Note: Written in response to Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 16, 2026. Something unusual is happening in the Russian military's information environment. The bloggers and commentators who built their audiences by cheerleading the invasion — men whose professional identity is bound to Russian military success — are posting corrections. Gerasimov's headquarters claims a town has … Continue reading The Reports Were Always Going to Be Beautiful
Commitment Systems and the Architecture of Drift
Any arrangement of stabilized commitments operating in an environment that changes faster than the commitments do will eventually face a structural problem: how to acknowledge that operational practice has drifted from the commitments without dissolving the authority that grounds the commitments. This problem appears wherever the conditions hold, which is more places than is usually … Continue reading Commitment Systems and the Architecture of Drift
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