When the Network Goes Away
Military planners have a term for the communications environment they expect to fight in against a near-peer adversary: contested, degraded, and operationally limited — CDOL for short. The concept captures a reality that's been demonstrated repeatedly in recent conflicts and in every major exercise that's seriously gamed out high-end combat: a sophisticated...
The Decision That Shapes More Than Music
When parents start looking into violin lessons for their child, they're usually thinking about music. What they often discover, somewhere in the middle of the first year, is that they signed up for something larger. The violin does teach music — but it also teaches patience in a visceral, practical way that few other childhood activities match. It...
Orbit Is Not a Destination. It's a Starting Point.
There's a misconception embedded in how most people think about satellite launches. The rocket gets the satellite to orbit, and then the job is done. The satellite is up. Mission accomplished.
That's not how it works — not for the missions that matter most, and increasingly not for even the simplest commercial applications. Getting to...
Risk Doesn't Announce Itself
Every cargo shipment that moves across the ocean represents a concentration of value, a contractual obligation, and a set of assumptions about what will happen between the moment a container is sealed and the moment it's delivered. Most of the time, those assumptions hold. The vessel departs on schedule, transits without incident, arrives within the expected...
When a Single Unit Isn't Enough Anymore
There's a concept in military strategy called mass — the idea that concentrating force at a decisive point creates advantage that smaller, dispersed efforts can't match. For most of military history, achieving mass required lots of people, or very large and expensive platforms. Tanks. Aircraft carriers. Bombers. The cost of mass was enormous, and...
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