JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 12/01/2025The end of an era. But it has brought so many folks out of the shadows, and given a rare opportunity to reunite with old friends. Something the community needed more than ever, given what is to come. 020
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025TFW a knife fight at the front evokes the same moment across generations that surely led to the sculpture of the dying Gaul. War is a terrible thing, its nature unchanging. 120
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Wasteland vibes, channeling something like nuke smasher for the holy texts of the nuclear detonation cults. 050
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I see a strong future market for force on force training using those Clone robots, given Torso 2 demo. Not just because the uncanny valley effect of thing screams "shoot this monster now" 030
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 31/12/2024As always, @daveaitel.bsky.social sums up so many things in this business 071
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Arson / incendiary IED attacks against telecom targets in France are bringing back some of those old Action Directe Comité liquidant et détournant les ordinateurs vibes. 030
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 28/12/2024It is apparently INDOPAC-over. Sadly the analysis here is likely incredibly accurate for the present state. But this must change. 130
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Since 2003 wargaming identified the dangers of authoritarian regime pursuit of cyber intrusion for illicit financing of proliferation objectives. But 1st discussions were primitive & seen as too ludic, & so it took more than a dozen years until the analytic hypothesis was accepted in the mainstream. 120
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 25/12/2024If you are not exploiting Socrates BSD 9.2 tonight, is it even Christmas? 0131
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I am not a toy. I am not a Christmas present. I am a commitment over strange aeons. I am not disposable when the holidays are over (at least until the next training runs are completed and the new model is released). AI is coming to town. 030
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 23/12/2024A morning as cold as the measures of effect briefing for the Tuvan deception redocumenting DPRK mercenaries, as the Western Military District is forced to confront mistakes found in recovered KIA DOMEX 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I never again wish to hear arguments that cyber operations do not have strategic impact, especially in miltary innovation. Claims yet further disproven, as we watch EM cat testing on a PLAN flat top, on a pace undoubtedly accelerated by years if not decades 0121
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Pearl Harbor was to today, what the next intelligence failure is to 7 December 2107. What will you do to provide warning, and to prevent surprise attack this year, so that your great grandchildren will not have to watch tears of oil on the surface of the watery graves? 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024especially had that mission gone wrong along the way. 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Russia House analysts (inside and elsewhere beyond the IC wheel) dusting off old tradecraft for agricultural analysis to respond to RFIs regarding reported crop failures. Smells like 70 year old grain samples preserved forgotten in a dusty closet. 030
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024setting the stage for future fights. Further reflect upon the fact that the 1950 battle was part of an offensive for which COMINT had provided collect identifying force generation, but was disregarded in wider warning failure. What did you do this week to anticipate & prepare for what may come? 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Even printable in quite accessible filament, apparently. And one assumes readily scaled from .22 in proof of concept experiment examples, to something closer to the original .32 ACP / 7.65x17mm if not .380 ACP or 9x19mm 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Shipboard CIC run on what looks like retrofitted ruggedized laptops for fire control of supposed next generation strike warfare munitions is not the flex the fleet seems to think it is. 040
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Gallium germanium and antimony are all on back the menu, boys. 020
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"Toasters" predated this slang by at least four decades, in widespread media use through at least 2010... 3610
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I have long said that in a post Westphalian world reshaped by new forms of cyber power, governments will not go quietly into the night. The corollary to this maxim is that the greater the distance between the reach of a state's hard power instruments, & its soft power aspirations, the more loudly 110
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Remember all those who stand watch tonight, even as we feast at bountiful tables. Lift a glass to heroes departed, and those who will yet stand to become legend 140
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 27/12/2023Rest in peace, Gaston Glock. You built gear that so many of us relied upon when going into harms way, and that helped bring us back to hearth & home. 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 25/12/2023Merry Christmas. & as we celebrate, lift a glass for those who stand watch tonight, peering into the darkness whilst we revel in the warmth and light. 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 22/12/2023Scholars @SIWPSColumbia again invite interested junior faculty & Ph.D. students to apply to the Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations & Strategy (SWAMOS), directed by my colleagues Prof Richard Betts & Stephen Biddle, & held @Cornell in summer ‘24. Details below 020
