06
Apr
A Class System With Missiles
How insulated power turned war into a hierarchy of risk, burden, and disposable lives
5 min read
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06
Apr
How Internal Incentives Override Stated Values
The Lie Most Organizations Tell Themselves
6 min read
06
Apr
The Danger of Unexplained Military Firings
How lawful authority can quietly become a filter for political reliability inside the profession of arms
6 min read
06
Apr
The Architecture of American War
How a constitutional restraint became a procedural ritual, and how American power keeps force easy to start, hard to stop, and politically survivable for the people who authorize it
5 min read
06
Apr
Why the Powerful Never Pay for War
War survives because modern political systems separate decision from consequence. The people who authorize violence are buffered from its cost, while the people with the least power absorb the blood,
4 min read
06
Apr
When Civilian Control Becomes Partisan Screening
How lawful authority can quietly become a filter for political reliability inside the profession of arms
7 min read
05
Apr
The Threshold of Command
When lawful civilian control begins to drift into partisan filtering
5 min read
05
Apr
Lawful and Corrosive
Something can be constitutional in form and degrading in effect. The distinction between civilian control and partisan screening is not legal. It is institutional.
5 min read
04
Apr
Regressive Leadership and the Escalation Loop
Why 21st-century tools in the hands of 20th-century instincts may be one of the greatest threats humanity faces
7 min read
04
Apr
Our Leaders Have Failed Us
I put boots on the ground for a system I believed in. What I learned is that failed leadership may now be one of the greatest threats humanity faces.
6 min read