability, and the limits of the post WWII treaty-based order.
It appears that Washington will reposition itself to a more unilateral, capability-driven, and strategically offensive-leaning posture.
At the SVB/Vencapital Boston Venture Finance Summit 2025, panelists and subject matter experts converged on a single conclusion: venture capital has entered a discipline-first phase.
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