I’m Graham Jenkins, a Los Angeles-based intelligence analyst working for the U.S. Space Force (yes, get your jokes in now). My main foci these days are supply chain risks, intelligence, wargaming, nuclear policy and weapons, military history, and economic competition. I also do some writing on mass transit and urban affairs.

I originally started this blog while I was in graduate school, and after that it turned into a repository for the original thinking I had from time to time. In recent years (post-2013 or so) I’ve been a lot less consistent in writing here, but it remains both an archive of my early years as well as a scratchpad for the occasional notion or concept. I do hope you’ll indulge me. I at one point wrote a series of articles for the journal Fortnight. Occasionally shorter notes can be found at Rapid Fire Pencil.

Originally the sole focus of the site was defense and foreign policy, and often, the real nitty-gritty operational and tactical-level detail of our then-contemporary quagmires in Southwest Asia. But while these wars gradually and mostly came to an end, my own interests shifted, and I found myself more concerned with our diminished political economy and the capture of the wheels of governance by unbridled capital. Still, defense matters, especially in era when we should be doing less than less – the essence of strategy is prioritization and I hope to catalogue some of those priorities here.

It should go without saying but I’ll say it anyways: anything I write or have written here in no way reflects the official policy or position of the U.S. Space Force, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. It’s all me.