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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Starbucks' modern slavery risk management department.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'The more a regime depends on AI, the more it depends on the people who keep AI running'. archive.li/ztLYQ

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'Drawing on interviews with organisations across a range of regions and sectors, it explores emerging applications, benefits, challenges and governance approaches [with respect agentic AI]'. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

oecd.org

Agentic AI in organisations

This paper examines how agentic AI systems are being developed, deployed and governed in practice. Drawing on interviews with organisations across a range of regions and sectors, it explores emerging ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'[FBI, USCG] have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of [the VL Prosperity which FBi, USCG boarded in August] ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some interesting calls from the Indian External Affairs Minister in an appearance at the Asia Society, as always: youtu.be/1VHJuPDpZFs My summary below.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘In May 2024, Israel’s comptroller published a classified report that found major problems ... including inadequate security at foreign airports ... [Israel] wasn’t investing enough to secure foreign airlines that carried Israeli passengers.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘The petition was brought by 133 residents of the Chandavai area in Lamu County, who lay claim to ancestral rights to the land where the refinery will be built near Lamu port and a US military base on Manda Island.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'I was fighting for my life. At one point, I realised that if I didn’t get up … then passengers would lose their lives ... '... was seriously injured in Wednesday’s attack but managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers to enter and restrain the attacker ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'When you add the river networks, their daily flows, and tidal changes of up to 20 feet, it presents a unique geographic and topographic problem set that we simply haven’t had to face before.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘How are you going to regenerate and continue to develop accesses and effects to be able to deliver over the course of what will almost always be against a peer competitor, a longer-term sustained conflict?

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘Each of the services have begun developing their own versions of these expeditionary or tactical capabilities from the Army’s 11th Cyber Battalion — with approval to establish a second cyber battalion — to Air Force Cyber Enabled Air Superiority, ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘That placed the company in a wider network that included EU police agency Europol, judicial cooperation agency Eurojust and the European Anti-Fraud Office's digital forensics unit.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘The regiment’s new artillery-support section is in charge of identifying all firing positions, setting up decoys and prepositioning ammunition, in a move away from each gun section having its own small reconnaissance element …

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘Now, businesses across Russia are leasing air-defense systems from defense firms or building their own … ‘On Avito, a Russian site similar to Craigslist, companies are looking for guards who can patrol sites, watch the skies, spot drones and shoot them down.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘All of these [Chinese] studies point to a common theme: “smart armor” is viewed as less a stand-alone technology than a wider effort to make armored survivability more connected, more responsive and better integrated for a battlefield shaped by overhead attack.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some interesting points: - The Ukraine War has shown the importance of surging medical care to the front line itself, rather than relying on large, fixed medical facilities a fair way away from the front line when you _had_ air superiority (a la GWOT).

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Middle East crude oil exports are back at prewar levels as the region’s major crude producers ramp up supplies through alternative pipelines, ports and [STS transfers]': www.wsj.com/business/ene... Good stuff. War is a contest of infrastructural resilience.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'... Telstra, Optus and TPG will work together to decide when to activate it ... '... will not work if a network fails in large parts of regional Australia '... will be implemented in up to three different disaster areas at any one time.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Security Minister Dan Jarvis will chair a threat briefing with industry bodies representing CNI providers, while Armed Forces Minister Louise Sandher-Jones will chair a threat briefing with [DIB] industry bodies ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Agencies cited a variety of reasons for not having completed or maintained [IoT] inventories with required information, including technical and resource constraints and competing priorities.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'We reviewed the access 6 agencies' DOGE teams had to information systems and the controls the agencies used to ensure those systems were protected. Of these agencies: - 4 gave us information on system access and 2 didn't - 3 gave us information on controls and 3 didn't

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Defense markets are politically constructed procurement systems in which governments simultaneously act as customer, regulator, financier, and co-developer …

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Trucking expenses are at their highest level since ... Covid ... Diesel prices are up 77% in the past year.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘... DP World is shifting cargoes to road and rail networks linked to ports in the Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea and as far away as Turkey.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘… developing countries in Asia … are now more willing to pay up to limit damage to their economies. ‘Consumption cuts made in 2022 are largely still in place, suggesting gas prices would need to climb much higher to knock remaining demand …

