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Science is why we're alive.
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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy โช@truth.bsky.socialโฌ , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
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
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Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
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Currently based in New York.
War Mapper @warmapper.org Mapping conflicts
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Dr. Raymond Kuo | ้ญๆณๅ @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ธ
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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
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/
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social Former UA officer
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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social Senior Game Designer at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Designer of the "Littoral Commander" wargame series. Former US Marine. Opinions own.
Samir @obretix.bsky.social geospatial IT โ OSINT/IMINT
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Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia. 
Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social Geospatial analyst, OSINT investigator, and journalist. Investigating the intersection of climate resilience and human systems, and sometimes writing fiction. From ๐ฆ๐บ, now in ๐ช๐บ.
๐Berlin, Germany
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
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Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of โThe Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Shamโ
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Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social Data, maps, and satellite imagery ๐ฐ๐ป๐ญ
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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, Ujamaaโs Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Paweล Wรณjcik ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฑ๐ช๐บ @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
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David B Larter @davidblarter.bsky.social Navy vet. Tweets on Navy, space, watches, scotch, history & other random unserious musings. All opinions mine, not employer's. Formerly Defense News, Navy Times
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of โTHE NEW NUCLEAR AGEโ (Polity) & โKIM JONG UN AND THE BOMBโ (Hurst/Oxford)
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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.
Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5
Sequel: Duality, coming soon.
Substack: Breaking Beijing.
Podcast: WarTalk (ChinaTalk)
Battle Order @battleorder.org โ๏ธ Posting military unit graphics, fictional art, and quirky vehicles. #ORBATBoys
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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.
Fubar ๐จ๐ฆ @captainfubar.bsky.social Mil-Poster, Black 'n Arab, Unapologetic NATO Shill, Progressive. Proud Canadian; Patch Guy ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ง
Doha @doha104p3.bsky.social Mil-Av, Maritime, Missile, Space, Defense, and some politics related posts | F-35 appreciator | Agile Combat Employment Supremacist | (Not very active here)
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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social Personal Perspectives โข Beholding the Pacific โข Krulak Center โข YCAPS โข Allies & Partners โข Amphibious Defense โข Aloha
Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social US Army Goodpaster Scholar, Wargamer, & Paratrooper | USMA โ09, KCL War Studies โ15, Gโtown SSP โ20 | PhD Candidate @ Duke PoliSci | Personal Acct per DoDI 5400.17
John Arterbury @johnarterbury.bsky.social Hotline Damascus 
Matt Eminem @legalleadtheway.bsky.social | Law of War | LOAC | Intโl Humanitarian Law |
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RLTW!
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Vodka ๐ง @vodkanon.bsky.social Disavowed Task Force 141 Operator | Disinformation Enthusiast | Anonymous Defence Source | Part-time Marlboro Lobbyist
Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social Retired #Marine, scribbler, #wargame analyst, podcast co-host, geek. Author of โA New Conception of Warโ on #USMC reading list. All views my own.
@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social Not an official account of anything or anyone other than a guy who never learned when to shut his mouth.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
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.
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social Old radar types never die; they just phased array!
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Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
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Sรธren Sjรธgren @sorensjogren.bsky.social Military officer | PhD | Institute head of R&D at the Royal Danish Defence College | Editor @sjms.bsky.social | Doctrine, planning, and command.
Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social Transatlantic Doctoral Student covering the Cold War to the present.
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Confused CPT @josh97.bsky.social Combined Arms, History, Star Wars, and INDOPACOM
Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social Small town kid. Joined the military. Stuck w/ it for 21 yrs. Stayed in defense. Planner & strategist. Inventor of the coffee egg cream & mocha coffee egg cream
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/
John Helin @jjhelin.bsky.social Journalist, Fact checker @ http://HS.fi
Ukraine War Analysis with Black Bird Group
Political History at the University of Helsinki
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Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
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.
