Published Work

Analysis With a Public Track Record

White papers, executive insights, and selected RAGE X analysis — dated, checkable, and written by the analyst himself. Credibility is the balance sheet here.

Featured White Paper

The Drone Age: Loitering Munitions and the New Battlefield

The full analytical case — how suicide drones broke the defender's economics across four theaters, why interceptor-first doctrine fails under saturation, and what a physical layer of urban defense changes. Gated; delivered by email.

Insights

The Insight Files

Security Strategy

Running Payroll Through a Currency Collapse: A Security Operator's Playbook

The lira collapsed and the banks froze. Guards still had to be paid, on post, every month. What actually worked — and what did not.

2026-07-29 · 10 min read

GovTech

Digitising the Mukhtar: How to Modernise a 150-Year-Old Institution Without Replacing It

Most GovTech routes around the human layer of government. In Lebanon that fails. The design case for digitising access to the Mukhtar, not the Mukhtar.

2026-07-28 · 10 min read

Intelligence

Building a National Security Index: The Methodology Behind the CIS Lebanon Security Index™

How to build a daily national threat index that survives reality: the scale, the governorate model, the 08:00 discipline, and the failure modes.

2026-07-27 · 10 min read

Drone Warfare

Fibre-Optic FPV Drones: The Countermeasure That Beat Every Jammer

A spool of glass fibre defeated a decade of electronic warfare investment. Why fibre-optic FPVs are jamming-immune, and what defenders must change.

2026-07-25 · 10 min read

Security Strategy

TSCM Explained: What an Embassy-Grade Electronic Sweep Actually Involves

What a real technical surveillance countermeasures sweep involves, why detection is elimination, and how to tell a genuine sweep from theatre.

2026-07-23 · 10 min read

Drone Warfare

Inside the March 2026 Iran–GCC Drone Campaign: What 36 Hours Proved

3,000+ drones and missiles against all six GCC states in 36 hours. What the largest drone warfare event in history proved — and what it did not.

2026-07-16 · 10 min read

Drone Warfare

The 30-to-1 Problem: Why Drone Defence Economics Favour the Attacker

A $30,000 drone destroys a $700,000 howitzer. A $5,000 drone forces a $3,000,000 interceptor. The exchange rate is the weapon, and it is not improving.

2026-07-09 · 11 min read

Drone Warfare

Counter-Drone Architecture for Critical Infrastructure: A Layered Design Guide

How to design counter-UAS defence for a power station, a port, or a government quarter — the four-stage chain, where it breaks, and what to buy last.

2026-07-02 · 11 min read

Drone Warfare

The Shield Curtain Doctrine: Why Cities Need a Physical Answer to Drones

Electronic counter-drone layers fail exactly when they matter most. The case for a physical net perimeter and district-level human defence teams.

2026-06-28 · 3 min read

Intelligence

Five Levels of Threat: Inside the CIS Lebanon Security Index™

How Lebanon's first daily security intelligence system works — the five-level scale, the 08:00 discipline, and why a security firm publishes intelligence.

2026-06-14 · 3 min read

Security Strategy

What SAGEM Taught a 16-Year-Old About Counter-Terrorism

Counter-terrorism technology training at sixteen with SAGEM France, and the one method that still runs through every sweep two decades later.

2026-05-30 · 3 min read

Security Strategy

Leading a Security Company Through Economic Collapse: The 2019 Playbook

The lira lost roughly ninety percent of its value and the banks froze. What it takes to keep a security company operating when the country stops working.

2026-05-12 · 3 min read

GovTech

The Mukhtar Goes Digital: What Cedar Connect Means for Lebanese Government Services

Cedar Connect digitises access to Lebanon's Mukhtar institution instead of trying to replace it. That single design choice is the entire strategy.

2026-04-26 · 4 min read

Intelligence

From 0 to 322,000: Building a Military Intelligence Audience Without Ads

322,000+ followers and roughly 20M monthly views, with zero paid acquisition. What actually builds an owned audience in defence intelligence.

2026-04-08 · 3 min read

Selected RAGE X Analysis

The Daily Feed Lives at RAGE X

Daily military analysis, conflict monitoring, and OSINT — the output of the ten-division intelligence ecosystem Carlos founded in 2020. This site carries the doctrine; RAGE X carries the tempo.

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Conflict Monitoring

Live theater coverage with verified footage analysis — Ukraine, the Middle East, and every escalation in between.

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Weapons & Platforms

System-by-system assessments of what battlefield evidence actually shows — from loitering munitions to air defense.

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Strategic Assessments

Longer-form intelligence reports on escalation dynamics, proliferation, and regional security architecture.

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Media Coverage

In the Press

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