James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social Analyst focused on #Yemen, #Iran, #Houthis, Gulf, with a focus on geopolitics and Shia transnational networks. Interested in understanding how narratives fuel conflict, sustain power, and shape the regional order. Author of The Ideology Machine on Substack
Networking European Security Knowledge (NetSec) @netsec-cost.eu An inclusive, multidisciplinary network bridging Europe's intellectual and analytical communities on security, across academia, policy, and practice. https://netsec-cost.eu is COST Action CA24154, running from October 2025 to October 2029.
Basha باشا @bashareport.bsky.social Basha Report Risk Advisory 🇺🇸 #Libya #Iraq #Syria #Iran #Yemen #Lebanon #Sudan #GCC #SupplyChain #Maritime #CT #ITN #VEO | https://bashareport.substack.com
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.
Andrea Pezzati @andreapezzati.bsky.social Intelligence analyst. I look at Google Maps, MarineTraffic, FlightRadar24. Shipping, aviation, geopolitics. Recently returned to Bluesky and not sure for how long.
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. cannot overstate the degree to which this is a personal account
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS) @eissnetwork.bsky.social The #EISS is a multidisciplinary Europe-wide network of scholars that share the goal of consolidating #securitystudies in Europe.
https://eiss-europa.com
Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Literature in Tucson | Surveillance Studies | C20 Caribbean and Brit Lit
Books: Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024) | The Call (2019)
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
Sascha Simon @saschasimon.bsky.social Security & Defence Analyst | drones, emerging/disruptive tech & foresight | formerly 🇪🇺 EUISS & EDA, NATO Innovation Hub & 🇩🇪 MFA.
*Here privately*
Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social Executive Publisher at T&F. ❤️ 🐕 🍩 🍨 ☀️ #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen.
Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social Here to help you to publish and make an impact with your research.
Sébastien Meinbach @sebmeinbach.bsky.social Political analyst.
Journaliste dans une autre vie.
Björn Müller @bjoernm.bsky.social Journalist - focal point #securitypolitics - editor for @loyalmagazin.bsky.social. Occasionally taz, IP, Soldat & Technik and others.
My blog: www.pivotarea.eu
Bob @bobherc.bsky.social War Studies at KCL alum.
Cyber, Maritime, CNI Defense.
Journalism, Film, Music.
I know a lot about cocktails.
ILoF.- C @conaljarvis.bsky.social @conaljarvis.bsky.social U of T CERES 2025
Great king, strong king, king of the Four Corners, king of the Universe
DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social UK/US Politics - Climate Change is not a debate Disinformation is killing democracy & our planet Anti-Racist Anti-Fascist Feminist UBI 🌍🔥
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
minimme @minimme.bsky.social 
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Prof Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social Academic researcher in intelligence and security, currently Dean of Faculty, but posting in a personal capacity. Poor standard runner. Excitable cricketer. Prone to crunchy deductions....
Bart Thijssen @bartthijssen.bsky.social Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
Iona Craig @ionacraig.com Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula since 2010. Once-upon-a-time I trained racehorses.
www.ionacraig.com
www.patreon.com/ionacraig
https://linktr.ee/ionacraig
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
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Adrian Florea @aflorea.bsky.social Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Indiana University PhD. Civil war. Separatism. De facto states. Rebel governance. War and state (un)making. Data. RT#endorsement. aflorea.weebly.com
Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social Prof of Human Rights and #IHL researching on redress, civilian harm, OSINT and AI, working on rewilding the north coast. Author of Algorithms of War (BUP 2026), Reparations and War (OUP 2023), and Justice for Victims at the ICC (2014).
R. Maxwell Bone @maxbone55.bsky.social Eyes on all things Africa, Human Rights and Democracy. Recovering Democracy & Governance Practitioner. MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Words in @foreignpolicy.com @wpr.bsky.social @newhumanitarian.bsky.social & elsewhere
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations (IR) at LSE IDEAS, managing LSE Ukraine programme. Book: Authoritarian Contagion. Find me on SubStack:
https://mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
Lisbeth Quass @lisbethquass.bsky.social Investigative journalist at DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12
Newsletter: letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com
Matt Heintz @heintz57.bsky.social MA student Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel. Aspiring intel analyst.