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘... wider shift in the energy transition conversation — from lofty pledges of eye-watering green energy capacity to a less glamorous stage of wrestling with the raw mechanics of how a low-carbon energy system will work.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘For Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, the mining concessions are part of projects designed to curry favour with Beijing, which include ports on its Pacific and Atlantic coasts and a major airport redevelopment.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Mr Seong said Ukraine had repeatedly discussed the prisoners' transfer with Seoul through various channels and had requested secrecy ... 'He said South Korea agreed to keep the transfer confidential given security, diplomatic and humanitarian concerns ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'[India] holds the world’s third-largest rare-earth reserves.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Oman’s government saw Burke’s visit as a sign the U.S. was serious ... Within a week, Muscat banned all Mahan flights ... followed up Wednesday by blocking all Iran airlines.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Driving home from a party in the early hours, a local farmer came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country road.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'So, we have designed through digital twin testing with the support of AI, just thousands upon thousands upon thousands of options for the [Ghost Bat] to take. 'And it will choose one of those options, but we know exactly how that option plays out.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Following the atrocities committed by the [Nazi SS] … constitutional reforms stripped Germany's intelligence agencies of centralised power. ‘... contemporary spy network fractured, legally barred from making arrests or even questioning suspected foreign operatives.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'[USMC] already have additive manufacturing capabilities in our marine aviation logistics squadrons and in the MLG. What we lack is the design rights in some cases ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What caught my eye in this chat was the flagging of the need to get vendors involved in @USSpaceForce exercises, as flagged in this discussion. youtu.be/6dvNILG57CQ

youtu.be

Roles and Limits of Commercial Space in National Security | 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference

YouTube video by Air & Space Forces Association

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some fascinating commentary from @VivianBala : - 3 core issues for countries/systems to balance: geostrategic competition 'which sometimes is viewed as a zero-sum game' + another industrial revolution + demographic decline.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bits from a great discussion on the now and tomorrow of US land power: - CT is an inescapable part of US land power because many US partners need US weapons and assistance to fight terrorism, which feeds into how the US can't never really pivot away from CENTCOM/West Asia.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Key points from one of the best AfPak experts in the business, @tilakdevasher1 (doyen of Indian foreign intelligence and strategic policy), in conversation with @SandeepUnnithan: 🧵

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some key points by the NASA Administrator: - The need for NASA to move at pace because the Russians and Chinese are working together to get to the South Pole of the moon and take over that strategic bit of territory.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Question for Pak watchers: Are Pak controls on Western journos operating in Balochistan and KP as strict as Israeli or Iranian ones? Is that why we never see the same detailed coverage of the Baloch and TTP insurgencies like we do of what’s happening in, eg, Gaza?

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'... Chinese interest in keeping Pakistan strong enough ..., so that India never has its hands entirely free. Selling arms to China's maritime rivals does nothing to alter that interest, and pretending otherwise misreads the relationship between Beijing and Rawalpindi.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Read together, they begin to resemble the plumbing of another trade-finance network.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'The [Medicare Statistics Reporting Service] portal had required no login for over a decade, according to the Wayback Machine. Although a March 2025 upgrade added a login page, it also enabled guest access — which signs any visitor in automatically without credentials ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Unions say the new Dayforce system that was rolled out in July has consistently paid workers late or failed to pay penalties and overtime, leading to financial distress among members.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The unusual flurry of sales is equivalent to about one day of total global demand, and would represent a more-than-doubling of recent Saudi-to-Asia flows through Hormuz.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Pipelines and overland trucking are exponentially more expensive than ocean freight. Pumping oil upward through thousands of kilometres of mountainous terrain from Gwadar to Xinjiang ... destroying the commercial viability of the route.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'[PRC has] recently added several technologies to the export control list ... Starting June 30, 2026, China’s General Administration of Customs imposed stricter restrictions on the export of “industrial mother machines” ...

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Federal intelligence agencies are actively monitoring nearly 20 commercial vessels globally following a sophisticated cyberattack on a natural gas tanker loaded at a Louisiana export terminal.

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Dr Ravi Nayyar @ravirockks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'In recent years, programs like the F-35 have modernised that thinking about sovereignty away from just possession of a physical platform and towards continued access to software.

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