Erin Burnett @erinburnett.bsky.social OutFront on CNN.
Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that's in-depth and informative. Erin Burnett OutFront airs weeknights at 7pm ET on @CNN and @CNNi.
Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication. 
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Catch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35pm ET on CBS and Paramount+ 📺 #Colbert linktr.ee/colbertlateshow
Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social War is bad. Books are good. He/him. STL. Go Cards. Let’s Go Blues. AllForCity
JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social US foreign assistance, infectious disease epidemiology, & a more perfect union 🫠 Bonus Texas/books/backpacking
MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.
Ivy J. @becauseivy.bsky.social Director & Editor, Berlin-ish now. The bittersweetness of being human, the profound magic in the mundane. Work: ivyjelisavac.com
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social 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
Steven Beynon @stevenbeynon.bsky.social National Security reporter ABC News | Afghan vet | Prev: Politico, Stars and Stripes, Fox 19 Cincinnati | Steve.Beynon@military.com | Adopt not shop | DM for Signal https://www.military.com/author/steve-beynon
Kara Dixon Vuic @karadixonvuic.bsky.social Historian of war and society @TCU. Author of “The Girls Next Door” and “Officer Nurse Woman”. Working on “Drafting Women”
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social 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.
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Andrew M Bell @andrewmbell.bsky.social Senior Research Scholar, Stanford CISAC
Law of armed conflict/IHL, military ethics, int'l security & law
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
S.W.B. Folsom @swbfolsom.bsky.social Award-winning author. Film and music enthusiast. Capable of holding two opposing ideas in my mind at the same time. Neither a tough guy nor a fool.
Rarely TwitterX; mostly Bluesky and Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/swbfolsom
Dr Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite FRGS @asgtypes.bsky.social Digital Editor, RUSI. Journalist. Photographer. Documentarian. Writer. Designer. Statistician. Past: FT, Condè Nast, GlobalData. Views are my own.
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/
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
Joanne Stocker @joannestocker.bsky.social Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
Dan Sukman @dansukman.bsky.social Author, Soldier, Hockey Player, Daler, Strategist, JPME, JAWS, Essayons!
Jerad W. Alexander @jeradalexander.bsky.social Writer. Author of VOLUNTEERS: GROWING UP IN THE FOREVER WAR. Rep'd by Massie & McQuilkin.
Substack feed: https://tinyurl.com/mwezn823
Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social Father, veteran, author. All views my own, but they should be yours as well. Author of THE SHIP AND THE STORM: POEMS.
Riccardo Valle @vallericcardo.bsky.social Research analyst & security consultant focused on jihadism & security in Afghanistan, Pakistan and South & Central Asia.
Tara John @tarajohn.bsky.social Senior reporter at CNN covering international news and politics. When not doing that, I can be found in a park with my dog.
Nicholas Carl @nicholasacarl.bsky.social Assistant director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute | Managing joint research with ISW | Strategic and military analysis on Middle East and Indo-Pacific
Liz Dent @lizydent.bsky.social Senior Fellow @WashInstitute primarily covering U.S. foreign and defense policy towards the Gulf | Former DoD and State | @MiamiUniversity & @AU_SIS alum
Russell Worth Parker @russellworthparker.bsky.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.
James Gibney @jamesgibney.bsky.social editor at @opinion.bsky.social, ex-Atlantic, NYT, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, US Department of State, TNR, Wilson Quarterly, TWM. Seeking knowledge, entertainment, bad puns...Opinions my own.
Andrew Lebovich @andrewlebovich.bsky.social Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute. Post-doc with with the Danish Institute for International Studies. PhD in African History from Columbia University. Learning and writing about the Sahel, North Africa, and France.
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social Exec Director, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
War, justice, #civilianrights
David Fitzgerald @davidfitzgerald.bsky.social Historian of war, militarization and the US in the world at University College Cork.
Author of Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army betwen the Cold War and the War on Terror (https://cambridge.org/9781009235808). 
Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com Managing Editor @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Marine vet. National security reporter & editor. Former EIC @taskandpurpose.com. Founder of @duffelblog.com. More: https://www.paulszoldra.com
Brian Drohan @briandrohan.bsky.social US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
Peter Maass @maassp.bsky.social Recovering foreign correspondent slash war reporter. Author of “Love Thy Neighbor” and “Crude World.” Done time at the NYT, WP, Intercept.
Byron Hartman @byronhartman.bsky.social #ForeignPolicy, #NatSec, IR, international development. Diplomat/FSO, dad, ex-Army SOF intel. Currently in 🇳🇱, previously 🇹🇷🇧🇷🇩🇯🇮🇶🇦🇫🇩🇪 Português/Français/Türkce. Repost =/= endorse. Views my own.
Oliver Mizzi @ollymizzi99.bsky.social Journalist at The New Arab covering the MENA. Sussex and St Andrews alum. Finally got round to substack writing here: https://substack.com/@ollymizzi99 
Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social Strategist || Military Writers Guild Board Member || #MilSky Admin || Intersection of Foreign Policy, Conflict, Economics, Politics, History, and Writing || Non-partisan, but not amoral || Opinions my own.
Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social 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.
Ross @rossritchell.bsky.social Author of The Knife. PhDropout. Father to 6. Forever a PFC.
Azmat Khan @azmatzahra.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
Nerdy G.I. James 🤓🪖📚🧠🍺🥃🗳️ @nerdygi.bsky.social DoD InfoSys Modernization | Beer-Bourbon-Mead Tinkerer | @ncstate.bsky.social AROTC ‘94 & M.Ed. '22 🐺 | Ex-Army Intel @us_sams '08 | @VetTheVote | N.C. Election Official | Veteran Advocate
West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social Gen-X veteran, entrepreneur, intelligence professional, and writer
📍 New York City
🎓 University of Parris Island
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Blue Independent & LGBT Ally.
