Field Note: After the Headline
Bryce Ernst Bryce Ernst

Field Note: After the Headline

The morning after a CEO was killed in New York, a Florida board called asking what they were missing. What began as reassurance became a months-long audit of how leadership, family, and security intertwine when fear meets governance.

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Field Note: The Spies Have Entered the Chat
Bryce Ernst Bryce Ernst

Field Note: The Spies Have Entered the Chat

A routine security plan for an international trip turns when one email doesn’t belong. What began as travel preparation becomes a counterintelligence exercise, and a lesson in how tradecraft can hide in plain sight.

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Field Note: Following the Yachts
Bryce Ernst Bryce Ernst

Field Note: Following the Yachts

When sanctions hit Russian oligarchs, a task force in New York was told to track their yachts. What followed was less glamour than patience, and a lesson in how truth always leaves a trail, no matter how far it sails.

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Field Note: Our Man in the Paddock
Bryce Ernst Bryce Ernst

Field Note: Our Man in the Paddock

Sometimes the work doesn’t happen in quiet rooms. It happens in the noise, a Formula One race in Miami; the heat, the crowd, the timing. A chance meeting becomes something more, and the lesson stays long after the engines fade.

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Field Note: Moscow to Minot
Bryce Ernst Bryce Ernst

Field Note: Moscow to Minot

A Russian procurement case led to an address that didn’t belong, a family feed store in North Dakota. What followed was long hours in a small office, diner food, and the reminder that whether it’s Moscow or Main Street, the money always tells the story.

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