Strikepod Systems @strikepod.bsky.social Imagining micronaval warfare.
Harry Sanderson @dr-brightshirt.bsky.social Operational Research Analyst and Military Historian of the First World War. PhD on Soldiers' Training in the First World War.
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social Kyiv-based journalist with Lawfare. I go by Nastya
Co-host of ESCALATION, a podcast about 🇺🇸&🇺🇦
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Matthew Savill @mtsavill.bsky.social Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute; recovering former civil servant; all views expressed here are my own.
@raphaelparens.bsky.social @raphaelparens.bsky.social Eurasia and Africa Fellow at FPRI, views are my own
Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social Open Source Investigator | Sudan | Views are my own
Gert-Jan Dennekamp @gjdennekamp.bsky.social Reporter Dutch tv Nieuwsuur, previously in Moskou, Brussels, Netherlands, now mainly in Ukraine
Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social EU cultural/audiovisual policy & cultural diplomacy scholar | Part-time Prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social | Co-chair @forumukeu.bsky.social | Assembleia @partidolivre.pt | PT/UK | 📍London | https://mafalda-damaso.com | Views my own
Mathieu Olivier @matolivier.bsky.social Journaliste politique et d'investigation Rédacteur en chef adjoint
@jeune_afrique. Mail : olivier.mathieu@protonmail.com
Øystein H. Rolandsen @ohrolandsen.bsky.social Prof. at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) https://www.prio.org/people/4704
No glib quips, just a list of some interests: mediation, security assistance, organised violence, foreign interventions, culture, South/Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sahel.
Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social early modern Iberia & beyond | author: Arms & Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (U Toronto Press) | amateur aerialist, circus enthusiast, poetry fan
Andrew Farrand @afarrand.bsky.social MENA energy analyst | American abroad | author of The Algerian Dream, translator of Inside the Battle of Algiers
Ali Al-Sakani @alisakani.bsky.social Yemeni journalist 
@nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social Associate Professor at Polsci Leiden. Associate Editor at International Studies Review. Trained at Indiana University and Sciences-Po. IR, FPA, security, migration politics, India. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/nicolas-blarel#tab-1
Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social Trained journalist, Editor, documentary maker and sports commentator.
Ukraine expert. Numbers nerd.
Almost famous on Xitter!
Coffee donations accepted!
https://ko-fi.com/twmcltd 
Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
Shingo Masunaga (Ph.D.) @shingomasunaga.bsky.social Research Topic: The Interwar Japanese Intelligence Activities in the Baltic States and Finland.
Disclaimer: All views are my own.
Note: https://note.com/shinmas332
LazerPig @lazerpig.bsky.social The real LazerPig
it/that/Sir/Lord Admiral
Gay AF🏳️🌈
Youtuber
War Historian
Avid and enthusiastic Drunk
No, I cannot sell you Pizza🍕
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@LazerPig
Merch: https://nafo-ofan.org/collections/lazerpig-x-nafo
Somalia Newsroom @somalianewsroom.bsky.social #Somalia and #EastAfrica Social and Political Blog
Inquiries: tres(at)somalianewsroom.com
Charlie Werb @charliewerb.bsky.social Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly Sahel) | Terrorism | Conflict | Opinions are my own
Baptiste Robert @fs0c131y.com CEO @ Predicta Lab | French Security Researcher, Ethical Hacking, OSINT
Sophia Yan @sophiayan.bsky.social Telegraph Senior Foreign Correspondent | Marie Colvin Award Winner | Posts: 🌍🌏🌎🎹🎶🥃🍜🧘🏻♀️| Now: IST Then: TPE PEK HKG TYO NYC DCA HNL
Anna Schmauder @annateesch.bsky.social #Sahel Researcher & analyst working on armed groups + hybrid orders in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - currently adviser at http://stabilisation-platform.de/en / Non-Resident Fellow GPPi https://gppi.net/team/anna-schmauder/ thru-hiker 22/23
Roman Deckert @romandeckert.bsky.social Sudan|ese & SouthSudan|ese @❤️ since 1997, #Utopia #HighFidelity. #MediaDev @ MiCT. #Wikipedia 4☮️. Based in Versoix, Geneva.
