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The Case for Ending Maduro’s Rule
Washington has spent over ten years being lectured by the same class of foreign policy caretakers who confuse timidity with wisdom. They warned that pressuring Maduro would spark chaos, that confronting a narcostate would destabilize the region, that any assertive move by the United States would summon ghosts from a century ago. They sold fear as strategy. They were wrong every time. And the loudest of them, Juan González, was a political adviser elevated into a national secu

Rick de la Torre
Nov 213 min read


The Algorithm is Watching
The world of espionage has always been an arms race, a ceaseless battle between deception and detection. For centuries, human...

Rick de la Torre
Feb 102 min read


The Federated Future of AI
For decades, the Intelligence Community (IC) has hoarded data the way dragons hoard gold. Centralized repositories became the go-to model...

Rick de la Torre
Dec 4, 20244 min read
Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: A Case of U.S. Policy Failure
The U.S. must abandon the illusion that diplomacy alone will contain a regime that perceives strategic advantage in nuclear brinkmanship.

Rick de la Torre
Aug 29, 20241 min read
HSI’s Blueprint for Success: Agile Operations, Strong Intelligence, and Global Partnerships
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has emerged as a leading force in the fight against transnational crime, and its recent capture of...

Rick de la Torre
Aug 14, 20242 min read
The Silent War: Why U.S. Intelligence Must Evolve for Near-Peer Competition
we must recognize that intelligence is not merely an adjunct to military power—it is the foundation upon which all modern warfare is built.

Rick de la Torre
Aug 11, 20243 min read
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