Strategic Power Watch



Strategic Power Watch tracks significant developments in the concentration of artificial intelligence, defense technology, intelligence systems, global communications, robotics, infrastructure, capital, and political influence within private networks. Updates will focus on evidence that materially strengthens or weakens the private-strategic-power hypothesis—not routine technology or business news. Each update will distinguish verified facts from supported inference, unresolved allegations, and speculation.

PSP Watch Reports

UPDATE | October 1, 2026 — Strategic Power Watch

New evidence concerning SpaceX access to government orbital data, regulatory support and strategic infrastructure strengthens parts of the PSP assessment while leaving broader coordination questions unresolved.

FOCUS | September 16, 2026 — Palantir Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

An unusually explicit vision connecting artificial intelligence, software, national defense and state power—and what it tells us about the emergence of Private Strategic Power.

September 10, 2026 — Private Strategic Power Expands Further into Battlefield Systems, Physical Autonomy, and Weapons Production