Matthew K. Ribar @mattkribar.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in political science @weidenbaumcenter.bsky.social. I study the political economy of land, development, and informality in West Africa. https://matthewkribar.com/
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
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social Deputy Editor @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
Contact: arthur.scottgeddes@telegraph.co.uk
Previously in Germany and Pakistan
Free to read 🔓
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/
Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social Margo from Kyiv | telling you about war Russia threw on us | longer reads: margogontar.substack.com
support my reporting : via paуpal : contributeto762project@gmail.com & https://buymeacoffee.com/margogontar
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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
Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social visual investigations @nytimes / sanjana.varghese@nytimes.com
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and the Arctic | Vice President of Strategy, Emergent Risk International | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
Chris York @chrisdyork.bsky.social News Operations Editor, Kyiv Independent
Tse Yin Lee @leetseyin.bsky.social BBC Monitoring journalist following people for research
Sinikukka Saari @sinikukka.bsky.social Leading Researcher, Great Power Politics & Foresight, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
David Hamilton 🏴🇺🇦 @da.vidh.scot Scottish Information Commissioner.
Volunteer Aid Worker in Ukraine and Bosnia. Charity trustee 
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social Retired US State Dept guy, worked 10 yrs in PRC (Beijing and Chengdu), good at reading 'communist Chinese' Qiushi etc., now studying ancient Chinese and literature. Enjoy studying languages. Ham call WA1LBP.
Translation blog: gaodawei.wordpress.com
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Matt Fulton @mattfulton.net It's me, hi | Writer. Co-host, @secretsandspies.bsky.social | linktr.ee/fultonmatt
Ahmad Algohbary @ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social Freelance Yemeni journalist | Emmy & Sheffield nominee | OJAs winner | Covers Yemen/ME impartially. Occasionally shares personal views. Reposting ≠ endorsement.
https://buymeacoffee.com/ahmadalgohbary
Jürgen Nauditt @juergennauditt.bsky.social Here to help Ukraine. NAFO. 🇺🇦
Managing director. No AfD.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
@patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Beefeater 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 The Guardian of Facts 🫶 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beefeaterfella
https://beefeaterresearch.substack.com/
Benjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social Head of Policy & Analysis at Helsing - AI to Protect Our Democracies | Chair @DSI_Strategy |🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #NeoIdealism | Post=personal, Repost ≠ endorse. Views mine
Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social investigative journalist @ CORRECTIVㅣDowJones & WSJ alumㅣprevious work Lighthouse Reports, DW, Guardian, Wired and othersㅣOSINT, Tech, AI
Kylie Sertic @kyliesertic.bsky.social Studying Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Carter School at GMU. Formerly in journalism. Opinions my own. She/her
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
https://rupertbarretttaylor.com
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
Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator.
http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Matthew Moss - Armourer's Bench @matthewmoss.bsky.social Founder of www.HistoricalFirearms.info & www.ArmourersBench.com which explore the history, development & use of firearms. Co-host www.FightingOnFilm.com podcast.
Sébastien Roblin @sebastienroblin.bsky.social I write about defense, history and aviation for Popular Mechanics, 19Fortyfive, Forbes, CNN, NBC, Inside Unmanned Systems. In past, National Interest. Former Peace Corps China.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Marc Garlasco @marcgarlasco.bsky.social Chief of Assessments & Investigations of civilian harm at Department of Defense formerly DIA, HRW, CNA, PAX, UN war crimes investigator specialized in civilian harm mitigation and response. Writing in my personal capacity and not as DoD.