Research
Sources, reading lists, and supporting material for films and essays.
Beyond the Tallinn Threshold: Referential Drift and the Legal Language of Cyber Conflict
This paper contends that the operational referent has shifted faster than the sign-system has been able to follow.
Military Innovation, Society and Geopolitical Transformation: A Synthesized Typology and Dual-Index Framework for Evaluating Technology Portfolios in Asymmetric Conflict
This study introduces a synthesized five-category innovation typology (disruptive, sustaining, basic research, moonshot, frugal) adapted from foundational commercial innovation management theory, and develops two quantitative evaluation formulas:
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 canonical case
COTS Under Stress
This paper argues that the established discipline of verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) already supplies the correct language for governing that reliance, but that its standard application stops short of the conditions under which defence systems actually operate.
"To understand the future, we must first understand the ideas that made the present possible."