Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War @smhcentre.bsky.social The official feed for news and information about the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, King's College London.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sir-michael-howard-centre-for-the-history-of-war-3
King's Social Science & Public Policy @kingssocialscience.bsky.social Social science insights from the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London.
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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War @slaveryinwar.bsky.social The world’s first major initiative to address the gap between slavery and war - a partnership between King's College London & Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham to tackle a 5,000-year-old problem to transform its future.
Zoha Naser @zohanaser.bsky.social She/Her • PhD KCL War Studies • Interested in space power, nuclear & WMDs 🚀☢️ • All views are my own
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Defence Studies @dsdkings.bsky.social The Defence Studies Department at King's College London. World-leading research on #war & #conflict | Contact: comms-soss@kcl.ac.uk
Website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/dsd
Megan Hamilton @meganahamilton.bsky.social Historian • PhD student at King's College London & Imperial War Museum (CDP) • Researching SWW army training across the British Empire • 🇨🇦 living in 🇬🇧
P.J. Blount @blountsfolly.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Space Law - Durham University
https://www.blountsfolly.com
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Astropolitics Working Group @astropoliticswg.bsky.social We are the Astropolitics Working Group at the British International Studies Association (BISA). We are a group of mostly Politics/IR scholars focusing on or interested in space politics/security and adjacent fields. Webpage: https://tinyurl.com/yj7z3t3c
Professor Brooke Rogers OBE @profbrookerogers.bsky.social Professor of Behavioural Science & Security, Department of War Studies/School of Security Studies, King’s College London.
Deputy Executive Dean and Vice-Dean People & Planning in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. Views expressed are my own.
Mike O'Callaghan @space-mike.bsky.social
Airbus Defence and Space UK
Head of Novel Programmes
Interested in all things at the confluence of Defence and Space
Liz Brown @liz-brown.bsky.social PhD student, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social. Researching justice and accountability after war crimes allegations in Iraq & Afghanistan. 🇦🇺 in 🇬🇧
James Jefferies @jamesjhistory.bsky.social Aviation and Cultural Historian: The memory of the RAF in the Second World War. PhD student and Assistant Lecturer, University of Essex and Wolverhampton. Co-Presenter for @nmtdambusters.bsky.social pod.
Jeni Mitchell @jenimitchell.bsky.social Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London. Director, Future Threats Lab https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/future-threats-lab / Dep Director, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. Future war; 🚀 space; rebellion past and present; apocalypse(s)
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Defence Research Network @defenceresnet.bsky.social Interdisciplinary network of Masters, PhD & ECRs, focused on defence, security & military topics in relation to policy, strategy, history, culture & society.
War Studies @warstudieskcl.bsky.social The Department of War Studies at King's College London | Contact: comms-soss@kcl.ac.uk
Website: kcl.ac.uk/warstudies
Podcast: https://bit.ly/WarStudiesPodcast
Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social Astrophysicist @monashastro.bsky.social | Previously @ Northwestern & UMN | తెలుగు | Gravitational waves | @LIGO | LISA
Decarbonization now ✊🏽
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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social “Very Respected Science Person” -NBC News
🔴 Former science operations for NASA Mars missions
🛰️ Current space sector strategist & author advocating for Earth
🌎 Based in Ottawa but often found on a train
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Mariam Naseem @spacenaseem.bsky.social 🌟#SPACE for ALL 🚀
🪐Planetary Geo PhD @univofmaryland
🧬SciComm scholar @bluemarblespace
👩🏼🚀Aspiring Spacewalker
👩✈️Pilot
Sophy Higgins @sophyhiggins.bsky.social PhDing @ Freeman Air and Space Institute (KCL) & RAF Museum on gender, class & interwar aviation | she/her
Tara Zammit @tarazammit.bsky.social 📚PhDing @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
🧠Interested in military service experiences & integration
Tim Jenkins @tgjenkins.bsky.social Head of External Affairs, UK Space Agency
Sophy Antrobus @sophyantrobus.bsky.social Ex-X. Former Labour PPC, academic of air power and military culture. Glad to be exploring a new platform for debate.
Mehmet Onur Şahin @mehmetonursahin.bsky.social Researching Nordic defence collaboration
PhD candidate @WMG
Harry Raffal @rafhistory.bsky.social RAF History; Air Power; Digital History; Head of Collections and Research at RAF Museum; Author: Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk (Bloomsbury 2021; Co-Ed Close Air Support (Helion 2024). Committee member of RAFHS and BCMH.
Will Pomerantz @pomerantz.bsky.social Head of Space at AeroVironment - my team makes Mars helicopters. Co-Founder, Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Fellowship. Former planetary scientist. Husband, Dad, and Den Leader
Piers Mitchem @piersmitchem.bsky.social Lawyer, enviro campaigner & former Greens candidate. MA - Non-proliferation & International Security.
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
Nikki Ikani @nikki-ikani.bsky.social Assistant Prof Intel & Security ISGA | writer | NWO Veni Laureate | Research Fellow KCL | Snr Fellow NATO Defence College | researching warning | editor Poets Reading the News | @Kortschrijvers | she/her
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Dr Robert T. Foley @robertfoley.bsky.social Reader in Defence Studies, King's College London, at the Joint Services Command & Staff College. Sometime writer on warfare and strategic thought, particularly Germany in the First World War. Occasional runner of longish distances. Views my own.
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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Ed Arnold @edrusi.bsky.social European Security at RUSI - NATO, JEF, Arctic and High North security.
