When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

“A European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials...inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the US had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”

Dive into both the limitations and narrow windows of opportunity for cyber ops during war in our still-relevant article in the Journal of Cybersecurity:

doi.org/10.1093/cybs...

Those are valuable lessons identified for Western militaries in cyberspace!

Recently, @percepticon.bsky.social found similar limitations based on data from Ukraine and Gaza, using and expanding on our TECI-model for analysis of cyber ops.

It's worth a read: link.springer.com/article/10.1....

Still, cyber operations offer:

1) strategic utility through a persistent barrage against critical infrastructure, and

2) operational and tactical utility in a war's beginning when it's easier to integrate cyber and non-cyber operations.

The limited utility of cyber ops partly stems from:

1) difficulties integrating cyber ops into conventional operations due to differences in operational tempi.

2) high costs and one-shot nature of sophisticated payloads that are more likely to cause impactful effects

Latvians recently interviewed Major General Jette Albinus, cmdr of Multinational Division North stationed here.

Highlight of the interview: "I've been asked if NATO's gonna be able to invoke Article 5. I don't care. If Latvia is attacked, I'll send all my forces, they can court-martial me later."

Nationalizing SpaceX would be the American version of Elon falling out of a window.

Counterpoint: US politicians and analysts will be shocked and disoriented when it turns out that the Europeans don't need America as much as Americans think.

It will culminate with complaints about how European militarisation supposedly threatens America.