Lions led by donkeys, or lyin' asses?
07.03.2026 04:25
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Lions led by donkeys, or lyin' asses?
"A professional military will be better at winning wars of necessity, which is why it is important to have one if you can afford it. But the same professional forces can also be employed in stupid wars of choice."
Really, really worth a read
Thank you Jon!
Barriers to connectivity make cyber operations challenging. Not impossible. But less easy.
“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced,” Madison wrote,...the aggrandized power and honors the executive enjoys in wartime means “the temptation would be too great for any one man.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Good cyber, bad war
A few thoughts on a distrubing pattern emerging across Venezuela and Iran: dolos.substack.com/p/the-perils...
"If you play Russian roulette enough times, eventually things turn out like the Deer Hunter."
Brilliant analysis of Trump's profoundly deranged international bellicosity by my colleague Jon Lindsay
dolos.substack.com/p/the-perils...
It was fantastic to join SSP to chat about my new book, which has a traceable lineage through my previous book, that began as an MIT dissertation. I am biased as an alum, obviously, but there's nothing like SSP, and the next generation of students is as fantastic as ever.
Not sure if Age of Deception is the book for you? Check out Max van der Horst's review in Binding Hook!
bindinghook.com/rethinking-c...
Moltbook is what happens when AI feeds on the spoor of humanity and starts cannibalizing its own excrement.
dolos.substack.com/p/benthic-ca...
Ever wonder whether there are any cyber lessons to be learned from the one and only mention of writing in Homeric epic? Wonder no further!
dolos.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
FREE BEER!!! 🍺🍻
Ok, free book. It's called "Age of Deception" after all.
Check out my new open access book on all things cyber and international relations!
Cornell University Press: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Kindle and Audible: www.amazon.com/Age-Deceptio...
The @cornellupress.bsky.social has published Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft by @jonrlindsay.bsky.social on Amazon Kindle. Congratulations!
www.amazon.com.au/Age-Deceptio...
“My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Mr. Trump said during a lengthy conversation with the Times reporters.
L'état, c'est moi
Read "AGI Eschatology and Security Scatology" by @jonrlindsay.bsky.social: perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...
‘Age of Deception offers a disciplined and persuasive alternative to dominant ways of thinking about cyber power,’ writes Max van der Horst in his review of @jonrlindsay.bsky.social's recent book: bindinghook.com/rethinking-c...
I can say with 99.99% confidence that the actual trajectory is somewhere in this range. There is a small chance that it could be even better or worse.
Do ya feel lucky, punk?
The script writers are way too on the nose with the symbolism this season. We really need to cancel the show.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
No it actually was not.
Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos.
Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
The discourse around AGI has become eschatology—a religious tale of the end times.
But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth.
dolos.substack.com/p/agieschato...
AGI stands for Arrogance, Grift, and Ignorance, and many other things besides.
dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...
This is a misleading headline. Ai bio warfare is not right around the corner. There is still a long and complicated path from r&d -- where this story focuses on only one part -- to weaponization and operational capacity let alone strategic intent
Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !
(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Interested in military automation? You should definitely read the new book by Jackie Schneider and Julia Macdonald!
I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...
Trump is not a Sparks fan?
This is my favorite LLM output to date:
Based on Haugeland's definition, the correct and most precise answer is **yes, this instance of Gemini does not "give a damn" about the answers.**
There is an ancient curse in Security Studies: "May your research be relevant."
And with that I am happy to annouce the arrival of Age of Deception!
You can find a paperback from any fine bookmonger or get the open access eBook from Cornell:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Here are few thoughts on why _Age of Deception_ has the cover that it does. Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social
dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me
Age of Deception now has a cover!
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...
Coming this fall.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