Pro-American Dream. Anti-Broligarchy
Allergic to intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, & all forms of bigotry.
@jonpcheatwood.bsky.social @jonpcheatwood.bsky.social californian working at the intersection of national security and emerging technology | views my own
Michael Brenes @mbrenes.bsky.social Historian at Yale.Non-Resident Fellow @cipolicy.bsky.social. New book: “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy.” Next: a history of the War on Terror for Grove Atlantic. Avi by @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social.
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. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social Atlantic Council Fellow | Military Writers Guild Board Member | Marine Corps Strategist Fellow at Notre Dame | CIMSEC Managing Editor | Personal Account
David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social 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
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Vera Bergengruen @verambergen.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at TIME Magazine
Talk to me ➡️ vera@time.com
Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein.bsky.social I cover media for New York Magazine
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
Joseph Trevithick @franticgoat.bsky.social ‘Punk' Journalist, Executive Editor
at The War Zone (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone), and defense and security analyst.
U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org An independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of seapower.
Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social legal affairs correspondent // The New York Times
first dot last at n y times dot com
Sune Engel Rasmussen @suneengel.bsky.social Security correspondent for WSJ and author of "Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation". Eyes on war, the Arctic, organized crime and terror. He/him.
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Combat Infantry Bunny @cibthebunny.bsky.social National Security Junkie. Veteran. Beagle Aficionado. Former Combat Infantry Bunny Caregiver. Traumatized DC Resident. Bluesky Lurker. Do you drink tea and support veterans? Then check out https://bsky.app/profile/rakkasantea.bsky.social
Rob Madole @robmadole.bsky.social Writer & translator in Berlin. ILLUSIONS by Ruth Rehmann forthcoming from Faber Editions
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social New York Times reporter
Email me at greg.jaffe@nytimes.com
Thomas Gregory @tom-gregory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR at Auckland University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Author of Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan https://shorturl.at/WsC02
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI, member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and former member of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board.
H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
http://www.hisutton.com/
Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.
Military Times @militarytimes.bsky.social Your trusted, independent source for news on issues affecting U.S. military members & families. Sign up for our newsletters: http://militarytimes.com/newsletters
Jen Judson @jenjudson.bsky.social Defense reporter at Bloomberg News, 115th National Press Club president, Military Reporters & Editors VP, boy mom, Colorado native
Travis J. Tritten @travistritten.bsky.social Former Deputy Managing Editor, Military.com. DC by way of Ohio, Florida, South Carolina and Japan.
2023 Ford Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Cassandra Vinograd @cvinograd.bsky.social Journalist | Now: @nytimes | Before: @60minutes @NBC @AP @WSJ | @pulitzercenter grantee
Kathleen J. McInnis @kjmcinnis1.bsky.social 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.
Mike Schmitt @mikeschmitt.bsky.social Professor of International Law, Reading University
Bryan Denton @bdentonphoto.bsky.social Current MSW candidate @fordham. Once upon a time award-winning photojournalist and photo editor for the @nytimes.
Chris Gordon @bychrisgordon.bsky.social Pentagon Editor/National Security Correspondent, Air & Space Forces Magazine AirandSpaceForces.com | Board, Military Reporters & Editors | Member, CFR | “Subject Matter Expert.” [Redacted] F-16D flight hours. | CGordon@afa.org/Signal chrisgordon.24
Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social Doctor of Wars. Former special assistant to Kofi Annan. Founder, the Center for Peace Diplomacy (CPD). Former prof at SIPA Columbia. Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, KCL. www.peace-diplomacy.org
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social Read my books: http://amzn.to/36pzbf9 Freelance editor, writer, poet, humorist. OEF veteran by way of BFE. Admin: The Aiming Circle. Opinions & jokes my own. https://linktr.ee/randysherpabrown
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Christopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany; Nonresident Fellow, Stimson Center
Frank Kuhn @frankkuhn.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher @PRIF.org // Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control // Cold War History // Military Technology, Operations and Strategy // Opinions my own
Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social Public historian; host of The Great War and Real Time History channels on Youtube via Real Time History; History lecturer; Host of the Both Sides of the Wire podcast via Battleguide Productions.
The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social "Always sniff the breeze"
Military strategist and historian, Germanic pagan, volunteer EMT, Neo-Beatnik, SLUF lover, Käfer driver
"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world"
Stephen Marrin @smarrin.bsky.social Full Prof at James Madison University & Director of Intelligence Analysis program. Former CIA analyst. Editor of journal Intelligence & National Security https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social CNN national security correspondent. Send tips/pics of your dog(s) to Natasha.bertrand@cnn.com
Signal: Natashabertrand.12
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/natasha-bertrand-profile
Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities.
www.info-res.org
Susannah George @sgreports.bsky.social The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, before that Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq.
Siobhán O’Grady @siobhanogrady.bsky.social Ukraine bureau chief @washingtonpost. It’s pronounced Sha-VON.
Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
Reuters @reuters.com 
Dr. Alexander S. Burns @kabinettskriege.bsky.social Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
Mark Leon Goldberg @markleongoldberg.bsky.social Veteran international affairs journalist. Editor, UN Dispatch. Host and founder, Global Dispatches. https://www.globaldispatches.org/ 
Adam Smith @adambikewrench.bsky.social Defence / History / Oceania / Wargaming
Former 8541, messenger, bikewrench and backcountry safety analyst
Massey CDSS alum