What is Future // History ?
Every two weeks, I write about the strategic forces that are reshaping security, technology, and markets. Great power competition. Geoeconomic fragmentation. The AI arms race. Cyber conflict. The collision between commercial innovation and national defense and the connective tissue that drives all of it.
This isn’t a news digest but rather a strategic read on where things are heading and why it matters — written by someone who spends most of the year in the places where these dynamics play out.
Who writes this?
I’m Jesse Nuese. I lead business development at Cracken, an AI cybersecurity company built by Ukrainian cyber operators whose tools were forged defending critical infrastructure against Russian nation-state attacks. I’m also the co-founder of Forward Horizon Group, a defense technology consultancy that deploys and validates dual-use systems in contested environments — 30+ trips to Ukraine and 15+ to Taiwan since 2022.
Once upon a time, I served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan. I’m lucky to have studied all over the world at the intersection of markets, technology, and security - I studied international relations at Columbia, international business at the Fletcher School at Tufts, and cybersecurity at NYU. I’m currently pursuing a PhD in Defence Studies at King’s College London, researching how private security contractors shape military technology innovation. I’ve also studied Mandarin at Peking University in Beijing, and conducted research at the University of Cambridge as a part of the Cambridge Security Initiative.
I write from where I work and what I study — and most weeks, those are the same place.
Who should subscribe?
People who will find Future // History helpful are professionals, staffers, politicians, academics, techies, community members, and anyone trying to understand the interplay of security, markets, and technology in a world that is increasingly hot, dangerous, crowded, and interconnected.
