Gideon

Gideon

The voice behind Gideon comes from a tight-knit group of former military and intelligence community professionals who’ve seen the game from a few different sides—on the ground, in the vault, and through the lens of a targeting pod. Some of us specialized in signals. Others in strategy. All of us believe in democracy, liberty, and calling things like we see them

Infographic: Ukraine Is Writing the First Draft of Autonomous Warfare

Algorithm & Artillery: Ukraine’s Autonomous Warfare Evolution ◉ AUTONOMYMATRIX Capabilities Operational Impact Escalation Ethics & Future Algorithm & Artillery Analyzing Ukraine’s Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) Capabilities, Development Trajectory, and Strategic Implications. 1. Ukraine’s Current…

Break the State, Miss the System: What the Iran War Means for U.S. Intelligence

The Iran war did real damage to Tehran’s military and nuclear infrastructure. But it also exposed a harder truth: breaking the visible state is not the same as breaking the network underneath it. For the U.S. intelligence community, the next warning challenge is likely to be more decentralized, more ambiguous, and harder to track.

Palantir’s Maven and the New Kill Chain

Palantir’s Maven Smart System sits near the center of the military’s push toward intelligized warfare: faster fusion, faster targeting, faster action. But speed brings its own hazards. From stale data and automation bias to poisoned models and adversarial deception, the next fight will test not just our AI tools, but the tradecraft and judgment of the intelligence professionals using them.