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Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.

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Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: The Medal of Honor, Heroism, and Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century - Anthony King, Patrick Bury (@patrickbury.bsky.social), 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

13.12.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good news.πŸ‘‡ Next, start collecting address, basic medical fitness, skills and motivation data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15.01.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…

…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional β€˜game over’.

Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

05.02.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 2125 πŸ” 601 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
Tracking real-time billionaires Track billionaires in real-time, follow their huge fortunes and watch some deep analytics.

What about using the data from realtimebillionaires.de with OS location data to track billionaires on here?

04.02.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No point. Because Supreme Court. Its all over, baby blue.

04.02.2025 10:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How does a CIA psychotherapist respond to staff enquiry forms?
'You're insecurely attached.'

02.02.2025 09:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its perfectly fine to argue both Andy.

29.01.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mother - Kubb
Mother - Kubb YouTube video by otonoami

Probably the best John Lennon cover ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvrt...

29.01.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Intelligent life forms ultimately create the technologies that destroy them

27.01.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Band of Brothers-Speirs' "Hopeless War" Speech YouTube video by Christina Lim

This advice literally got me through our tour. And it rings true with current politics and life in general: β€œThe only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function…” www.youtube.com/watch?si=-tj...

26.01.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@mrjamesob.bsky.social you might like this πŸ‘‡

21.01.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ladies and gentlemen I give you #Democrauxcy

21.01.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

By the time you're sure its fascism its too late for sure

21.01.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The next pandemic will allow the president to bring in extraordinary measures

21.01.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its over. The money, the info environment and the organisation. Now they want you to detune.

21.01.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk accused of giving β€˜Nazi salute’ at Trump inauguration celebration The world’s richest man drew a ton of attention over an ill-advised β€˜salute’ he did on stage, with many likening it to a Nazi gesture

These guys are coming for Starmer, UK and German politics next. Once they get in they are not coming out. You have been warned. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

21.01.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? - War on the Rocks Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of

▢️ 'The Long Shadow of the Soviet Sabotage?’, War on the Rocks, shorturl.at/TLhT8

▢️ 'Russian Sabotage in the Gig-Economy Era', RUSI, co-authored @kloosha.bsky.social, @magslong.bsky.social & @patrickbury.bsky.social, shorturl.at/qp1Z9

@warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

06.01.2025 12:05 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's other things to do on these too... more details free to read here folks πŸ‘‡ 5/5 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

16.12.2024 11:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First, to increase recruits + force resilience; second, to collect the required data to establish the bones of a rapidly scalable mobilisation system; + third, to increase military–civilian ties, increase societal cohesion + resilience, + improve deterrence." 4/5

16.12.2024 11:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

national military service +/or conscription models that complement their professional volunteer forces. The British government should carefully consider the benefits + costs of integrating a hybrid recruitment approach in their force designs the Defence Review for 3 reasons: 3/5

16.12.2024 11:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

..self-sacrifice + intrinsic motivations that have traditionally underpinned military service + are present in the most motivated soldiers... Europe is increasingly ditching the AVF + coalescing around hybrid forms of force recruitment and retention, based on selective... 2/5

16.12.2024 11:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Across the West, the All Volunteer Force is dying. "Driven by increasing individualism associated with untethered consumerism + managerial capitalism... growing numbers of Western young peoples’ values are at odds with the values of collective community, patriotism... 1/5

16.12.2024 11:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The End of the All-Volunteer Force Due to wider social, cultural and economic change, British youth are less understanding and supportive of, and less motivated to serve in, the armed forces. Meanwhile, the British all-volunteer for...

Booom! "The End of the All-Volunteer Force:
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Recruitment and Love Selective Conscription" just dropped on
@RUSI_org Journal + free to read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.12.2024 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We need to get a grip of ASD in these units - as ASD = increased correlation of extreme behaviours. Its a team mgmt and personal awareness issue.

28.11.2024 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Like if you think a phased but complete smartphone ban is a good idea. Laptops and desktops fine.

26.11.2024 11:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the upside, no nukes likely yet!

23.11.2024 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A potentially very lethal missile to be fair

22.11.2024 13:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making the Most of Ukraine’s Freedom to Strike Russia ATACMS striking Russia provide an opportunity to inflict significant damage. To take advantage of this, however, the targets must align with a wider plan.

"...when it comes to deep strike, the lack of discipline in target selection often leads to a diffusion of effect such that the operational damage inflicted is less than the sum of the objects damaged or destroyed." rusi.org/explore-our-...

19.11.2024 15:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They are air launched tho?

19.11.2024 11:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't the Storm Shadow variant the 250km range variant?

19.11.2024 10:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0