What Is The Stack: Anatomy of Enforcement?

How infrastructure became the real source of power - and what it means for you
By Russell Parrott

Forget what you’ve been told about borders, treaties, or diplomacy.
In the post-sovereign world, power is no longer what you hold. It’s what you’re allowed to use.

That’s the core of Signal Doctrine; The Stack: Anatomy of Enforcement - a new strategic framework for understanding the most important shift of the 21st century:

Power is enforced through infrastructure. Access is conditional. Alignment is assumed.

What the Book Is Really About

The Stack: Anatomy of Enforcement is not a manifesto, a theory, or a speculative fiction.
It’s a field manual for navigating a world where:

• Chips determine alliances
• Cloud providers govern visibility
• AI models enforce political reality
• Satellites decide who stays online
• Payment systems can quietly revoke participation

It explains why the world no longer runs on law or consent - but on platform logic, access gates, and programmable compliance.

Why This Matters

Today, most nations don’t control the tools they depend on.
They:

• Rent compute from foreign clouds
• Use chips they can’t produce
• Depend on satellite constellations they don’t own
• Build AI with models that can be revoked by API
• Run payments through systems that enforce sanctions before policy

This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s architecture.

The stack doesn’t care what party you vote for. It checks whether you’re aligned.

Real-World Examples Covered in the Book

• Ukraine’s military feed was cut off by Starlink until alignment was restored
• Russia lost access to SWIFT - and $300B - overnight
• NVIDIA chips were blocked from export to China, stalling AI development
• Iran was cut off from cloud services and GitHub, collapsing developer access
• Google and Apple removed entire apps from national ecosystems without warning

These aren’t edge cases. They’re the new normal and The Stack: Anatomy of Enforcement explains what they really mean.

What You'll Learn

By reading The Stack: Anatomy of Enforcement, you’ll understand:

• Why platforms, not governments, enforce compliance
• How stack alignment defines strategic alliances
• What happens when access is denied at the infrastructure level
• Why neutrality is now obsolete
• How resistance movements build mesh networks and fallback compute
• What 2030 might look like when the system “seals” for good

Who Should Read This Book?

• Strategists reviewing national digital sovereignty
• Executives concerned about cloud, chip, or AI dependencies
• Citizens trying to understand why their systems silently fail
• Educators decoding global power shifts
• Policymakers and NGOs looking for fallback options and alignment risks

And anyone asking:

“Who can really shut off my country - and how?”

Core Thesis

You don’t lose power by invasion.
You lose it by losing access.

That’s the world we now live in.
The question isn’t if The Stack: Anatomy of Enforcement is real.
It’s whether you’ve realised it yet.