B. A. Friedman

CEO, @outinnatsec.bsky.social · Cask-strength gay · Homosexual professional / professional homosexual 🏳️‍🌈 · Monitoring straight culture since 1999 · Books, comics, policy, and whatever else I feel like

Official Bluesky account for MLBTradeRumors.com.

The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.

lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers

Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.

Landlocked sailor hoping to get back to sea. I grew up in Albuquerque and I consider it my hometown. I really miss the Pacific Northwest though. Big hearted fella.

The official Bluesky account of https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense. We'll be posting some of the best posts from the subreddit to here.

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China, PLA, Taiwan, defense, & nukes | Liberal natsec-type | Opinions mine

Former cartographer, ballroom dance pro, tanguero, cyber security professional. Currently a strategy consultant. Volunteers in the USCG Auxiliary. PhD in Politics, University of Leicester. Expertise in MOOTW.

I wish we are meeting under a better bridge. Idiot, marine, engineer. have you seen my m240?

Covering Congress and the defense industry for breakingdefense.com, but also destroying your feed with cat photos, aviation memes and ramblings about fandoms you couldn't care less about

Writer and editor. TWZ. Military aerospace and air warfare, mostly. Contact me: t.newdick (at) http://gmail.com. RT, like ≠ endorsement.

🇲🇺 born and bred. Marxo-Sufi, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Tolkien, Hugo Pratt, Dire Straits. Former journalist, teacher, copywriter and twice a foreign fighter. Now a tri-national privateer and gun runner. Heartless scoundrel who aspires to be a gentleman.

Got enough exp to talk USAF, C2, Ukraine, China, Coffee.

A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com

Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.

Military analyst, naval officer, based in Denmark, mostly #Russia and the war in #Ukraine. YouTube: https://youtube.com/@anderspuck Newsletter: https://www.logicofwar.com

Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her. Lucy Calkins' #2 hater Play it fucking loud.

US Marine vet. Described as “mildly interesting and not entertaining” by my kids. Miami (OH), Ohio Univ. Followed only by bots.

Husband, father, historian, USMC Vet (OEF & OIF), USNA Asst. Prof Views and opinions are mine alone Author of The Globe and Anchor Men https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636259/

Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.

Retired Army Officer. Writer. Novelist. Sufferable Texan. Jiu Jitsu student. Opinions are mine alone.

I post things that I find interesting (mostly about aviation and defence), while referencing sources and providing context. Piraeus, Greece.

Liberal Republic NatSec, Defense, aerospace (and Star Wars). Views do not represent those of my employer, the Jedi Counsel, nor its customers. (he/him)

Family Med/Flight Surgeon, lover of EBM, POCUS, and fast pointy jets.

Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security. Author of "Planning for Protraction" and "Iron Imperator."

A family man, life interest in our RN, military history, strategy, past book reviewer & day skipper, enjoyed a City life lost to a spinal injury. ☝️ Dad as Navigator Observer sat behind the pilot Joe Liddle in their FAA Tarpon/Avenger.

Student of the dark art of operational warfare

World events in bigger context | Hosted by Aaron Ellis https://linktr.ee/strategyaaron

National baseball reporter for the Washington Post

world's foremost hippopotamus appreciator.

Moodboard of late empire. Friction is foreplay for the strategically inclined.

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”

Christian Retired US naval flight officer, husband,father, grandfather, military & naval historian.

the middle of the venn diagram that is national security issues + geek culture. hellsite veteran. chaotic disaster bisexual. she/her. (header image by a softer world)

A maritime history podcast!⚓ shipwrecksandseadogs.com youtube.com/@shipwreckspod patreon.com/shipwreckspod intohistory.com/shipwreckspod

Sirens, a new podcast from the ladies of Bombshell, dissects the institutions of American power. With their trademark wit and charm, they sound the alarm on technology, governance, and national security issues. (And maybe lure men to their deaths.)

Dedicated to Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), a top-secret unit that carried out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches during the Second World War. Website: coppsurvey.uk

Marine, combat vet. Apparently also woke and an enemy of the state now? Huh. Here to call out disinformation. And to, you know, obey my oath. ETA: And maybe to NOT share classified info via Signal chats.

historian and philologist rare books and manuscripts cataloguer putting the t back into incunabula since 2025 danubius me tollit, sprea me vocat

Wannabe novelist, foul mouthed story teller, dad and recovering dirtbag I sometimes write something interesting at: https://in-the-pines.ghost.io

Enquiries: DM Military Historian, 'valuable' according to IWM Jocks, Dragons & Sospans (2024) Normandy 1944 specialist

Correspondent at The New York Times

Just a poor wayfaring stranger, traveling through this world of woe. https://www.macwilliambishop.com/

Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping

Historian. Author: Air Force Way of War, Architect of Air Power, Air Power's Lost Cause, Fighting From Above, and The Sundowners. Series w/ @KentuckyPress and editor: @Balloons2Drones.

Military Historian. Writing a book on Economic Statecraft and Money as a Weapon of War (OUP, 2026). Strategy. Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.

Military Historian & Analyst | Author, 'Eagle Days: Life & Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain' (out now!) | Broadcaster | RAF Charitable Trust & National Spitfire Project Ambassador | Rep: Georgina Capel | spitfirefilly@outlook.com

makes books, reads different books

Researching US-China in outer space and nuclear politics at the University of Copenhagen. https://ritualdeterrence.eu/

Associate Professor in International Relations and Head of Department, University of Reading. Causation, theory, war, foreign policy, and more. Dad to amazing soon-to-be-teenage twins. Generally trying to work life out.

