The Omission
The Omission analyzes global conflict and political actions through the lens of intelligence tradecraft, open-source data, and strategic history.
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We Were Never the Good Guys
Patrol starts in the morning, Afghanistan 2012. Image taken by author.
I’m not sure if I’ve said this before but my family has been in the military since before the United States was a handful of colonies. The idea of service has been a st...
History Rhymes Like a Motherfucker
The Roman Forum. The columns are still standing. Everything that held them up is rubble. Photo by Jebulon
The greatest weakness of an empire is in its confidence that it can’t fall. That over confidence is the whole problem. It’s what lets...
They Called It "Minor"
U.S. Air Force airmen load patients aboard an MC-130J during an aeromedical evacuation training exercise. The wounded are supposed to make the manifest. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Melany Bermudez.
Something just isn’t ad...
They're Afraid of You: Part 4 of 4
This is what they built the whole machine to find. A free people that won’t be scared quiet. No Kings march, Minneapolis, October 18, 2025. Credit: Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 4.0 (cropped) · creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
I told you at th...
They'll Take You First: Part 3 of 4
A public crime map from the Chicago Police Department. Every dot is an incident dropped on a grid. This is the tidy, visible face of a machine that does its real sorting somewhere you never get to see.
The machine I’ve shown you collects,...
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The Omission analyzes global conflict and political issues through intelligence tradecraft, open-source data, and strategic history informed by prior intelligence and military experience.
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