All views my own
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Matej Rafael Risko @matejrisko.bsky.social Researcher, focus on Nukes | Missiles | Deterrence | Strategy & Planning | War & International Security | Air Power | Wargames | Strictly personal views, Usual Cavetas
Igitur qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum
BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social British International Studies Association - Engaging the global international studies community. We're known for our working groups, journals, postgraduate network, funding, conference and more!
Website: www.bisa.ac.uk
Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Posts ≠ endorsement.
https://drrossmahoney.substack.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
From Balloons to Drones @balloons2drones.bsky.social Exploring the development of air power from the earliest days of flight to now and the future.
Editors: Dr Ross Mahoney, Dr Maria Burczynska, Dr Mike Hankins, Dr Brian Laslie, Abby Whitlock and Luca Chadwick.
https://balloonstodrones.com
David Jordan @davidjair.bsky.social King's College London. Director, Freeman Air & Space Institute; military historian prone to talking about aeroplanes. Lapsed pianist & hockey player. Views here entirely my own.
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social Author, Historian, Presenter, Broadcaster, Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London
Website: https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
Institute for Military History (IMH) @mhafhs.bsky.social We research Military History at the Swedish Defence University (Försvarshögskolan) - We were founded 1873 by Generalmajor Hugo Raab.
Find us here: https://www.fhs.se/en/swedish-defence-university/about-sedu/organisation/department-of-military-history.html
Freeman Air and Space Institute @fasikcl.bsky.social FASI. An interdisciplinary initiative of King's College London dedicated to generating an understanding of air and space power issues in defence and security.
Alyson Decker @alysondecker.bsky.social Litigator | Employment Law Guru | Your General Counsel | Mediator/Arbitrator | Space Attorney 🚀 | Luminary
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
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
Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social European security & defence, global order, EU in US-China competition.
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. PhD Defence Studies, King’s College London. Into running, matcha, 中文. Views my own.
geopoliticaleurope.substack.com
Karoline Faerber @karolinefaerber.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Erfurt | Member of Polis180 think tank | institutional ethnographer thinking about feminist foreign policy, knowledge production, and diplomacy and gender, race and class | she/her
Will Reynolds @anglo-japan45.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies Education at KCL, @dsdkings.bsky.social | Doctor in War Studies, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social | Associate @csns-uk.bsky.social | Anglo-Japanese grand strategy post-45 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | Views my own
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
Transnational Law Institute @kcltli.bsky.social Researching the most pressing transnational issues: human rights, democracy, the environment and health at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Co-directed by Dr Emily Barritt and Prof Octavio Ferraz
Ben Kienzle @kienzle.bsky.social Reader in Security Cooperation, School of Security Studies, King’s College London | #FirstGen | #AcademicDad | Personal account
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book #1 : "Weapons in Space" | Book #2 "Wiring an Empire" (contracted w/ MIT Press)
Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social Space policy wonk, former engineer, husband, father, Dungeon Master, and all around geek. I post things I find insightful, informative, or provocative
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
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
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
Christoph Bergs @milavhis.bsky.social Life consists of Air Power and Aircraft.
Founder: Military Aviation History.
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
Support the work of Jonathan's Space Report:
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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.
Matthew Harries @matthewharries.bsky.social Research director at the Labour Movement for Europe. Previously director of nuclear policy at RUSI, managing editor of Survival/senior fellow at IISS, and specialist for the Foreign Affairs Committee.
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
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Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴🏳️🌈 🚀🛰
Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n
“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social Academic, (outer) Space Governance. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Writing a book on space mining and how we think about natural resources. He/him.
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Elisabeth Braw @elisabethbraw.bsky.social Atlantic Council, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe. Author of the upcoming The Undersea War (John Murray & Basic Books this October). Geopolitics & globalisation/greyzone aggression/total defence/societal resilience. Own views
Maren Vieluf @marenvieluf.bsky.social Desk Officer @ GFFO | Interested in all things nuclear weapons and international order | PhD Candidate @ Uni Innsbruck | Personal Account |
Andrey Baklitskiy @baklitskiy.bsky.social Nukes at UNIDIR. Views own, RT/❤️ ≠ endorsement
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/
James Sullivan @mrjamessullivan.bsky.social Director, Cyber, RUSI
Sam Wilson @spacenukesam.bsky.social Space and nuke analyst at the Center for Space Policy & Strategy at the Aerospace Corporation, Spanish soccer aficionado
Dimitrios Stroikos @dstroikos.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna. Head of the LSE IDEAS Space Policy Project.
Andrea Rotter @andrearotter.bsky.social Deputy Director Academy for Politics and Current Affairs & Head of Foreign & Security Policy Division @HSS | Non-Resident Fellow @AGI | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇲| | space security enthusiast 🛰🚀| WIIS | ex SWP Berlin, GMFUS fellow | personal views only
Almudena Azcárate Ortega @almuazcarate.bsky.social Space Law Lead at Secure World Foundation ✨ | Fellow at UNIDIR 🇺🇳 | Doctor in Space Law 🚀 | Academic Fellow at Georgetown Center on National Security 🛰 | Opinions are my own
Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
Juliana Suess @julianasuess.bsky.social Researching Space Security with STAND (Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order) as part of the International Security team at @swp-berlin.org & Host of ‘War in Space’ podcast 🚀 @rusi.bsky.social Associate Fellow | 🎓 War Studies | Views are mine
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/
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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social Former diplomat, active on foreign policy in Lords. Vice-Chair RUSI, Hon Pres Normandy Memorial, Special Envoy for the Bayeux Tapestry loan. Pop up on the media a bit. New book Peace Makers. https://geni.us/PeaceMakers
Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com A magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, founded in 1922. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
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Sophia Besch @sophiabesch.bsky.social Senior Fellow Europe @CarnegieEndowment.org, DC
Adjunct lecturer @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Previously @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
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