Weapons do not fight by themselves. When orders are crippled by betrayal and negligence, and doors are opened from within, even the strongest defenses fall without a single missile being fired. Metal is deaf, and gunpowder has no will of its own; a weapon in the hands of a traitor is nothing but wreckage, and in the hands of the careless, a heavy burden. Fortresses do not fall because of the hardness of cannons, but because of the fragility of conviction; and when betrayal seeps into centers of decision-making, rifles are emptied of their bullets before they are ever fired. When those responsible fall asleep (or betray) the weapon itself collapses, unconscious.

I am of the strong opinion that NATO standards and norms around helmets and body armor should reflect the weapons that define modern warfare - airburst munitions, drone attacks, etc. Optimizing for low-velocity 7.62 rifle threats made sense once upon a time, but no longer.

Great talk by @JohnLaTwC on ways you can turn security data into graphs: youtube.com/watch?v=cXhX3sNh…. Especially the vector part is great: so many tools have built in support for embeddings (e.g. BigQuery ML.GENERATE_EMBEDDING and VECTOR_SEARCH), defenders should be using them more!