The Epistemic Challenge

The strategic environment of the 21st century is defined less by scarcity of information than by its overabundance and corruption.

• Military domain: proliferation of cyber-operations, hybrid warfare, and decentralized insurgencies generate continuous streams of adversarial data.

• Economic domain: globalized supply chains and algorithmic markets produce high-frequency fluctuations and systemic fragility.

• Political domain: information operations, deepfakes, and coordinated inauthentic behavior erode institutional legitimacy.

• Social domain: mass participation in digital ecosystems amplifies misinformation at scale.

Traditional intelligence systems collapse under these conditions because they are hierarchical, siloed, and retrospective. Legion proposes a distributed, adaptive, and anticipatory architecture.