By Alexandros Sainidis In boxing timing beats speed. If you catch the right moment, the glove can reach a fast-moving chin and inflict a knock-out blow. An alternative version of David and Goliath could be of speed and waiting. Waiting is viewed as a state rather than an action, though this is a simplification. It … Continue reading On Strategic Waiting
Revisiting the domain of losses: Trump’s case in foreign policy and beyond
How is Loss shaping Trump’s decisions?
The Enigma of 3: A Hypothesis on Divinity
By Mr. Maverick Arithmology oscillates between numerology and mathematics. It stands, in other words, at the intersection between science and pseudoscience. It’s a strange but fascinating field, attempting to explore the hidden meanings and symbolic significance attributed to some numbers, meanings that extend beyond their pure quantitative properties. Number three, for instance, is quite … Continue reading The Enigma of 3: A Hypothesis on Divinity
The Fast Terrorist Order
Just as food, not all offense is gourmet. Some terrorist attacks are ugly, effective fast food.
Cyberwarfare Black Ops: The largest cyber-attack that never happened
Stuxnet managed to successfully destroy roughly one-fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. But what if it had failed? Or what if Israel didn’t like the outcome and decided to strike the Iranian nuclear sites?
Survival through success: a remarkable case of ‘antifragility’
By Mr. Maverick 2025 has been a very choppy year so far. A chain of highly imponderable developments that have happened during the last years have all boiled down to this very day, where randomness has overshadowed every aspect of our lives and behavior. Events are not well-defined. The element of surprise is now officially … Continue reading Survival through success: a remarkable case of ‘antifragility’