Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Sarah Elaine Harrison @seharrison7.bsky.social Nonresident Fellow @StimsonCenter
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social Modern Warfare | Defense & Military Analyst | Author of ‚How the United States Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory‘ Link: https://www.gady-consulting.com/
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Benjamin Farley @brfarley.bsky.social International law, law of armed conflict, national security law and policy, constitutional and criminal law.
https://footnotesflashpoints.substack.com/profile/posts
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
MTMcGurk @mtmcgurk.bsky.social Dad, Army Recruiter, aspiring historian, poetry book author: "To Be Continued;"
Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social Recovering attorney, former journalist, and lifelong history nerd. I enjoy interrupting the interrupters. Pretty knowledgeable about the car industry. Jewish of Polish/Ukrainian descent. Married to a bona fide civil rights lawyer.
He/him
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social I cover workers for the NY Times. New Book: "Mutiny, the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610814/mutiny/
David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social Sometimes lawyer. Sometimes law professor. All the time awesome. Associate Prof. at Lewis & Clark Law (con law and anti-discrimination). http://dsadevil.blogspot.com
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Patrick Porter @patporter76.bsky.social Prof, Int Security, @unibirmingham. Contributing ed, @TheCriticMag. @RUSI_org. @CatoFP. @RANDEurope. The Case for Realism, Stanford UP. Book on Churchill w/Polity, on the way. 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
Craig Whiteside @craigwhiteside.bsky.social teach for the Naval War College resident program at NPS in Monterey, CA; The ISIS Reader (Hurst 2020) and Non-state Special Operations (Routledge, 2025); dad, scout, sports fan, and Geronimo https://theisisreader.substack.com/
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social 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
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
@LemonSlayer @lemonslayer.bsky.social When you're handed lemons, make lemonade!
Veteran & Progressive.
Like nearly everyone, a Subject Matter Generalist (SMG) on most things.
Trevor Ball @easybakeovensz.bsky.social Weapons Technical Analyst at Armament Research Services (ARES). Previously Bellingcat, US Army EOD.
Amy J. Nelson @amyjnelsonphd.bsky.social Foreign Policy & National Security
Nuclear and AI Futures
Senior Fellow, Future Security Program, New America
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University
Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social Former DoD, VA and FEMA senior official. Defender of the Constitution, Rule of Law, and Democracy
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Russ Feingold @russfeingold.bsky.social Wisconsin progressive, born and raised.
Working with the Campaign for Nature to protect the earth's land and water.
#nature #biodiversity #oceans #wildlife
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers
Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social I am professor of political science at Stanford University and an avid nature photographer. All views are my own. More photos at https://kenschultz.smugmug.com 
Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social Associate professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University. Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy. Assoc. Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies. Formerly The Guardian & Latin America advisor, Bernie Sanders. 교포
michaelpaarlberg.org
Paul D. Williams @pdwilliamsgwu.bsky.social Professor of International Affairs.
Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social VAP at Emory Political Science. Until recently, Associate Professor at UTRGV. I study justice, democracy, political identity, and law. But mostly post about women's football and my dog.
Uppsala, Sweden
Anne Likuski @annelikuski.bsky.social Formerly Anne Stenersen. Historian specializing in militant Islamism. Author of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Al-Qaida after 9/11 (I.B. Tauris, 2026)
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social US foreign assistance, infectious disease epidemiology, & a more perfect union 🫠 Bonus Texas/books/backpacking
Ross Caputi @rosscaputi.bsky.social 
New America @newamerica.org We are generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America.
Faisal @faisalahali.bsky.social Freelance journalist reporting on Somalia and East Africa.
🔗 https://www.aljazeera.com/author/faisal-ali
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Wassim NASR @simnasr.bsky.social Journaliste spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes FRANCE24
Senior Research Fellow Soufan Center
Auteur de « État islamique, le fait accompli » (Plon)
الناسُ صِنْفانِ: مَوتَى في حَياتِـهِمُ/ وآخَرونَ بِبَطْن الأرضِ أحْـيـاءُ
Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social Pod Save the World. NYT opinion. MSNBC. Author: After the Fall and The World As It Is
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social Working @gdp-center.bsky.social for a global economy that advances development and addresses climate change. Past: Oxfam, Yale Law, Benin. Views my own. Subscribe to my Substack: timhirschelburns.substack.com
IOM Somalia @iomsomalia.bsky.social Working with and for migrants, refugees and displaced communities in Somalia, and supporting the Government of Somalia build climate resilience and tackle climate mobility.
