GP-2026-016 | April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19161286 ABSTRACT Existing frameworks for terrorism detection, crime prevention, and hybrid warfare assessment share a structural miscalibration that the fifth wave deliberately exploits. Complexity — the defining characteristic of fifth-wave extremism — is not ideological confusion but a deliberately engineered strategy of analytical evasion whose logic has remained unexplained because it requires all three of its

GP-2026-009 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007470 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive suppression is not a failure of institutional design. Across documented historical contexts — from classical Athens to Soviet science to contemporary organisational life — institutions suppress the cognitive profiles they most need through the same mechanism they use to select for competence: the advancement criteria that identify reliable

GP-2026-005 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19006871 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Ideological conformity within institutions has long been attributed to coercion, propaganda, or the calculated suppression of dissent. At its centre lies a different mechanism — the advancement filter — through which institutions produce genuine conviction without requiring direct access to individual minds. Wherever advancement is conditional on de

GP-2026-004 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19006739 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Belief persistence under disconfirmation — the maintenance of conviction against accumulating contrary evidence — represents one of the most consequential and least examined phenomena in social psychology and political analysis. At its centre lies the concept of load-bearing belief: a conviction whose revision would require simultaneous restructurin