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Welcome to The Sixth Field

-- Intelligence for Sovereign Advantage -

The Sixth Field is not marked on any map. It is the contested arena where technology, infrastructure, and strategy converge, where power is exercised continuously, algorithmically, and globally. This is not a metaphor. It is the operating environment of our time.

We track the forces reshaping sovereignty in this terrain: defence technology, artificial intelligence, captured narratives, decentralized infrastructure (DePIN networks like blockchain-powered energy or data systems), and the strategic control of critical resources like rare earths used in tech manufacturing. Explore the latest Dispatches for real-time market updates and investment ideas, Codex entries for deep dives into technologies and accessible funding opportunities, and Field Notes for emerging trends to guide your portfolio, or dive into the Archive for a comprehensive mapping of this contested space

Sixth Field Codex

Aug 23, 2025

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4 min read

Sixth Field Codex

A living doctrine for builders, strategists, and policymakers

The Sixth Field - Dispatch #008

Jan 30, 2026

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5 min read

The Sixth Field - Dispatch #008

Sovereign Endurance | Cost-Curve Inversion | Subsurface Precision | Post-Narrative Doctrine

The Sixth Field - Dispatch #009

Feb 27, 2026

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5 min read

The Sixth Field - Dispatch #009

Sovereignty Reasserted | Distributed Resilience | Narrative Power

Our scope extends across cyberspace, outer space, and financial networks, frontiers where new contests emerge every day, from satellite-driven surveillance to capital flows that dictate market dominance, determining both autonomy and vulnerability. The Sixth Field delivers strategic intelligence for those with leverage: investors, from retail to institutional, who decide where capital flows, shaping markets through stocks, ETFs, crowdfunding, venture funding, IPOs, or private equity, and policymakers and leaders who decide how that power is governed. Each briefing balances market foresight with actionable insights on trends, risks, and opportunities, alongside governance clarity and democratic legitimacy, so decision-makers can act with both value and values in mind.

Intelligence from The Sixth Field highlights three essentials for sovereignty and success in this arena:

  • Risk-Focused Foresight: Anticipate regulatory shifts, tech races, and geopolitical shocks that impact markets, from AI regulations to resource price volatility, while exposing narrative capture and disinformation that skew investment decisions.

  • Infrastructure Resilience: Identify vulnerabilities in supply chains and resources, like rare earths or blockchain networks, to invest in resilient technologies and markets that counter choke points and drive long-term returns.

  • Strategic Terrain Mapping: See beyond headlines to track who is building and leading in AI, blockchain, and resource markets, revealing investment opportunities in today’s contested terrain.

The reporting rhythm is deliberate:

  • Field Notes: published on weekdays

  • Dispatches: issued monthly

  • Codex Updates: released twice a year

We don’t predict the future. We reveal how it is being built, contested, and secured, delivering intelligence to those who shape markets and policies.

The signal is the high ground. Hold it.

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Feb 27, 2026

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5 min read

The Sixth Field - Dispatch #009

Sovereignty Reasserted | Distributed Resilience | Narrative Power

Damian Blackwood
Damian Blackwood
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Feb 26, 2026

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3 min read

Germany's Syria Deportation Dilemma: Sovereignty, Capacity, and the Politics of Return

Repatriation policy is becoming a stress test of state capacity, legitimacy, and operational realism.

Damian Blackwood
Damian Blackwood
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Feb 25, 2026

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3 min read

Russia's Starlink Dependency: Embedded Commercial Space as a Battlefield Vulnerability

When your adversary controls the network layer, your doctrine rests on rented infrastructure.

Damian Blackwood
Damian Blackwood

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