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I write about the arrangements forming around the AI frontier: who holds the capability, on what terms, where dependence sits, and what changes when those terms move.The essays began with the relationship between Washington and the frontier labs. They now range more widely, across states, firms, infrastructure, capital, and the institutions that turn technical capability into strategic and economic power. The recurring question is the same: what is actually owned, what is borrowed, what remains conditional, and who can change the terms.
I spent fifteen years at the U.S. Naval War College as a tenured professor of strategy and policy. I co-founded and co-directed the Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups and held the T.C. Sass Chair in Maritime Irregular Warfare. My earlier work examined how armed groups exploit the seams between institutions; that framework is taught at U.S. intelligence colleges. I am the author of four books and hold a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
The work now is to read the AI frontier with the same discipline: separate capability from infrastructure, ownership from control, and exposure from advantage. I undertake a small number of private engagements for institutions working through questions of AI strategy, investment, dependence, and state power.
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