Contemporary
Contemporary Conflicts
Abundance and scarcity dynamics in 2020s warfare and coercion.
Framework article introducing the 2020s conflicts batch through the abundance/scarcity lens.
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9 articles tagged “contemporary”.
Conflict
Drone Warfare
The Ukraine–Russia war as the laboratory of abundant, disposable airpower.
FPV and loitering-munition drones have made airpower cheap, abundant, and disposable, reshaping battlefield economics.
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Geopolitics
Starlink in Ukraine
Private satellite internet as strategic wartime infrastructure.
Starlink in Ukraine illustrates how abundant private satellite connectivity can become strategic wartime infrastructure.
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Geopolitics
Semiconductor Sovereignty
Leading-edge chips as contested strategic resource.
Advanced chips have become the contested chokepoint of the 2020s, driving export controls, reshoring, and a new industrial politics of compute.
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Conflict
Information Warfare
When compute abundance becomes a weapon aimed at shared reality.
Cheap generative models and global reach have scaled influence operations, stressing the trust infrastructure abundance depends on.
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Geopolitics
Energy Weaponization (Post-2022)
Gas leverage, pipeline sabotage, and the accelerated European abundance response.
Post-2022 European energy politics — gas leverage, pipeline sabotage, accelerated renewables — as an abundance response to a scarcity shock.
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Conflict
Cybersecurity as Civil Defense
Ransomware on hospitals and utilities, and what abundance-era defense looks like.
Critical-infrastructure intrusions have turned cybersecurity into a civil-defense problem requiring public investment proportional to societal dependence.
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Geopolitics
Space as Contested Commons
ASAT tests, Kessler risk, and why LEO access is a shared infrastructure problem.
Orbital debris, ASAT tests, and LEO crowding make space a contested commons whose governance is load-bearing for the abundance agenda.
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Contemporary
Climate Conflict
Water stress, migration, and feedback loops stress-testing the international order.
Climate change as conflict force multiplier, and the abundance tools that partially shape the stress curve.
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