Mike Frantzen

AI in Warfare Part 4: ADM Nelson Beats the Robots
Give the Franco-Spanish fleet crews that cannot break and they still lose five times out of six. Courage was never Trafalgar’s missing variable.
 • Mike Frantzen
AI in Warfare Part 3: Out-Fought, Not Out-Frightened
373 years of battle data versus the most repeated idea in pop military history.
 • Mike Frantzen
AI in Warfare Part 2: 91.7% of the Army Was Still Standing When It Ran
Bull Run, Iwo Jima, Pickett’s Charge, and Trafalgar in a validated combat simulator, run with the characteristics of AI weaponry.
 • Mike Frantzen
AI in Warfare Part 1: Beyond the Breaking Point
Historical battles, AI weapons, and the measured value of forces that do not break.
 • Mike Frantzen
The Secret the Government Keeps From Itself
An intelligence assessment of the US classification system, by the rules the intelligence community itself uses
 • Mike Frantzen
Chinese Bribeflation
Exactly how much does it cost to buy a bureau chief?
 • Mike Frantzen
China Economic A2AD Part 8: So, Is it Working?
China’s economic-warfare machine, graded objective by objective. There is one causal win. It is not the one Washington argues about.
 • Mike Frantzen
China Economic A2AD Part 7: Never Verify Against a Sensor the Adversary Owns
A field taxonomy of Chinese statistical opacity, with measured error bars on the workaround.
 • Mike Frantzen
China Economic A2AD Part 6: The Target List Is Wrong
Fifteen candidate levers against China, scored on four tests, and why the biggest numbers fail.
 • Mike Frantzen
China Economic A2AD Part 5: Weapons Depreciates When Fired
China’s export-control scorecard, from the 2010 Japan embargo to the fall 2026 snap-back clocks.
 • Mike Frantzen
China Economic A2AD Part 4: The Deadliest Economic Instruments Are Free
China’s decisive economic weapons never show up in a budget line
 • Mike Frantzen
China Economic A2AD Part 3: It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
Subsidies Don’t Buy Excellence. They Buy Refusal to Die.
 • Mike Frantzen
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