The Weaponized World by Kai London
Interdependence was built for efficiency, not for contest. Components, payments, data flows, standards, cloud regions and connectivity all became shared infrastructure — and shared infrastructure can be constrained. The Weaponized World examines how ordinary dependencies acquire strategic weight, and what that means for organisations that never thought of themselves as exposed.
What the book covers
Chokepoints and concentration
Why a small number of suppliers, routes, materials and platforms carry disproportionate weight, and how to find yours.
Regulatory and trade instruments
How export controls, sanctions regimes, data-localisation rules and standards decisions shape what an organisation can operate and sell.
Fourth-party exposure
The dependencies behind your dependencies — and the practical limits of contractual assurance.
Scenario construction
Building plausible, bounded disruption scenarios that avoid both complacency and alarmism.
Substitution and stockholding
The economics of alternative sourcing, dual qualification and buffers, and when they are worth their cost.
Governance and escalation
Where this exposure sits on the risk register, who owns it, and what triggers an executive decision.
The treatment is analytical and even-handed: it describes mechanisms and how to assess them, rather than attributing actions to named states or predicting outcomes.
Who it is for
Boards and audit committees, chief risk officers, CISOs, procurement and supply-chain directors, and strategy teams responsible for where an organisation sources, builds and operates.
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.