Somalia Newsroom @somalianewsroom.bsky.social #Somalia and #EastAfrica Social and Political Blog
Inquiries: tres(at)somalianewsroom.com
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Jethro Norman @jethronorman.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
Conflict, security and development.
& occasionally Cricket, rugby and football.
Afshon Ostovar @osto.bsky.social Historian of the recent past | Naval Postgraduate School | FPRI | Opinions are mine & don't reflect any org. New Book: Wars of Ambition https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Ambition-United-States-Struggle/dp/0190940980/ 
Andrew Kydd @andrewkydd.bsky.social Political science, game theory, music, wooden boats, vintage airplanes and motorcycles.
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Airwars @airwars.bsky.social The civilian harm watchdog.
We also run the Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social
Donate: http://airwars.org/about/donate
U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org The United States Institute of Peace is a premier peacebuilding organization. Congress founded USIP in 1984 as an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting peace by preventing, mitigating and resolving violent conflict abroad. www.usip.org
Alec Worsnop @aworsnop.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UMD School of Public Policy. I study military power and civil-military relations, mainly in insurgent groups. www.alecworsnop.com
Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati (t.co/uWXN1eLc0u). PhD. 25+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at University of San Francisco.
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social Int'l human rights lawyer at Guantanamo & ICC. Penn Law prof. Chai, cheese, and hotteok connoisseur. I had hot sauce in my bag long before Beyoncé. No DoD opinions here; reposts are not confirmation/denial of classified info. She/Her
Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Center for Security & Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit & Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social President, @civildefenseinst.bsky.social
Former J6 Committee Senior Professional Staffer & principal drafter of committee’s final report. Exec. Editor @justsecurity.org. Fan of Tom Paine.
Texas National Security Review @tnsr.org A rigorous, policy-relevant journal on national & international security, brought to you by The University of Texas System | tnsr.org
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
Sean D. Naylor @seandnaylor.bsky.social Co-founder of @thehighside.bsky.social; author of "Not a Good Day to Die" and "Relentless Strike;" previously a staff writer at Army Times, Foreign Policy and Yahoo News; other work in The New York Times and Newsweek.
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
Daniel Y. Chiu @dycinwdc.bsky.social Vice President & Director of Research, Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at IDA.org & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy #OSD44 at www.Defense.gov
“si vis pacem, studium bellum”
"we're all in it together" - H. Tuttle
F/L/P/RP≠E
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social Reporter covering gender and politics at @motherjones.com, part of the Center for Investigative Reporting
Tips to mpauly at motherjones dot com
Signal: madisonpauly.15
https://www.motherjones.com/author/madison-pauly/
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Trump Litigation Bot @trumplitigation.bots.law Real-time updates on the latest filings in cases challenging Trump administration executive actions. Sponsored by @lawfare.bsky.social
Curated by @annahickey.bsky.social and @tylermcbrien.bsky.social
https://bots.law/little-cases/trump-litigation-bot
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social 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- Z 📰 @zakeriye.bsky.social Journalist.
Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
Caleb Weiss @calebweiss.bsky.social Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
Harun Maruf @harunmaruf.bsky.social VOA journalist, writer, #Arsenal fan, community-level soccer player
Dr Brianna Rosen @briannarosen.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Director, AI and Emerging Tech Initiative at Just Security | Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford | Formerly White House NSC
Website: www.drbriannarosen.com
Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social DMV 🦀
academic grumpy cat, member AAUP.
Research US militias, Christian Right, Northern Ireland, & #DC metro. words in Political Research Associates/Public Eye, Greater Greater Washington, and Streetsense DC.
Love ocean creatures 🐳🦈🐙
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group. https://t.co/5NNXBYA2ec
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
Jeff Meiser @jwmeiser.bsky.social Former war college professor NDU now UPortland. Posts on politics, IR, strategy, hip hop. Book: Power and Restraint. My views rep only me.
Eric Robinson @ericrobinson.bsky.social associate director @ RAND | defense strategy | data science | special operations | former OSD policy | usual caveats
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Luke Hartig @lukehartig.bsky.social President, Gravity Research. Executive Editor, Just Security. Commissioner, Afghanistan War Commission. All opinions my own. Go Pads!
Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social CIA analyst, 2003-14. Close Guantanamo. Human Rights. China. My posts reflect only my views.
Dave Philipps @davephilipps.bsky.social National military correspondent for The New York Times
Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social 23 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.
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