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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social I like big navies and I cannot lie. Navy Reservist | CIMSEC | Asian Security | ex-Citi, AEI, USSC, Twitter, Pacific Forum, US Pacific Fleet | Proud Idahoan | Opinions mine, but you're welcome to adopt them
John Ridge ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ @johnridge.bsky.social Physics | Weapons Systems | National Security | Foreign Policy | Arms Exports | Security Assistance | Tochnyi Contributor | Donate to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
jeff2146 @jeff2146.bsky.social Writer for Defense Archive, volunteer with GeoConfirmed and contributor to Militaryland.net.
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Hugo Kaaman @hugokaaman.bsky.social Researcher & analyst. Focus on SVBIED design & tactics by non-state actors. Articles @MiddleEastInst @JanesINTEL @EuroEyeRad. IR grad, MENA studies
Mike Nelson @mikenelson586.bsky.social Citizen. Legionnaire.
2 x Time person of the year (2003/2006)
2 x Iranian designated terrorist (2019/2020).
ASR Recipient.
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
Casus Belli: Ukraine 2014 | ๐ฑโ๏ธ๐
@doctoradmiral.bsky.social Educational content on the early history of the Russian invasion
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEIโs foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
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
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). ๐จ๐ฆ #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown โข Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative โข Biden NSC China 2021-2024 โข Author of The Long Game
Joanne Stocker @joannestocker.bsky.social Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that donโt make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.socialโฌ
Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.
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.
Elena Wicker @elenawicker.bsky.social Military jargon, terminology, dictionaries, and documents. Georgetown PhD. Buzzword enthusiast.
Dr. Alexander S. Burns @kabinettskriege.bsky.social Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
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.
John F Sullivan @johnfsullivan.bsky.social Former U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer currently studying ancient Chinese military & strategic texts and arguing for the need to study and debate them more broadly within our own military PME and academic institutions.
McFlyTG @mcflytg.bsky.social Analyst, weapons officer, and professor, but mostly just a proud girl and dog dad. Not an official account.
Yen-han Chen ้ณๅฝฅ็ฟฐ ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ @chen-yenhan.bsky.social Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher.
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Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social Surface Warfare Officer (U.S. Navy) in DC. Six years in Japan, two years in China. Episcopalian. Johns Hopkins SAIS/HNC alum. ไธญๆ/ๆฅๆฌ่ช ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ
Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social J6D5H3TJ
@kriegsforscher.bsky.social @kriegsforscher.bsky.social Private entrepreneur before the full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Marine Corps. UAV company. PP for support: osint4ua@gmail.com
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
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Iron Capt. @ironcapt.bsky.social Pro-wife, Anti-Nazi.
Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social Boring Australian suburban dad. Recipient of participation awards for Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and a few other things and places.
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social progressive liberal ๐ posting stuff that interests me
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Grateful Dad @tmartinsmith.bsky.social Promoting good from #CoastalGeorgia | #T21 Advocate | Runner | Believer | #GratefulDad | Returns shopping cart to the rack | #BoiledPeanuts | #UGA | ๐บ๐ธ
Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social King of Lutruwita. Aboriginal Tasmanian - Palawa. Terrible sense of humour. Now a Cat Dad. Wizard of Weed.
Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social Few fucks left to give. Sisu. Threat assessment. EMT/First Responder. Espaรฑol. Franรงais. Minnesota! Canada! Anger translator for author @robertsaxton.bsky.social
Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social Political writer. Author. Country Mouse. Columnist with @washingtonsun.bsky.social. Formerly with Washington Post. Sign up to receive my columns: https://washingtonsun.com/dana-milbank-newsletter-sign-up
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Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
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Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social Writer, researcher covering the right-wing media // Book coming feb โ27 (Sourcebooks) // madeline dot peltz at gmail, signal: madeline.46 // numbertwopencil.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/peltzmadeline
Georg โMaverickโ Lรถfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in US Foreign Policy, Queen Mary University of London. Out now: The Politics of Antagonism (Routledge, 2024). Researches Security/Narratives/Identity/Populism
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/loefflmanngeorg.html
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.