About the author
E. Sotero
Writes on political economy, institutions, technology and the strategic systems beneath public life.
Essays by E. Sotero
The Changing Character of War
The second half of Northern Dipper vs the North Star. The arithmetic of force projection has changed; this is what it is doing to the character of war: systems over platforms, endurance over decisive battle, industry over inventory.
The New Arithmetic of Force Projection
Part I explains one technology where the change is undeniable: satellite navigation, the quiet layer modern war runs on.
The Next Trade Order
Infrastructure, influence and a more contested global economy.
Energy Realism
Every digital ambition eventually meets the physical grid.
The Return of Industrial Power
Why the capacity to make things still shapes the balance of power.
Northern Dipper vs the North Star
GPS, BeiDou and the infrastructure of position.
Institutions Outlast Leaders
The rules and habits that survive their makers.
The Compute Bottleneck
Chips, energy and the limits of an apparently weightless economy.
The Geography of Dependence
Who controls the routes that everyone needs?
The Machines Beneath the Machine
The physical infrastructure behind digital power.
What Beauty Still Demands of Us
What we preserve—and what we let disappear.
5th & Inches: American Football As A Study of the American Ethos
Ritual, violence, hierarchy and hope—and what the game reveals about the society that plays it.