John Sullivan

I presented "Transnational Crime and the State: Criminal Insurgencies, Crime Wars, Gangs, Mafias, and Cartels" to an international seminar sponsored by the Secretaria de Estado de Segurança Pública do Distrito Federal in Brasilia. on 27 November 2019 lnkd.in/gZiEZAq

Contributor: The U.S. desperately needs functional counterterrorism latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns. abcnews.link/MQcR914

The United States’ actions in Iran are making nuclear weapons look “more attractive than ever,” warn @NicoleGrajewski and Ankit Panda. Today, “would-be nuclear states understand the urgency of developing a weapon in secret.” foreignaffairs.com/iran/stunning-…

‘Doomsday scenario’: a visual guide to the oil and gas site attacks in the Middle East | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

Inside China’s robotics revolution | Robots | The Guardian theguardian.com/technology/202…

'If Australia is to effectively evolve from having a national intelligence community to possessing national intelligence power, it will need to more effectively meet its customers where they are now, or indeed where they will be,' writes @StatecraftINT. aspistrategist.org.au/ai-is-revoluti…

Funcionarios del Cabildo y mandos policiales del municipio de Chavinda, Michoacán, fueron detenidos por su presunta colusión con el CJNG y como parte de las investigaciones del Operativo Enjambre. lasillarota.com/estados/2026/3…

Christian nationalism is arguably the dominant political force in Texas today, thanks, in part, to multimillion-dollar donations from two West Texas billionaires. newyorker.com/magazine/lette…

The White House heard Corey Lewandowski kickback allegations but did nothing. Several companies have accused Lewandowski of seeking payment for DHS contracts — and top Trump officials have known for months. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

"World War II taught the United States that energy constraints on wartime production are foreseeable and preventable, but only if the government acts before a crisis materializes," writes @CSISEnergy. Read more: csis.org/analysis/energ…

🔴 SSP Jalisco investiga posible corrupción Indagan presuntos pagos del CJNG a elementos de seguridad eluniversal.com.mx/estados/ssp-de…

The US Justice Department said it took part in an operation with Germany and Canada to take down infrastructure used by four major botnets that infected more than 3 million devices worldwide, including hundreds of thousands in the US reut.rs/4d4oRPz

#AIBoom is driving a surge in data centres whose #EnergyDemand and #WaterUse rival essential consumption. Krishna Vohra or-f.org/37178

Pentágono alerta sobre riesgo de cárteles para estadounidenses en México durante el Mundial zetatijuana.com/2026/03/pentag… a través de @ZetaTijuana

El barrio de la muerte | #Opinión de @hdemauleon✍️ "En el sótano de un edificio ubicado en esta calle ejecutaron en noviembre pasado a 'La Plástico', operadora de la venta de droga para uno de los grupos de la Unión Tepito" eluniversal.com.mx/opinion/hector…

Charles Exum, the Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez five times, texted a group chat with fellow agents a few days after the shooting. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys,” he wrote. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZBXHNm

Justice Department Disrupts Iranian Cyber Enabled Psychological Operations MOIS used these for psychological operations targeting adversaries of the regime, including calling for the killing of journalists, regime dissidents, and Israeli persons justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

"There is good reason for the Maneuver Center of Excellence to assume responsibility for the management of modernizing and integrating sUAS, which are inextricably linked to ground maneuver forces’ missions." mwi.westpoint.edu/who-owns-the-d…

Iranian retaliation in U.S.? lawfaremedia.org/article/iran-w…

Biosecurity: Threat of Illegal Biolabs lawfaremedia.org/article/two-il…