LinkedIn · Social Writing
The Threat Model Has Changed
The threat model has changed. If we keep analyzing today’s terrorist networks with yesterday’s assumptions, much of that analysis belongs in the burn bag.
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From the Social Feed
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LinkedIn · Social Writing
Accuracy Matters When Reporting a Strike
Sarah Adams on acknowledging civilian casualties and examining the targets and reporting around Pakistan’s September 21 strikes.
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LinkedIn Article
Freedom For Sale
How the Taliban is exploiting imprisonment, poverty, and vulnerability to manufacture images of Afghan women supporting its rule.
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Analysis · Intelligence Tradecraft
The Intelligence Blind Spot Around Hamza bin Laden
A challenge to the assumptions surrounding Hamza bin Laden, the evidence used to support them, and the strategic risk of analytical lock-in.
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Analysis · Terrorist Campaigns
The Campaign That Didn’t End
What the July 7 London bombings reveal about operational campaigns, follow-on attacks, institutional memory, and the danger of treating terrorism as a single event.
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Need to Know · Before You Go
A Practical Safety Guide for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
A calm, usable guide to situational awareness, transportation, communications, meeting plans, and sound decisions during a major international event.
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Analysis · Domestic Extremism
The San Diego Mosque Attack and the Rise of Accelerationist Terrorism
A victim-first examination of accelerationist ideology, online radicalization, warning indicators, and the threat of violence designed to fracture communities.
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Analysis · Strategy & Deception
Negotiating With Terrorists Is Not Diplomacy. It Never Was.
A clear-eyed examination of bad faith, regime survival, deception, time as a weapon, and what realistic engagement with terrorist organizations and aligned regimes requires.
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