Old USN dude, OEF & Desert-Sx; now middle management. Geek, writer, cynic, interracial adoptive father. Member of the Pact Act club. Appalachian in exile. Erudite shitkicker, always looking for suspects.

Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact

The army once paid me to write some papers, now I think people care about my thoughts...

I use alternate history and fake maps to talk about real history. Hosted by Matt Mitrovich (he/him). Proud Chicagoan. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thealternatehistorian Email: ahwupdate at gmail dot com

🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Anonymous Marine and occasional lawyer Still not ADSEP'd When I'm not griping about my new boss, I like classical music, Kansas City sports, and niche regional foods (views mine, not of DoD)

Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.

Defense Lead, Bloomberg Economics; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense, CNAS. Views are my own.

Politics, Music and Sports

Former officer in the Belgian Navy, freelance writer for Marineschepen.nl and Naval News.

Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing) I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal. (He/Him) https://www.offensive-bias.com/

Director, Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at IDA.org & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy #OSD44 at www.Defense.gov @mcgill.ca @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social “si vis pacem, studium bellum” F/L/P/RP≠E

Pediatric intensivist. Assistant professor. Army officer. Husband. Father. Waffle expert. Opinionated.

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

Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader. For defense-related stuff Site: https://defensearchives.com/news

🇨🇦 Army (armour, 25 yrs, 4 x tours, injured & medically retired), MA Strategic Studies, hate partisan politics. Defence, national security, Ukraine & intl affairs. NAFO Fella. My serious commentary is on Substack: https://blackcloudsix.substack.com

Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴 Author Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar PhD candidate KCL Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…

Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Military Technology at RUSI, London. Associate Professor II at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy. Pilot. Views are my own. RUSI biography and publications: https://t.co/wgeOUvRQdO

Peanuts, metal (music), nicotine, caffeine, auto, history, and strategy enthusiast. Ardently contrarian. Views my own. Follow/Repost/Comment ≠ endorsement.

Hoosier alum. Spartan PhD. Studying IR/FP. Cat person. Suffering Angels fan. Teaches at Allan Hancock College. Lives by the beach in Central California (Lompoc).

Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory. Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social

Guardians reporter for MLB.com. As seen Marquee Sports Network, NBC Sports Chicago

The Swedish Defence University contributes to national and international security through research and education. We are a specialised university that focuses on defence, crisis management and security. https://www.fhs.se/en/swedish-defence-university

Reporter with USNI News, covering the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard. Focused on personnel, medicine and seas with colors in their names. American U, MIT alumna. Ice skater who bakes. Tips: hmongilio@usni.org, Signal: @HMongilio.52

Mom of Teddy, George, and Ellie. Wife of Erik. Former Marine. F/A-18 pilot. Proud American. Proud Kentuckian.

Cleveland Landscape Photographer • Prints, 2026 Cleveland Calendars, Cleveland Photo Books and more available at www.gabewasylko.com

Professor at the US Army War College. Transatlantic relations and European security. Views posted here are my own.

"Simplify, then add lightness” - Colin Chapman

Host On Offense Pod. Cohost Find Out Podcast. CEO Task Force Butler + Veterans Fighting Fascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (http://vva.org/trollreport). Yes, the Nazi hunter you’ve been looking for. linktr.ee/krisgoldsmith

Browns, Cavs and Guardians for The Athletic. Also: Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, 92.3 The Fan, WKYC Cleveland

Cleveland. The Athletic.

Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow. Plot twist: not from Åland. 📸 Stas Kartashov ✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander

By day: CEOs and corporate boards. By night: Doctoral student at Northeastern University. Even later at night: Historian and writer. Chef and baker. Muddling photographer. Woodworker who somehow still has all his fingers. Manservant to a cavapoo.

Seapower and aerospace enthusiast. Sometime photographer. Infrequent traveler. Ex-Space Shuttle door gunner.

Ex-journalist writing a shitty novel. Key West literary beach bum. Anti-fascist Leftist. Cleveland guy in Detroit. Filled with japery, rage, soup. Libertine degenerate descended from Welsh coal miners. Unhinged. No gods, no kings. Essays: Billshea.com

Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos http://www.hisutton.com/

Associate professor at the University of Waterloo (Canada); visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin (Poland); and author of Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century (Polity, 2022). www.alexlanoszka.com

Pod: Past Lives. Tides of History. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. Coming 5/5/2026: “Lost Worlds,” on prehistory. pwymanusc at gmail. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman

MA in History. Studies intelligence, sea power, air power, and the Asia-Pacific War. Researching U.S. intelligence assessments of Japanese air and sea power, 1919-1941. Andor appreciator, PC gamer, mediocre miniature painter, and musician.

The Society for Military History and the Journal of Military History's Official Bluesky Page. Posts by @awilks.bksy.social

Writer. Editor in Chief of The Tom Beckbe Field Journal and Lethal Minds Journal. Retired Marine. Strong opinions on Labradors, breakfast, music, and bbq. Pretty flexible otherwise.

Active duty Marine working at HQMC. Native NYer, Canisius College and BU alum, long suffering Buffalo sports fan.