I write across a few different registers \u2014 professional threat intelligence, geopolitical policy analysis, and independent commentary. Selected work below. Contributing analyst covering state-sponsored cyber operations and technology security policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cybercrimes, Human Trafficking, and Cryptocurrency in Southeast Asia\u2019s Special Economic Zones<\/strong> [2026] 2024: When China\u2019s Salt Typhoon Made Cyberspace Tidal Waves<\/strong> [2025] Europe\u2019s Digital World Was Built By Hackers. It Can Be Saved By Them.<\/strong> [2026] Surveillance and Resistance in the Global Network Society: Contesting Digital Infrastructures in Georgia, the United States, and the Netherlands<\/strong> [2026] Is The US Throwing Away Its Tech Dominance?<\/strong> [2025] Opening Pandora’s box in Automated Weapons Systems: The Growing Industry of Loitering Munitions <\/strong>[2021]
Disclaimer<\/strong>: Citation of my work does not constitute positional alignment<\/span>. The following does not<\/strong> include every citation or reference.
My work has been cited and referenced by several defense publications and institutions, including The U.S. Army Infantry journal<\/em> and the Australian Army Research Centre<\/em>.
My threat intelligence analysis is cited as a source by Halcyon<\/strong>\u2019s threat intelligence platform, and my expertise has been sought by Borderland Beat<\/em> for commentary on cyber threats.
Additional analyses by War on the Rocks<\/em> and CZ24.News<\/em> have cited my work, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNew Lines Institute<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Southeast Asia\u2019s special economic ones (SEZs) were designed to attract investment through deregulation and streamlined governance. Those same features have made them ideal substrate for the growth of transnational criminal networks.
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In 2024, experts at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) uncovered a highly sophisticated cyber espionage campaign that had infiltrated virtually all critical telecommunications infrastructure in the United States. The party behind these operations, Salt Typhoon, has been identified as a Chinese state-sponsored entity, and its cyber-offensive may be the most troubling and sophisticated of its kind to ever directly target the U.S.
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Europe has the foundations to defend a genuinely different model of digital life from the US or China. This article asks whether Europe’s institutions will defend this, or trade it away as global digital norms flatten.
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MA in International Relations and Security Studies, Webster University Leiden.
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Chips, Tariffs, and Temper Tantrums. By attempting to blindly protect US industry, and pushing the Project 2025 agenda, is the Trump administration just handing China its tech leadership mantle?
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Published in the aftermath of Azerbaijan’s attack on Armenia in the Fall of 2020, this piece discusses the proliferation of low-cost, automated loitering munitions systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n