The Certified Letter @mrliam.bsky.social Third Amendment advocate. Former pitchman for Ironstone Bench Scrapers. Long time caller, first time listener. Protecting America from bed and breakfast. And tiramisu. Making the world safe for nepo babies.
Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social Mil-Poster, Black 'n Arab, Unapologetic NATO Shill, Progressive. Proud Canadian; Patch Guy 🇦🇬🇱🇧
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social 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
Ad astra per aspera
Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social Investigator & trainer at Bellingcat
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social Former contributor to Areo Magazine, currently in Liberal Currents. Feeling good these days. Writes about history, philosophy and international relations. If i’m acting like a jerk tell me to log off! Enjoys 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️perspectives…
Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social Fed defense university faculty, Security Cooperation pro, international relations, diplomacy, diverse democracy enjoyer, some boardgames and MtG, human
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Anthony Rodin @greatpowerclimate.bsky.social Full Professor of Political Science atSNU, focus on climate change and great power conflict.
“Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Great Power Conflict and Climate Change” coming soon! https://tinyurl.com/2hxmenve
Tom Waldman @tom-waldman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University | War, Strategy, Security | Author of ‘Vicarious Warfare’ http://bit.ly/3jTF632
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
For defense-related stuff
Site: https://defensearchives.com/news
John Ridge 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @johnridge.bsky.social Physics | Weapons Systems | National Security | Foreign Policy | Arms Exports | Security Assistance | Tochnyi Contributor | Donate to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
JOverton1847 @seapowerbom.bsky.social Editor of Seapower by Other Means, friend of small trees and small dogs. All opinions my own
Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social China, PLA, Taiwan, defense, & nukes | IAF @CFR.org | Opinions mine
Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
The Athletic @theathletic.com Get every sports story that matters.
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social "A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
Subscribe to my newsletter "The Smotus Report" about US politics in an endangered democracy: http://smotus.substack.com
Robert Mihara @mihara99.bsky.social Veteran, father, and advocate.
Views expressed here are mine alone and not necessarily those the Office of the Mayor or City Council of San Antonio.
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Ashley Salazar @ashleysalazar.bsky.social President Veterans For Peace St. Louis @vfpc61.bsky.social USAF Veteran
Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
Roger Misso @rogermisso.bsky.social Dad. Navy vet. Helping the good ones get elected, serve, and lead. Ran for Congress. 35x marathon runner. Working defense, innovation, and resilience.
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.
Jack McCain @mccainjack.bsky.social “That guy”
Adin Dobkin @adindobkin.bsky.social Writer + Teacher · Sprinting Through No Man's Land and These Bones Can Speak (forthcoming) · adindobkin.com
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social 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/
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
John Allen Gay @johnallengay.bsky.social Executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society. Interested in Iran, the Middle East, and U.S. foreign policy.
Han Kang @hanndhk.bsky.social PhD student in Political Science @UofT. I work mainly on sex and the state, occasionally on East Asian intellectual history! 🏳️⚧️👽
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Patrick Cronin @patrickmcronin.bsky.social Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute &
Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Brad Howard @bradhoward.bsky.social
usual caveat - views here are my own & off the clock - PDX
12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social No Official Statements // Diversity is Our Strength // Security Cooperating / Foreign Area'ing / AvFID. Spinny aircraft. Paman Bagus. @Strategy_Bridge. "A shifty-eyed Walker named Milligan saved them all..."
Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com Mostly mentoring a group of postdocs.
Conceptual Investigations Unit, housed at Stanford.
Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures.
climate / energy / etc
https://ciunit.org
Posts imperfectly represent the views of my former self and not my employer.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Paul Cormarie @paulcormarie.bsky.social RAND Analyst | European defense & nukes | 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Dr. Danielle Lupton @proflupton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. Come for the politics, stay for the pop culture and dog photos. She/Her. All views are my own.
www.daniellelupton.com
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.com Husband, father, UMD MBA, recovering political junkie, former 68W, current EMT. @U2 fan. Grateful @Heidijschmidt.bsky.social puts up with me. What's next?
Michael C. Davies @blobodelendaest.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Defence Studies, KCL. Strategic Victory in theory and practice. Lessons from Wars of 9/11.
Purveyor of Mission Accomplished banners
Jill Goldenziel @jillgoldenziel.bsky.social 🇺🇸International & Constitutional Law & Leadership Professor, National Defense University
💡Strategic Advisor to Business & Government Leaders
🎤Speaker
👩🏽💻Columnist @forbes @bloombergopinion
❗️Personal Account
Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine, Toronto Star and more, author of three books, and the River-Daughter. 🇨🇦
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Jess Blankshain @profjessblankshain.bsky.social Professor, mom, triathlete, dog person, Swiftie. US foreign policy, civil-military relations, & bureaucratic politics. Personal views only. Posts before 9/23/23 are imports from the other place.
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
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/
Michael C. Horowitz @mchorowitz.bsky.social Professor @Penn @perryworldhouse. Senior Fellow @CFR. Former DASD for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. Defense, #AI, and innovation. Always Boston. Views my own.
