Energy Advantage: The Cornerstone of 21st Century Security & Prosperity Panel hosted by Dr. Tim Welter, Potomac Institute Sr. Fellow General Al Gray, USMC 4-star general, often called The Father of SIGINT, and Potomac Institute BOD. (And one of the most humble, hilarious and consequential warfighters I have the honor to know). Mr. Frank Fannon, Former Assistant Secretary of State (Energy Resources), Managing Director at Fannon Global Advisors, Non-Resident Senior Advisor at CSIS, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council

“Oh good. Another blog about cybersecurity,” said No One Ever. — Click! Fight! Win! Isn’t a blog about cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is boring. Cyberpower and the role it plays in geopolitical competition and future war is fascinating. There are very few people writing from this perspective, mostly because “technologist” and “military theory strategist” are two circles in the Venn Diagram of Life…

The very complicated concept of strategic deterrence is frequently (and wrongly) reduced down to its most base elements: Imposing costs and establishing a credible threat of retaliation. While a deterrence strategy certainly contains those elements, deterrence isn’t achieved by simply establishing red lines or issuing sanctions. …

HOW TO BYPASS EVERY BIG-NAME ENDPOINT DETECTION PRODUCT & WHY THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS — Walk the floors of any cybersecurity conference and you’ll see upward of 500 booths selling products to make you and your company more secure. So why aren’t we more secure? Because many of them don’t work. Or they don’t work in the way marketing collateral says they do. The truth…

July 6, 2017

The Future of VR Broadcasting Looks A Lot Like the Past — Have you ever thought about who decides what shows get on TV? I often wonder which TV programming execs greenlit Big Bang Theory, The Bachelor or any of the other insipid, cookie-cutter primetime programs that add exactly nothing to the craft of storytelling, do nothing to enrich viewers’ lives, nor…

A Bingo Card and Brief Refresher on Logical Fallacies. — Rhetoric, or persuasive speech, is formulaic. It requires the use of arguments to prove a point. The cornerstone for building a sound and solid argument actually begins by understanding the weak ones, specifically logical fallacies. These are the tricky arguments that sound right, but in fact, are not sound. “If…