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The Cauldron Never Empties: Synthetic Narratives that Create Strategic Opportunity

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Bonus Reads, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesartificial intelligence, attribution, cognitive warfare, counterfeit media, credibility, decision-making, democratic institutions, Disinformation, fabricated personas, foreign information manipulation and interference, information manipulation, misinformation, narrative reframing, propaganda, Russian information operations, societal resilience, strategic ambiguity, synthetic narratives, Ukraine, verification

The Cauldron Never Empties: Synthetic Narratives that Create Strategic Opportunity

Greg Sharpe0 Comments

Published: October 19, 2026 The most dangerous Russian information operation may not begin with a lie. It may begin with something true. A legitimate news report. An authentic photograph. A…

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Hacking the Apocalypse: How Cyberattacks Could Trigger Nuclear Escalation

AI & Deterrence, Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesartificial intelligence, attribution, command and control, critical infrastructure, critical vulnerabilities, cyber deterrence, Cyberattacks, Cyberspace, deconfliction mechanisms, democratic regimes, Deterrence, escalation, gray zone, irregular warfare, non-state actors, nuclear doctrine, nuclear escalation, nuclear threshold, offensive cyber capabilities, proportionality, second-strike capability, strategic cyberattacks, strategic stability, strategic threats, vital infrastructure

Hacking the Apocalypse: How Cyberattacks Could Trigger Nuclear Escalation

Gilles A. Paché0 Comments

Many of the world’s strategists still share the same conviction: as Kathryn Bigelow’s film A House of Dynamite (2025) dramatizes, nuclear escalation can only originate from a missile of unknown…

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