Paul D. Miller @pauldavidmiller.bsky.social I post about politics, religion, national security, movies, my kids. I'm a professor, writer, and veteran. Did time with US Army, CIA, and NSC. Author: https://www.amazon.com/stores/-/author/B00E68TNX2
Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy
at the U.S. Army War College. Indo-Pacific & Eurasian Security, Strategy, and Development Politics.
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.
Robert Ralston @robertralston.bsky.social Lecturer (assistant prof) at University of Birmingham. Grand Strategy; Politics of Decline/Declinism; Civil-Military Relations
https://sites.google.com/view/robert-ralston/home
Jeff Pugh @jpugh00.bsky.social Dad, peacebuilder, UMass Boston migration & conflict resolution prof, Latin Americanist. Southern exile. Author: The Invisibility Bargain (Oxford University Press 2021).
Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf Infosec. Professor. Studies Conflict, Cyber, and Influence Operations. Also, Emergency Management, Community Resilience and Weather. Optimist. Christian, but not a jerk about it. Fella from way back. Tries to be a helper. He/Him
Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social Ex-CIA, Ex-RAND, ex-historian. I post on things related to defense, national security, Africa (esp. the Sahel), and all things French military. Sometimes troll antisemites.
Jason Davidson @profjwdavidson.bsky.social Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council/ Prof at U of Mary Washington
Research on NATO/ Transatlantic Security
Trying not to suck at bike racing
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
max seddon @maxseddon.bsky.social moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
Alex Ward @alexward.bsky.social National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
Steve Foster @slfoster22.bsky.social Husband, GirlDad, Soldier-thinker || Recovering XO || Strategist in a Tactical World || GMU @ScharSchool MPP || Opinions Mine and Not Representative of Army or DoD
A. de la Paz @adelapaz.bsky.social Asst. prof, BUPardeeSchool | PhD, Columbia PolSci | war, history, international law and ethics, human foibles, and more | columbia.edu/~ad3085/
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Steve Bolton @srbolton.bsky.social Traveller, soldier, leader, mentor, daredevil gravelleur. Serving & growing the next gen of Army leaders. Campaign capable, comfortable w/ ambiguity. Let’s talk history, strategy, SOF, & sosh. Likes: bikes, books, bourbon, & whatever blows your hair back.
War Studies @warstudies.bsky.social Government defence official who holds PhD in War Studies and publishes in various academic and policy venues. 
Brian Nemhauser @hawkblogger.com Credentialed Journalist, NYT Best-Selling Author, #1 Seahawks Podcast on Apple/YouTube/Spotify. Donated over $320K to charity. Links: https://linktr.ee/hawkblogger
Jordan Becker @jordanbecker.bsky.social I teach and do social science, and direct a social science research lab @WestPoint. Personal account; I'm in the Army but don't speak for it here! @CSDS Brussels; IHEDN Chaire ECODEF
https://www.westpoint.edu/social-sciences/profile/jordan_becker
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
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
WhatsApp 📱: https://bit.ly/4h0M5FQ
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Clément Renault @clementrenault.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social 🕵️🛰️📡 · Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk · Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po - Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 📚
Website: https://clementrenault.com
Pete Strzok @petestrzok.bsky.social 26 year FBI and Army veteran. Georgetown School of Foreign Service adjunct professor and alum. NYT/WP bestseller: Compromised
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
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Huw J. Davies @huwjdav.bsky.social Professor of British Military History @kcl.ac.uk | Associate Dean Professional & Online Education SSPP | Award-Winning Book: Wandering Army | Next one: Forging Armageddon @YaleBooks.bsky.social | FRHistS
Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social He/him. Appa. Cat dad. Former infantry person, current food/wine person. Ally. Equality for all, no exceptions. LFC Reds. Oxford comma. 2 spaces. Confederates = traitors. Punch Nazis. Trump/Putin/ICE Delenda Est
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia.
Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods.
Past: RAND and CPOST.
Wolves. Lynx.
www.erikemueller.com
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
James "Pigeon" Fielder @drpigeon.bsky.social PhD Pol Sci | studying politics of game worlds at CSU | retired USAF | TEDx speaker | Mobius Worlds Publishing birb | Pagan & synth fan | pigeons rock!
https:\\www.jdfielder.com
Nerdy G.I. James 🤓🪖📚🧠🍺🥃🗳️ @nerdygi.bsky.social Veteran Advocate | Beer-Bourbon-Mead Tinkerer | @ncstate.bsky.social AROTC ‘94 & M.Ed. '22 🐺 | Ex-Army Intel @us_sams '08 | @VetTheVote.bsky.social | N.C. Election Official
Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social Prof of international relations at U of Louisville and co-director, Center for Asian Democracy. SABR member, Jayhawk hoops fan, film buff, & beer snob.
Pictured: Committee meeting in the Netherlands as depicted by Rembrandt.
Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social Associate Professor in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, (post-)Soviet wars.
Zak Taylor @mzak.bsky.social Prof. of public policy at Georgia Tech. My posts don't represent my university or USG. They are random reads & vents that I find interesting or provocative.
Kelly Grieco @kellygrieco.bsky.social Senior Fellow StimsonCenter, Adjunct GeorgetownCSS, Non-Res Fellow The Krulak Center
Foreign/defense policy, alliances, airpower, and mil ops. Proud Bostonian