C/O Futures Mexican Cartel Imagery Archive Robert J. Bunker 15 October 2026 Seizure of cartel FPV drones, fiber-optic canisters, and other armaments near Agua Verde, Sinaloa. Source: Coordinación Interinstitucional Sinaloa, 12 October 2026. A Third Confirmed Fiber-Optic Cartel Drone Seizure The seizure of 48 first-person-view (FPV) drones and 44 fiber-optic canisters near Agua Verde, Sinaloa, marks the third confirmed recovery of Mexican cartel FPV systems accompanied by fibe

C/O Futures Mexican Cartel Imagery Archive Robert J. Bunker 12 October 2026 Seizure of cartel FPV drones, fiber-optic equipment, explosives, and related armaments in El Rosario, Sinaloa. Source: Coordinación Interinstitucional Sinaloa, 6 October 2026. A Second Confirmed Fiber-Optic Cartel Drone Cache A large cache of first-person-view (FPV) racing drones, fiber-optic command-and-control (C2) components, explosives, and related armaments recovered in El Rosario, Sinaloa, provi

C/O Futures Mexican Cartel Imagery Archive Robert J. Bunker | 9 October 2026 A New Indication of Cartel Drone Adaptation Mexican cartels have been gradually incorporating first-person-view (FPV) racing drones into their operational arsenals, but publicly available imagery documenting this development remains fragmented. A late-September 2026 seizure in Concordia, Sinaloa, provides another important piece of that emerging picture: three apparent cartel FPV drones accompanied b

C/O Futures Mexican Cartel Imagery Archive Robert J. Bunker Note— Drawn primarily from information posted by Pernicious Propaganda (@natsecboogie) and Mexican narcos (@mexicannarcos) at X. 22 September 2026 Mexican Cartel Drone-on-Drone C-UAS Incident A newly surfaced video from Michoacán, Mexico, may document an important development in cartel drone warfare: the use of one unmanned aerial system to physically ram and neutralize another cartel-operated drone. The 38-second vi

C/O Futures AI Initiatives Op-Ed Kaden K. Bunker 19 September 2026 Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from the sidelines of cybersecurity into the middle of the security operations center. Instead of merely summarizing alerts, AI systems are increasingly being asked to triage incidents, gather evidence, search logs, correlate activity across systems, consult threat intelligence, and recommend what defenders should do next. That promises faster investigations and less p

C/O Futures Book Review Pamela Ligouri Bunker 16 September 2026 Mauro Lubrano, Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2025. Softcover; 190 pages. ISBN 978-1509555741. Understanding Anti-Technology Extremism Released in 2025, Stop the Machines by Mauro Lubrano is a fascinating look at an understudied area of extremism in which actors emphasize the negative effects of technological advancement, in some cases culminating in violent

C/O Futures Terrorism Research Note Series C/O Futures AI Initiatives Robert J. Bunker, Kaden K. Bunker, and Pamela Ligouri Bunker 30 August 2026 From early 2025 into mid-2026, an initial sequence of active shooter and extremist attacks and plots have taken place within the United States and Canada which have utilized generative artificial intelligence (GEN AI) to enhance their lethality potentials. GEN AI has been used to facilitate improvised explosive device (IED) construc

C/O Futures Terrorism Research Note Series Active (Mass Shooter) Response Lisa J. Campbell and Pamela Ligouri Bunker 22 July 2026 On 18 May 2026, teenagers Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez carried out an active shooter attack at the San Diego Islamic Center, targeting adults and children from an adjacent Muslim school who were worshipping at the center’s Mosque. Unusual in that there were two perpetrators, the attack continues an emerging global trend of non-white White Supremaci