When regimes collapse or survive a coup, intelligence agencies face purges, realignment, or ruin. This post examines how Egypt, Turkey, and Thailand rewired their intelligence structures to maintain control—offering stark lessons in power, paranoia, and statecraft.

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What began as convenience has evolved into covert capability. This deep dive explores how recommendation systems—once designed to ease cognitive load—have quietly matured into powerful intelligence actors. By collecting behavior trajectories and analyzing sentiment at scale, algorithms can now detect societal unrest, fuel disinformation, and even function as tools of modern espionage. The question isn’t just what these systems know—but how they’re being used, and by whom.

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The United States needs a dedicated Department of Cyber Infrastructure—a centralized executive-level body focused solely on safeguarding the nation’s digital backbone. Much like DHS was created post-9/11 to unify disparate agencies under a counterterrorism mandate, today’s cyber threats—from ransomware to foreign supply chain attacks—demand a coordinated federal response. Our current approach is fragmented and inadequate for the pace, scale, and complexity of cyber-physical convergence. This post argues for a reimagined structure that treats digital infrastructure as strategic infrastructure—vital, vulnerable, and in need of federal stewardship.

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