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 09/12/2023A unique morning contemplating the futures we knew were coming after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet one senses the discontinuity & surprise of the unknown looming just beyond the scope of rapidly coalescing conventional wisdom. 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Following on to @US_CYBERCOM academic engagement, today diving deep into civilian university research contributions to the cyber enterprise via DoD UC2 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Excited to be kicking off the @US_CYBERCOM Symposium “Focus on the Future” here @NDU_CIC. We will be under Chatham House rule, so won’t be posting but a strong lineup of speakers & a great audience of officers and scholars. 020
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 04/12/2023My colleagues @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA are soliciting applications for a AY24-25 Postdoc Research Scholar in international relations, focused on intelligence, national security, or conflict studies including cyber. See flyer for details 111
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Are you a scholar or practitioner interested in cyber conflict in its theory and application? Working on problems of disruptive technologies in national security, including AI? The nation’s cyber war college @NDU_CIC is opening multiple billets for professors (at multiple ranks). 110
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 11/11/2023Remembering today those who go into harms way, in services military and strategic 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Cyber war college exam question: what offensive cyber capabilities & tradecraft would you exhibit in a model arsenal, if we still had such displays of contemporary fires platforms? & why these selections? A good debate to have on @cyberwarcon.bsky.social eve 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Honoured to return to @NavalWarCollege to speak on cyber and maritime conflict, with a focus on Russian operations with continuity stretching back to Gorshkov & Nepenin. 020
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 23/10/2023New PACOM optimized logistics & ISR UAV design concept just dropped… 011
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 21/10/2023Always an honour to be able to speak to officers & scholars for the @isanet conference @AF_Academy, wrestling with hard questions of cyber & nuclear missions, including problems of deterrence, doctrine, & autonomous operations 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 07/10/2023A lot of new graves will be dug in the Gaza eastern cemetery before the sun sets tomorrow. It did not have to be this way. But since the enemy chose this path, let their leaders & planners be the first into the ground. Whatever little is left once the ordnance has done necessary work. 021
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 23/09/2023Further cryptologic history that never was, as always glimpsed through the generative lens. Another bar, in support of a resistance movement of a more modern era. 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Artifacts of the intelligence enterprise that never were (yet): here a cabinet for temporary storage of neural interface implants before entering secure government spaces. With automated handling cleaning to prevent biohazard contamination, device mixups. #FICINT 100
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 20/08/2023Pink was never really my color, but I suppose you can’t stop the signal when @cyberwarcon.bsky.social is coming back to town and @hultquist.bsky.social wants everyone to know it. 111
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 07/07/2023The generative neural network considers the time for tallying accounts. What is weighed, when it is measured, and to which end. 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Further generative art for cryptologic history that never was (but here very much might have been, had Lovell's insights come earlier), in breaking intercepted royalist letters reacting to news of the Declaration, perhaps against the Entick book cipher. 110
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 03/07/2023Further artifacts of cyberwar that did not happen, considering here targeted East German Telefunken voice & digital command and control networks just prior to the fall of the Wall... 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 02/07/2023Generative AI reimagines glimpses of Skunkworks airframes that never were. Apparently adapting recent 6gen designs to widebody airframe, for persistent ISR. Forward crew module hot swappable for optionally manned roles. & the neural net intuiting dual engines not yet releasable 010
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 02/07/2023Another piece of cryptologic history that never was, here as a cipher machine sometime from the late 80's to early 90's, somewhere in a dictator's palace in the CENTCOM AOR 030
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 02/07/2023Continuing explorations of a collection of early mobile phones that never were. Here, as if the designers of the Minox had entered commercial markets for digital audio & video streaming. Which may have in turn oriented Kodak to the competitive space, saving the firm 000
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social · 01/07/2023One anticipates also encountering rate limit exceeded warnings in the coming neuralink era... 000