@MelanieGarson

Speaker, adviser, educator: cyber & AI policy, future warfare, tech geopolitics, associate professor @uclspp , former @institutegc,VR explorer & mediator.

 London, England
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Joined February 2019
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Picking Wildberries & Protecting Amazons: Hyperscalers and Hyperscaling Drone Defence linkedin.com/pulse/picking-w… via @LinkedIn

Picking Wildberries & Protecting Amazons: Hyperscalers and Hyperscaling Drone Defence

This week reports have emerged that the US has recently deployed two more Patriot missile defense batteries to protect key energy infrastructure as Washington considers further military action...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: This Year at Bandcamp: Models Behaving Badly, Music Hacks & Policy Lessons from Dolly Parton linkedin.com/pulse/year-band… via @LinkedIn

This Year at Bandcamp: Models Behaving Badly, Music Hacks & Policy Lessons from Dolly Parton

It has been a busy few months at the coal face of cyber, tech policy, and defence tech (see my other newsletter later this week). I had hoped for a slight lull to regroup on the newsletter and...

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For the Want of a Horseshoe Nail

The urgent warnings of the need to rapidly scale defence tech innovation and production have come to pass probably with even greater ferocity than many imagined. And while one set of headlines have...

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Great sharing thoughts with @JonathanMoynih3 for @ForcesNews on the gamification of warfare @uclspp
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🗣️ “You were able to draw that line between fiction and reality much more clearly” @ForcesNews spoke with @MelanieGarson about how the gamification of warfare is impacting real-world perceptions of conflict, blurring the line between fact and fiction⬇️ forcesnews.com/epic-fury/tru…

Trump's use of gameplay footage to promote Iran war undermines troops, argues expert

The US has been sharing material combining real-life missile strikes with scenes from games like Call of Duty - and Iran is following suit

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Starry Eyed in the Cloud War: Will the Data Embassy Strike Back? linkedin.com/pulse/starry-ey… via @LinkedIn
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Stryking at the AI-chilles Heels & Hearts linkedin.com/pulse/stryking-… via @LinkedIn

Stryking at the AI-chilles Heels & Hearts

Coming back after a week’s pause due to demands of responding to requests for commentary and analysis on the Iran war, I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of possible tech policy issues that I want...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: To the Moon & Back: New Bonds, Breaking Boundaries & Betrayal linkedin.com/pulse/moon-back… via @LinkedIn

To the Moon & Back: New Bonds, Breaking Boundaries & Betrayal

A Valentine’s edition of this week’s newsletter that celebrates the very fraught relationships in cyber and tech policy over the last week. With one eye on the Munich Security Conference (no doubt...

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‘🇬🇧 should stand back and survey the long-term trajectory of its ambitions as an intelligent or frontier power,’ writes @MelanieGarson, our Adjunct Fellow #BigAsk #BritainsWorld britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-b…

Should Britain act more like a major or middle power?

The Big Ask | No. 05.2026

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Get into Defence & Security | LinkedIn

Thoughts & inspiration for those trying to find their place in the future of defence & security.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Filternet, Flattery & Fragility: The Need for Next Generation Internet Policy linkedin.com/pulse/filternet… via @LinkedIn

Filternet, Flattery & Fragility: The Need for Next Generation Internet Policy

Davos dominated the headlines last week where the theme of the “Spirit of Dialogue” was co-opted by from trying to cool the conversation on Greenland to clash of the Tech Titans. With part of the...

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Fragmenting Foes & Model Friends

As 400 political leaders and over 100 tech pioneers are among the 3000 people who are descending on Davos this week (one day I’ll actually make it over there), every aspect of what we watch for in...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Serving and Severing: The Starlink-Grok Paradox linkedin.com/pulse/serving-s… via @LinkedIn

Serving and Severing: The Starlink-Grok Paradox

Welcome to the 50th edition of the Getting into Cyber & Tech Policy Newsletter. I cannot quite believe that it has been a year since I started this blog and I remember writing at the start of 2025...

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Term may not be back but #Geopolitics never takes a dubeybreak- a Saturday night discussing #foreignpolicy with @timesofindia's Vivek Dubey @uclspp timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

Maduro: Why Maduro, why now: Inside America’s most dramatic move in Latin America in decades - The...

US News: For years, Washington had spoken of Nicolás Maduro in the language of indictments, sanctions and moral outrage. He was branded a narco-terrorist, accu.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Embracing the Anxiety of Uncertainty: On Predictability & Inferences linkedin.com/pulse/embracing… via @LinkedIn

Embracing the Anxiety of Uncertainty: On Predictability & Inferences

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2026 that hopefully will help some of you meeting those resolutions to stay-up-to-date and to take that next step in your career. I am sure that if any of your...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Finding your Waymo in a Blackout: TechForce to the Rescue? linkedin.com/pulse/finding-y… via @LinkedIn

Finding your Waymo in a Blackout: TechForce to the Rescue?

The year is drawing to a close and many of us are hanging up our tech policy hats for a short break to spend time with family and friends, unless you were in San Francisco a couple of days ago when a...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Silicon Peace Theory & The Big Beautiful Rule linkedin.com/pulse/silicon-p… via @LinkedIn

The Silicon Peace Theory & The Big Beautiful Rule

For anyone who has taken any kind of international relations class at some point you will have been taught that the “closest thing that exists to an empirical law” is the Democratic Peace Theory....

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Nothing like the smell of cyber in the morning ⁦@CyberWeek⁩ style! #cyber
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From Techno-Genesis to Techno-Babel: Cain & Confusion at the Dawn of the Intelligence Era linkedin.com/posts/melaniega…

From Techno-Genesis to Techno-Babel: Cain & Confusion at the Dawn of the Intelligence Era | Melanie...

Bringing my head up from a week in #defencetech & #quantumdiplomacy for a slightly philosophical look at #techpolicy futures this week. (This is what happens when your higher education starts with...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Sun & SoverAIgnty When Resilience is Clouded linkedin.com/pulse/sun-sover… via @LinkedIn

Sun & SoverAIgnty When Resilience is Clouded

There has been a lot to reflect on in the last ten days. In the UK it was the week that all the local cyber policy folks had been anticipating with the long-awaited Cyber Security & Resilience Bill...

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