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"Compound Security, Unlocked" breaks down how global and local threats are connected, providing clear insights and practical ideas to tackle today’s complex security challenges and build a safer, more stable future.
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Crossing the Threshold (opens the original)
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Compound Security, Unlocked Enters Its Third Year — and This Is Essay No. 745Today, September 30, Compound Security, Unlocked crosses a threshold.Two years ago, inspired by and at the request of ‘others’, I opened this space with a proposition that was at once analytical, professional, civic, and deeply personal:We cannot secure what we do not understand. And we cannot adequately understand the world we now inhabit by continuing to divide it into categories that the world itself no longer respec
The System Is Moving Oil Again. It Is Not Moving Toward Peace. (opens the original)
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Tonight’s update corrects two tempting but misleading accounts of the Hormuz crisis. The first is that “the danger has passed” because oil exports are recovering. The second is that “systemic collapse remains imminent because the conflict continues.” Neither is quite right. The system has demonstrated more capacity to adapt than many expected, but it is adapting inside the danger zone—not moving out of it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
See the Age: Why 2014 Was the Hinge Year | THE CIVIC BRIEF — SEASON 2 (opens the original)
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What if the world we are struggling to understand today did not begin in 2020, 2022, or even 2016?What if the hinge was 2014?In the Season 2 premiere of The Civic Brief, Dr. Isaiah “Ike” Wilson III looks back at a year when seemingly separate developments began converging into something larger: Russia’s seizure of Crimea and war in Ukraine; the rise of ISIS and the return of large-scale geopolitical competition; accelerating technological disruption; growing strains on democratic institutions an
The Monday Update (opens the original)
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W.i.S.E. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WATCH™ | HORMUZ — 28 SEPTEMBER 2026The system has not broken. But it is working harder to keep from breaking. The Strait of Hormuz remains severely impaired; Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea alternative is only partially recovering; and the commercial workarounds carrying Gulf energy are consuming more of the very slack meant to make the system resilient. At the same time, oil is still moving, the East–West Pipeline is again operating at reduced capacity, and a diplomatic path
“When ‘Alabaster Court’ Lit Up Times Square” (opens the original)
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