AK Llyr is a veteran, Mason, writer, and futurist whose career spans military intelligence, global operations, and high-tech innovation. Raised on American military bases and steeped in a tradition of Honor, Duty, and Patriotism, he entered service at seventeen and spent decades navigating the world’s most challenging environments.
After leaving the military, AK built a diverse civilian career as a network architect, contractor, entrepreneur, and political strategist, while pursuing a lifelong passion for learning at institutions like Cal-tech, Berkeley, the University of Washington, and the Naval War College. His work draws from firsthand experience in war zones, disaster areas, and political arenas, offering a grounded, unflinching view of the human condition.
Before, during and after his military service he pursued his lifelong passion for learning at institutions like Cal-tech, Berkeley, the Naval War College, and the University of Washington. AK Llyr continues his studies today. As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted about life, AK believes the same is for knowledge. "Knowledge is a journey, not a destination."
AK's profound experiences with war, natural disasters, politics, and personal loss have gifted him with an empathetic worldview and deep understanding of human resilience and folly. Inspired by encounters with luminaries in writing, academia, the military and the political arena, AK writes passionately about humanity’s future, driven by a commitment to Humanity, Freedom, education, and animal welfare, by opposing authoritarianism and extremism.
Today, AK Llyr continues to write, work on linear accelerators, engage audiences as a former intelligence analyst, futurist, opponent of the Surveillance State, and as a professional speaker. He still believes that truth and knowledge are humanity’s best hope.
Be a light in dark places.
Lux e tenebris