Intellectual Property
Built For the Boom
A Field Guide for Founders, Operators, and Creators
Built For the Boom is a practical roadmap for navigating the age of AI. This book teaches founders, operators, and creators how to leverage automation, scale ideas, and anticipate the next wave of technological disruption before the world catches up. It’s not just theory — it’s a tactical guide for thriving in chaos while maintaining a competitive edge.
Learn to stay ahead. Apply AI strategically. Build for the boom.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting
The Eastern Gambit
A Tactical Playbook for Strategic Forethought
The Eastern Gambit dissects how China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan are quietly orchestrating a multi-domain campaign to undermine U.S.-led dominance. This isn’t conventional warfare — it’s a slow-motion collapse engineered through cyber, economic, and geopolitical pressure. Drawing on OSINT, historical modeling, and strategic doctrine, this briefing maps the phased escalation from 2025–2030, showing how the West’s distractions, inefficiencies, and blind spots create vulnerabilities for adversaries to exploit.
Understand the long game. Recognize the signals. Prepare before it’s too late.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting
The Equation of Dependency
The Myth of the Self-Made Machine
The Equation of Dependency dismantles the myth that innovation is self-made. From AI to electric vehicles, every breakthrough relies on intricate networks of resources, labor, and logistics that most never see. This briefing exposes how coordination, not genius, drives progress — and how the illusion of independence hides systemic fragility.
Understand the hidden dependencies. Recognize the blind spots. Prepare for the fragility dividend.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting
The CIVILIZATION VISION PARADIGM (CVP)™
A Strategic Framework for Seeing Civilization as Chess
The CIVILIZATION VISION PARADIGM (CVP)™ equips you to see beyond short-term distractions and understand civilizations as systems with predictable life cycles. From collapsing empires to rising powers, CVP reveals the patterns hidden in plain sight and teaches you to position yourself as a strategic actor rather than a passive observer.
See the system. Recognize the signals. Leverage foresight for long-game dominance.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting
The Math of Collapse: How the USSR Fell and Why Systems Don’t Break, They Execute
A Tactical Framework for Understanding Systemic Decline
The Math of Collapse reframes the fall of empires as arithmetic, not chaos. Using the USSR as a case study, it reveals how compounding inputs—economic decay, political fracture, military overextension, legitimacy erosion, and social stress—outweigh counterweights like regime control and resource cushions, resolving inevitably into systemic failure. Collapse isn’t sudden. It is predictable, measurable, and executable.
Recognize the variables. Track the inputs. Understand the system before it solves itself.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting
Pragmatic Preemptive Realism
A Doctrine for Navigating the New Decentralized World
Pragmatic Preemptive Realism reframes power in the 21st century as leverage, not legacy. The old hierarchies didn’t collapse—they decentralized, automated their stress responses, and stopped waiting for permission. Influence now flows through supply chains, resource chokepoints, cyber networks, and strategic optionality. Success belongs to those who act first, maintain redundancy, and control the variables that matter. Heroism, morality, and nostalgia are liabilities; structural unavoidability and calibrated moves are the currency of survival.
Map the leverage. Engineer optionality. Move before the system notices.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting
Why the Smartest Person in the Room Doesn’t Win Anymore
A Tactical Framework for Cognitive Supremacy in the Intelligence Era
The era of the lone genius is over. In a world of ambient intelligence, hyperconnected systems, and algorithmic velocity, raw IQ is table stakes. Real leverage belongs to those who integrate human intellect with networks, AI, and systems. Intelligence without integration is wasted. Strategy without scale is irrelevant. Success favors the augmented thinker — the operator who orchestrates cognition as a system, not as a solitary spark.
Map your networks. Interface with AI. Engineer your mind. Expand beyond the limitations of biology.
— Thomas VanBuskirk | Renegade Strategic Consulting