Why #warwidgets don’t live here any more
“Because it's actually not new tech we need to spend our money on right now.
It's new security doctrines ... new philosophies and strategies ... and new tactics the enemy will NEVER get to anticipate. At least for as long as we can humanly resist the temptation to let the cats out of the bag, before time it is to do so.”
Mil Williams, 3rd June 2025, Chester UK
Introduction
Yesterday, Jaanika Merilo posted this image set:
It shows the value of using human intuition to create totally unexpected narratives which can then be implemented using newly tweaked and often utterly repurposed existent technologies. Never mind the brand new stuff such intuition enables.
The post itself is on LinkedIn here:
I first clearly posted on this capability of Ukrainian thinking in military and security contexts (I'm sure also present in other areas of Ukrainian life) here, probably more than a year ago now:
https://gb2earth.com/war/five | how Ukrainian intuition reshaped the doctrine of anti-tank weaponry
Examples of what I mean
The wider deck itself talks of the value of being able to get as dirty in specifically intuitive ways with military IT and weapon systems as war has habitually shown us can be done with machines and hand-weapons.
And not just guns, either: I recall being told some months ago the anecdote of how during World War 2 the British were able to knock out tanks, just a single grenade again, and just as per Ukraine these days in the example above, by in this case wrapping the grenade in question in a piece of cloth soaked in axle-grease, so on being thrown it would cling to one tank-track only, and on exploding make the tank turn in furious circles which then facilitated further offensive actions.
Of course, what Jaanika so wisely sums up with just four images is at a completely different level.
With longitudinally planned and intuitively arrived-at storytelling by the Ukrainians choosing to reflect carefully and use their brains to more than facilitating “wham-bam, thank-you-mam” doctrines …
And only then a tech bespoking, integrated fascinatingly with real-world objects such as trucks and wooden boxes, showing a considerable awareness by Ukraine of the potential for connecting war's current technologies with a newly devised interfacing on battlefields wherever these may be found, we suddenly see that the old model of selling massive war widgets — weapons that never vary during a lifetime of production and delivery — and which those on the battlefield can also never amend in real-time, is beginning to creak dangerously as a total solution.
https://niokvinnor.com/phd/summary
It works well, still, when the enemy does the same: it's falling into lots of increasingly vulnerable pieces, meantime, when the innovation, and even the invention, of one of the parties becomes the norm for that party only.
Definition of a #warwidget: weapons that never vary during a lifetime of production and delivery
To the thesis of this post
I've been looking for a while to work with people not only keen to deliver on, but also competent and clever enough, in respect of not only finishing off #putin et al but also the concept itself that #russia, in its various and multiple historical rebrandings, has manifested and shown itself to embrace.
My goal in all this is not only #NoMorePutin, but — just as firmly — #NoMoreRussia or analogous (however rebranded over the years), or related.
Because totalitarians that fight on multiple fronts — in my personal historical case, what we might term a cognitive warfare, and in all situations and organisations these days not only the cognitive but also hybrid, cyber, and space already, alongside the much more traditional battlefields — need to be fought and vanquished on these very same multiple fronts.
The way forward
The above examples surely show the way forwards: a human intuition enhanced and expanded to the maximum by a newly enabling IT and tech architecture …
https://secrecyplus.com/about | information on what #secrecypluscom is about
https://secrecyplus.com/video | why #secrecypluscom has been scoped: what real-world problem it addresses
https://secrecyplus.com/release | the planned #releaseroadmap for #secrecypluscom’s workstreams 1 and 2
With this, we see we will learn much better to devise and develop brand-new stories to tell about wartime and what may be happening at any point in time, which the best IT brains can then scope, code and bring to real-world life in ways that become purposeful to that world, as well as timely.
And timely and purposeful in ways that avoid wilful self-interest, delivering on corporate bottom-lines which serve only to enable the enshittification of both IT and geopolitics:
https://gb2earth.com/blog/meta
To finish, how not to proceed …
Finally, contrast what Jaanika highlighted in her succinct post yesterday — Ukrainian firepower first and foremost being their very human brains and astonishing capacity for being patient in what most of us would consider the extreme — with the photo-opportunism exhibited by the current UK government and political class, when it announces so foolishly that British technologists and hackers will be tasked to take down Putin's own.
How stupid is that. No ambush possible. No longitudinal stealth. Just attempting to protect political backs by sound-biting UK national security into utility’s unnecessary absence.
If my homeland ever seriously wanted to work with people like me on secrecyplus.com, and its related workstreams and overarching project to hand, you have to stop believing that public announcements of what you’re going to do NEVER substitute real, heartfelt learning from the process of apologising for what you were unable to do properly all these years.
And after delivering on a real contrition, start once again, if you can at all, the World War 2 Bletchley Park mentality: you do what you do because it's right, not because anyone will ever find out. Not because glory is something you should want to bask in.
Because it's actually not new tech we need to spend our money on right now.
It's new security doctrines ... new philosophies and strategies ... and new tactics the enemy will NEVER get to anticipate. At least for as long as we can humanly resist the temptation to let the cats out of the bag, before time it is to do so.
“This serves, in part, to make it possible to imagine how ALL of us could eventually become as longitudinally intuitive as the Ukrainian Armed Forces have shown themselves to be since this event came to my notice:
https://gb2earth.com/war/five | intuitively new anti-tank strategies and tactics, both, from more than a year ago by now
Yep: that's the goal ... make it possible for us all to fight war in multiple domains as effectively as, clearly, Ukrainian people breathe it.
Wouldn't that be cool? More of us fighting totalitarianism the way only Ukraine currently knows how to ... something to witness for sure.”
