<![CDATA[Future // History]]>https://www.futurehistory.iohttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W28a!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd78d0299-fc66-44fc-81c5-015d0ce4c2ff_976x976.pngFuture // Historyhttps://www.futurehistory.ioSubstackWed, 15 Apr 2026 09:13:57 GMT<![CDATA[The Shareholder State]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/the-shareholder-statehttps://www.futurehistory.io/p/the-shareholder-stateTue, 10 Mar 2026 13:15:38 GMTIn February 2022, as Russian missiles began landing on Kyiv, a series of decisions were made in boardrooms in Seattle, Redmond, and Cupertino that would have been unrecognizable as corporate behavior a decade earlier. Microsoft and Amazon migrated Ukrainian government and military data to cloud infrastructure outside Russia’s physical reach. Apple and G…

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]]><![CDATA[Signal // Noise 004]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-004https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-004Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:03:01 GMTGood morning team - I’m writing from Brooklyn after wrapping up a month of intensive field work across Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The jet lag is brutal, but the clarity and insights into the key geopolitical and national security issues of our day is worth it.

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]]><![CDATA[Signal // Noise 003]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-003https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-003Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:02:46 GMTWhere Great Powers compete. Best taken with a cigarette and a cup of coffee.

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]]><![CDATA[Centers of Gravity]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/centers-of-gravityhttps://www.futurehistory.io/p/centers-of-gravityThu, 19 Jun 2025 12:45:20 GMTGood morning, team!

Writing to you guys today from the southern-most tip of Taiwan, watching the Iran-Israel confrontation play out through OSINT feeds. There's something profoundly instructive about observing geopolitical crisis management from this particular vantage point—sitting at the intersection of great power competition while regional middle pow…

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]]><![CDATA[Signal // Noise 002]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-002https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-002Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:03:08 GMTGrab your coffee and settle in. Iran and Israel trade kinetic strikes as long simmering tensions over Iran’s nuclear program come to a boil - it’s a continued exposition of how uncrewed systems are impacting combined-arms warfare and great power competition.

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]]><![CDATA[Lessons from History]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/lessons-from-historyhttps://www.futurehistory.io/p/lessons-from-historyThu, 12 Jun 2025 13:03:05 GMTGood morning, team!

Fresh off a deep dive into declassified State Department archives, I've been wrestling with a fascinating parallel between Franklin Delanor Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program and today's strategic competition landscape. What emerged from those digital + dusty Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) documents isn't just a historical …

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]]><![CDATA[Signal // Noise 001]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-1https://www.futurehistory.io/p/signal-noise-1Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:03:04 GMTGrab your coffee and settle in. What happened deep in Russia last week isn't just another drone strike—it's a preview of how the increasing proliferation of decentralized, attritable tech capabilities will continue to impact security and great power competition.

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]]><![CDATA[Introducing Future // History]]>https://www.futurehistory.io/p/introducing-future-historyhttps://www.futurehistory.io/p/introducing-future-historyThu, 05 Jun 2025 12:40:31 GMTGood morning, reader.

My name is Jesse Nuese, and I'm launching something I've been thinking about for months—a way to cut through the noise and make sense of our increasingly complex world.

I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Forward Horizon Group, a specialized consulting firm operating at the critical intersection of global security, frontier markets, and em…

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