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The Zevin Intelligence Journal

Chanan Zevin Author & editor

Articles on how wars are won and lost: the money, logistics, intelligence and decisions behind the headlines of history. Browse the articles below, ordered by the historical periods they cover. Broad World War II essays are grouped by era. The contemporary review and recovered pieces without a specific historical event date follow.

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Chanan Zevin, author and editor of Ezevin — Chanan ZevinFounder & CEO, Insightful Data Technologies

Articles

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1920s–1940 · Rearmament

The Limits of Rearmament

Money, readiness, and the myth of the genius who saw everything coming.

Chanan Zevin7 min read

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World War II · Codebreaking

Enigma: the hidden architecture of intelligence

Three chapters: intelligence and uncertainty, the mathematical structure of Enigma, and Shannon entropy and probabilistic analysis.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: A tense wartime command room and map table

World War II · Command

The great deception

Psychological dynamics, the perversion of language, and the isolation of the Nazi leadership from reality.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: Wartime logistics: horse-drawn supplies and mechanized transport

World War II · Logistics and collapse

Why the German Army Collapsed

On military structure, historical memory, and the distance between an impressive system and a responsible one.

Chanan Zevin4 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: Armored coordination and radio communication during the 1940 campaign

1940 · Battle of France

Why Germany Defeated France in 1940

Radio, concentration and combined arms: why the decisive advantage lay between the tanks, not inside them.

Chanan Zevin4 min read

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1942 · Battle of Midway

Midway: the intelligence behind the victory

How effective intelligence and decisive leadership transformed an apparent disadvantage into a historic victory in the Pacific.

Chanan Zevin1 min read

Historical illustration of snow-covered Stalingrad ruins in amber winter light

1942–1943 · Stalingrad

Stalingrad: the collapse of strategic illusion

Diplomatic miscalculations, logistical fragility, command rigidity, and the illusion of sustainable supply converged into irreversible failure.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

Existing AI-created editorial illustration of civic life and public institutions; not a documentary image of Watergate.

1972–1974 · Watergate

Watergate, Constitutional Stress, and the Repricing of U.S. Political Risk

Institutional analysis of Watergate from the 1972 break-in to Nixon's 1974 resignation, with implications for governance risk and asset pricing.

Chanan ZevinRecovered historical essay

AI-created editorial illustration: A light aircraft approaching a carrier during the 1975 evacuation

1975 · Saigon evacuation

Seven lives. One impossible landing.

Major Buang-Ly, his wife, and five children — and Captain Chambers's unprecedented order to push helicopters over the side to clear the deck.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

1979–2026 · Historical assessment

A Strategic Assessment of the Escalating Persian Gulf Tensions: Who Would Prevail

Human factors, internal cohesion, and socio-political alignment are decisive variables beyond the battlefield in a US–Iran confrontation.

Chanan ZevinRecovered short piece

AI-created editorial illustration: A civic public square, books and the idea of citizenship

Contemporary · Citizenship and society

The Dying Citizen

Victor Davis Hanson's analysis of how the classical notion of citizenship is under siege in contemporary society.

Chanan Zevin1 min read

Existing site artwork of a digital intelligence workspace; conceptual illustration.

2026 · Recovered short piece

The Dutch Story: The Architecture of Trust — Why Structure Outlasts Speed

Across history, influence has grown from systems designed with discipline rather than improvisation. Infrastructure outlives tactics.

Chanan ZevinRecovered short piece

AI-generated image: a modern glass corporate building

2026 · Recovered short piece

Digital Presence

Official platforms: AizevinStocks, ZevinInsight, and The Zevin Intelligence Journal (eZevin).

Chanan ZevinRecovered short piece

Existing site artwork of a digital intelligence workspace; conceptual illustration.

2026 · Recovered short piece

The Three Pillars

Decoding uncertainty, leveraging history, and enhancing strategic reasoning — the conceptual foundation of the Journal.

Chanan ZevinRecovered short piece

AI-generated image: a glass globe linked by data lines between a modern city skyline and classical columns, a connected ecosystem

2026 · Recovered short piece

The Zevin Financial AI Ecosystem

A growing network of digital platforms focused on AI, financial analytics, and data‑driven market intelligence across ezevin.com, zevininsight.com, forex.aizevinstocks.com, and zevinfinancialai.com.

Chanan ZevinRecovered short piece