The Pentagon has a covert tech sabotage agency that they really don’t want you to know about — and there are big questions about its oversight
THE SO WHAT
State-backed disruption of foreign tech stacks via disinformation, cyber, and physical sabotage means resilience is now a board topic, not just a CISO concern. If your infra, vendors, or data flows cross strategic fault lines, you need an explicit playbook for operating under persistent, deniable interference.
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