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Understandable Insights: Information to Intelligence with Sue Gordon — 53 episodes
Ep. 47 Who Gets to Decide?
Ep. 46 Follow the Money, Follow the Choices
Ep. 45 Service, Loyalty, and the Questions That Matter
Ep. 44 Better Questions: Cyber
Ep. 43 Better Questions: AI
Ep. 42 From Sedona: What the Sedona Forum Reveals About the World
Ep. 41 Already Inside the Wire: Why the Most Dangerous Threats Don’t Look Like Attacks
Ep. 40 The Discretionary Trap: Why Washington Is Fighting Over the Smallest Slice
Ep. 39 Federalism in Action: Elections, Governors, and Energy
Ep. 38 The Great Rewiring: Small Signals, Shifting Systems
Ep. 37 AI, Missiles, and the Price of Power: Signals of a New Security Era
Ep. 36 When Intelligence and Policy Collide—The Cost of Public Friction and What It Signals
Ep. 35: Citizens Keep Exercising Their Power
Ep. 34 When the Rules Stop Working
Ep. 33 Independence Is Not Insulation
Ep. 32 The Framework Without The Foundation
Ep. 31 Fast isn’t Free: The Hidden Cost of Skipping Legitimacy
Ep. 30 Trust Can't Be Borrowed: When Authority is Misapplied, It Doesn’t Reassure
Ep. 29 Power Without Permission: Who Decides When Technology Governs Us All
Ep. 28 Power, Precedent, and Accountability: Why Power Must Explain
Ep. 27 Democracy Under Stress: Elections as Infrastructure, Conditional Acceptance, & Human Strength
Ep. 26 Default to Trust–Why It’s Necessary, Signs We’re in Trouble
Ep. 25: A Global Geopolitical Romp: Strategy, Scarcity, and a Question of Values
Ep. 24 Bonus Space: From Domain to Dependency
Ep. 24 The National Security Trump Card: Ukraine, Greenland, and Windmills
Ep. 23 Bonus: You Can't Surge Trust in a Crisis
Ep. 23 Ukraine, the NDAA, and Fusion Hype — and Why We Track Santa
Ep. 22 Transparency by Design: DOE’s Genesis Mission, H200 Exports, & Australia’s Under-16 Test
Ep. 21 Dominance Playbook: National Security Strategy, Undersea Competition, & Golden Dome Limits
Ep 20 Bonus: Retribution Politics: When Dissent Becomes Dangerous
Ep. 20 Trust and Consequences: Afghan Allies, Back-Channels, and Nursing Pros
Ep. 19 Substitution or Sovereignty? China’s Capital, Nuclear Loans, & State vs. Federal Power
Ep. 18 Leaky Systems: Agentic AI Hack, Dams and Drought, & States Stepping Up
Ep. 17 Steppe Signals: Kazakhstan’s Uranium, Europe’s First-Mover Standards, & AI Bubble Watch
Ep. 16 Critical Mass: Nuclear Testing, Power for the AI Era, and the Civic Moves That Matter
Ep. 15 Speed Is the Advantage: Army Acquisitions, the Asia Trip, & Argentina ROI
Ep. 14 Quantum Is Closing In, Data Everywhere, & Peace in Sight
Ep. 13 The War Department’s Misfire
Ep. 12 Shutdowns Aren’t a Light Switch: SIM Farms, Justice by Process, and Meeting Turkey’s Ur-Fascism
Ep. 11 Digital Assets 101: Stablecoins to Sovereign Wealth — with Hon. Shannon Corless
Ep. 10: Ghost Shark AI, Police-State Tech, and the Leadership Gap
Ep. 09 Congressional Oversight Limited, Caribbean Motives, & City Security
Ep. 08 Cyber to Cornfields: Community and Trust in the Heartland
Ep. 07 IC Integrity, Intel Equity & Ukraine’s Stolen Children
Ep. 06 Precision Influence, Precision Maps: Trump–Putin Theater, China’s AI Ops, & Texas Resistance
Ep. 05: Splashy Action, Long Term Effect
Ep. 04 Bonus: China’s Commercial Space Collision Course
Ep. 04 Threats abroad AND at home
Ep. 03 Bonus: China Fills the Soft Power Vacuum
Ep. 03 Algorithms and AI Action Plans
Ep. 02 How does change happen?
Ep. 01 It's ALL National Security
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