Announcing Our New TECHINT Fundamentals Course: Learn to Read Weapon Systems


TECHINT FUNDAMENTALS

Hey Reader

Today we’re launching the biggest course we’ve ever built at Grey Dynamics Intelligence School.

TECHINT: Technical Intelligence.

15 modules, 78 video lessons, on how weapon systems actually work: what they do, how they do it, and why it matters to the decisions you make.

The instructor is Travis Butson. His CV reads like the syllabus

Role

Where

Intelligence Commander, Operation Inherent Resolve

609th Combined Air Operations Centre, Qatar - 60+ nation coalition, advising a 3-star general

Intelligence Commander, Operation Inherent Resolve

Japan - protecting aircraft from aggressive intercepts over the South and East China Seas

Deputy Director Open-Source Intelligence (final post; retired 2026)

HQ New Zealand Defence Force

He retired from the military earlier this year and now teaches full-time at Grey Dynamics Intelligence School.

Here’s why I think this matters beyond the intelligence world. Investors are pricing defence companies on renders.

Underwriters are modelling war risk on brochures.

Journalists are republishing air show mock-ups as new fighter jets.

Almost nobody has been taught how to read hardware, and hardware is where the truth lives.

This course teaches the methodology. Not spec memorisation. Methodology.

Ahmed Hassan
CEO & Founder
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