The War for Everything by Kai London
Competition between states no longer confines itself to obvious arenas. It runs through semiconductors and standards bodies, subsea cables and cloud regions, shipping lanes and data rules. The War for Everything sets out, without taking a side, how that breadth reaches the ordinary decisions of enterprises that have to keep operating across all of it.
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What the book covers
Where competition now runs
Technology, infrastructure, standards, capital and data — treated as connected domains rather than separate policy files.
Chokepoints and concentration
Why a small number of components, routes, vendors and jurisdictions carry a disproportionate share of the risk.
Standards and rule-setting
How technical standards and regulation shape commercial outcomes long before anything visible happens.
The enterprise in the middle
What it means to run a business whose dependencies cross the very lines that are being contested.
Analysis without advocacy
Describing conditions and exposures rather than assigning blame or predicting how disputes resolve.
Practical governance
Bringing this into the risk register, the supplier review and the board agenda in a way that survives challenge.
Who it is for: boards and executive teams, strategy and corporate development leaders, CISOs and resilience functions, procurement and supply chain leadership, and policy analysts who need the commercial consequences stated plainly.
When everything is contested, the useful question is not who wins — it is which of your dependencies sits on the contested ground.
About the author
Professor Kai London — CISSP, CISM.
An internationally recognised cybersecurity executive, board advisor and Founder & CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security LLC, writing at the convergence of AI, governance and operational resilience. Honorary Professor and Researcher at UCL.