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By Bjorn Beam

Ukraine Built a Public Library Out of Russia's Secret Weapons
What once took a defection and a covert purchase now takes an application. Inside Ukraine's TrophyLab and the new economics of defense.

Jun 21•Bjorn Beam

How the Iran War Ends: The Five Locks and Who Holds Each Key
Mar 11•Bjorn Beam

The Underpants War: How America Went to War With a Question Mark for a Strategy
May 13•Bjorn Beam

Every Day Is Cybersecurity Day
Apr 27•Bjorn Beam

Europe's Sovereignty Paradox: When Your AI Champion Serves the Kremlin
Europe's AI sovereignty champion is its weakest link against Russian disinformation. A new benchmark just proved it, and the timing could not be worse.
Jun 19•Bjorn Beam

When the Flower Bouquet Knows More Than the Database
Carlos Alberto Suástegui Villanueva had four police records, three prior arrests, two prison terms, and an open murder investigation.
Jun 18•Bjorn Beam

The Unconscious Combatant
You are already a combatant. You just do not know it yet. How algorithms, anger, and accident replaced the state as the engine of modern warfare.
Jun 13•Bjorn Beam

Washington's Kill Switch. And the Talent War It Just Triggered.
The kill switch works. What Washington forgot is that the engineers who built what it's protecting weren't all born here.
Jun 13•Bjorn Beam

The Allied Collection Paradox
Why Israel Is Spying on Washington This Hard, Right Now
Jun 7•Bjorn Beam

India Has 40 Percent Graduate Unemployment and 22 Million Cockroach Party Followers. These Are the Same Story.
Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1964 that the medium is the message, meaning the form of a communication medium shapes society far more profoundly than any…
May 30•Bjorn Beam

The Scoreboard America Is Reading Is Wrong
Beijing is winning the AI race that matters. The contest is measured in factories, phones, and the geopolitical futures of the Global South, not on…
May 24•Bjorn Beam