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Seeing the Systems That Keep Life Running This article references parts of the story in my fiction books, The Meadow Protocol and book 2, After The Brush, part of The Continuity Chronicles series. Available in my store for signed paperback and hard copies for from Amazon to include Kindle and Audible. TECHINT—Technical & Infrastructure Intelligence— is the discipline focused on understanding the technology, physical systems, and infrastructure that make modern life function. Power generation and distribution, water and wastewater systems, fuel and energy supply, transportation networks, communications, data centers, satellites, and the industrial control systems (ICS/SCADA) that run them all fall under TECHINT’s lens. Where other intelligence disciplines focus on people, intent, or information, TECHINT focuses on capability, capacity, dependency, and failure. For preparedness, this matters enormously—because when disruptions occur, it is infrastructure that determines what still works, what degrades, and what fails outright. Preparedness without TECHINT is guesswork. Preparedness with TECHINT is informed decision-making. What TECHINT Actually Examines TECHINT looks beneath the surface of everyday convenience to understand how systems are built and how they behave under stress. Key areas include: System ArchitectureCentralized vs. distributed designs, redundancy, manual overrides, and single points of failure. InterdependenciesHow power affects water pressure,...