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Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson
professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary
singer of the band Seeming
ex-ThouShaltNot
aesthete and ethicist of the gothic
makes awful jokes
https://linktr.ee/salexanderreed
Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Adjunct associate professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics/Asia Pacific Initiative, should be GM of the Quebec Nordiques. Usual disclaimers.
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Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Previously at, and now teaching @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Expert on international order and Asian security. Director, Taiwan Policy Initiative and Senior Political Scientist @ RAND. 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Mandiant Intelligence at Google. CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON founder. Johns Hopkins professor. Army vet.
Senior reporter at @CybersecurityDive.bsky.social covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes.bsky.social. | Send me tips: https://ericjgeller.com/contact.html
Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
Senior Game Designer at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Adjunct Professor at Georgetown. Former US Marine. Opinions own.
Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz.
CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
Baseball fan. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.
Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Once a Soldier; NATO & Allies matter. History, Food and Typos. CivMil & Professional Ethic. Government is Serious Business for Serious People. Tanks. Decency. St. Francis and Leo stan account. Delete and block liberally.
Not Stanley Tucci.
All views own.
Purple-haired civil servant. Public Diplomacy person. Historian. Author. Educator. Leader. Tar Heel. COVID Long-hauler. Doodler. Procedural-drama obsessed smart lady. Cat servant. 2x speed audiobook aficionado. Occasional trouble maker. All views my own.
|| Pathfinding in a Brave New World || Former Minor Spear Carrier || Redefining the Modern Military || Writing a Kabul Memoir || Loyal Servant of the Republic || No Official Statements || BoD at @thestrategybridge.sky.social ||
Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021), another one on its way
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
22 years as a military ops analyst. Lots on DOD, especially special ops & irregular warfare. Author of a forthcoming book on the history of US CT in Afghanistan (https://a.co/d/00ChSA82). All views my own, RT not endorsement. Be droll, not a troll.
Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5
Sequel: Duality, coming soon.
Substack: Breaking Beijing.
Podcast: Second Breakfast (ChinaTalk)
Airman + consultant + aero engineer interested in national strategy, domestic policy, environmentalism, good food, and all things aviation. Views = mine alone and not representative of anyone I work for. #airpower
Former war college professor NDU now UPortland. Posts on politics, IR, strategy, hip hop. Book: Power and Restraint. My views rep only me.
www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose.
Kiran Pfitzner
Not an official account of anything or anyone other than a guy who never learned when to shut his mouth.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Philly fan in Jersey. Interests a mile wide but an inch deep, so apologies if you found me on a specific starter pack.
We’re in the shit now, somebody’s gotta shovel it.
Senior Fellow, Defense & Security Department & Director, SWSP @CSIS. Priors: Capitol Hill, Pentagon, Chatham House, Kings College London. PhD War Studies. Author. Mom. Herder of cats. NATO nerd.
Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
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Defence Editor at The Economist.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Reporting on human interest stories to illustrate the news. Fmr US Army medic, longtime war correspondent.
Ukraine: https://www.counteroffensive.news/
Iran: https://www.iranwar.news
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas.
https://foreignpolicy.com/
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Reporter, The New York Times. Former U.S. Navy EOD & Iraq vet. Reach me securely via Signal at: johnismay.01 or by email at: john.ismay@nytimes.com
Political Scientist (all views are own, not employers’). Visiting Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, forensic psychology, school safety, and a few other things📍Atlanta, GA. This is a personal account. Mostly posts of our dogs and cats - and terrorism.
Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing)
I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal.
(He/Him)
https://www.offensive-bias.com/
Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
For defense-related stuff
Site: https://defensearchives.com/news
Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
"We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History" https://www.amazon.com/We-Defy-Chapters-Special-History-ebook/dp/B0DCGC1N1N
Defense Lead, Bloomberg Economics; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense, CNAS. Views are my own.
The donuts and beers one. Certified Barracks Lawyer. Guardian of the Thermostat. Consumer of Food and Drink. Actually forklift certified. Semper Gumpy. Drunken BBX Advocate. Writing at: https://inconvenientwarstudies.net/
Keep trying to be a 'former' scholar of civilian-military relations ... Author of Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations. Former Army infantry officer. Into bikes-beer-coffee.
I'm mean because I grew up in New England. Angletonian acolyte spreading the counterintelligence gospel. “There are tigers roaming this world, and we must recognize them or perish.” -Peer de Silva
Political science PhD candidate specializing in civ-mil. Husband, father, former gangster for capitalism. Opinions, jokes, hot takes, and other skeets are only mine and not any current or former employer’s.
Civ mil, polarization, natsec, & domestic politics |
Views own, not USG
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Junior Cyber & Electronic Warfare Modeling & Simulation Engineer
Electronic Warfare Test Engineer
Wolf. Watch aficionado. Costco Executive Member married to an 🦅.
Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
waking up everyday in a full sprint. cyber(punk) & counterintelligence. bloody inertia interspersed with bouts of bloody frenzy. i see kanly today in everything.
#FUZZYSNUGGLYDUCK
opinions are my own.
Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca
The sportscaster you loved, the newscaster you humored, the dog lover you grudgingly admired. All of the above now in a podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/countdownwithkeitholbermann
Just be cool, man.
Reporter: science, nature, agriculture, climate. Bylines at Scientific American, PopSci, Sierra, Slate, Fatherly, etc.
He/Him. RTs =/= Endorsement. Opinions solely mine. Old posts delete en masse.
Chicago
www.ethanpfreedman.com
Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR tinyurl.com/yxpvn488 (6/30 HarperCollins/Mariner)
Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Fmr: White House Senior Policy Advisor
Get in touch: fieldsmeyer.com
Writing: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
A grassroots effort to rediscover and champion principles in the 21st century #PrinciplesFirst
principlesfirst.us
PhD candidate at Glasgow University • Working on ethnographies, data justice, and sociomaterial approaches to research
Unapologetically normie aesthetics.
Lover of Worker Coops.
More unions is more better.
LVT enjoyer.
Tool library hype.
Part time Wikipedia editor.
Also love MST3K, Rifftrax, Last Drive In, Svengoolie, Elvira, USA Up All Night and similar nonsense.
He/him
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policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Author: Karla’s Choice, Gnomon, Titanium Noir etc. Also husband, dad and occasional clothing-repairer, dog-walker, improviser of temporary solutions. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Greta not Peter. Cuan cuan.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Interim social media editor, Forward.com. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Philosophy lecturer. Soccer knower. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷
Political Philosopher | W Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt | extremely amateur self-taught guitarist
OU Associate Prof & Director of Grad Studies, Political Science; Community engagement+ experiments lab (CEEL); co-author of The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2022, Cambridge Uni Press).
Ex-CIA. Author of The Missionary Kids (out now!) Kid of missionaries 🇰🇪 Exvangelical. PhD historian.
https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com
@TheBulwark @Lawfare @liberalcurrents
Co-Host @DogShirtTV
Art For Democracy @ Etsy
#OneThing
Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
Attorney & advisor on industry, investment, & war. Formerly OSC, JSOC, NCTC, & 101st Abn. Hoya, Eli, Orange.
Co-host, “Second Breakfast” by China Talk.
Aspiring author, committed line holder.
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”
Historien.
Veille bibliographique.
The Trump DOJ called me a 'dope.' I write the 'Regular Order' newsletter and have covered Congress since the Reagan Administration. Sign up for more at http://jamiedupree.substack.com
technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
