John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times. Former U.S. Navy EOD & Iraq vet. Reach me securely via Signal at: johnismay.01 or by email at: john.ismay@nytimes.com
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Saint Terrificus (Official Music Account) @saintterrificus.bsky.social In Latin, Terrificus means awe inspiring, terrible. Listen to our first album! Here’s 12 protest bangers for you. https://saintterrificus.bandcamp.com/album/the-war-prayer-2
🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org A little GIS, a little EnviroSci, a little Emergency Management, some Photography, and a lot of UCLA.
Emily Hoge @emilyehoge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Concerned Marine Officer @conmaroff.bsky.social Here to bring back bipartisanship to the military.
Not affiliated with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Not a fan of @marforbluesky
MTMcGurk @mtmcgurk.bsky.social Dad, Army Recruiter, aspiring historian, poetry book author: "To Be Continued;"
Gidget Fuentes @gidgetfuentes.bsky.social Freelance writer military etc DIY NYer SoCal living realist em dash fan We need more original reporting.
Pro clean air/water Knowledge
❤️#Scotties 🐶 gardening running baseball friends = therapies
Daniel @danny1775.bsky.social Active duty Marine working at HQMC. Native NYer, Canisius College and BU alum, long suffering Buffalo sports fan.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis"
Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social My better angels want crew-served weapons.
Focus on USMC 1898-1917 and 1919-1933, for now.
“The Marines Have Landed At Nantucket…” Marine Corps Gazette, May 2025
My niche history blog on Gilded Era Marines: https://islandjohnny65.blogspot.com
Mark Jones @mark18681918.bsky.social PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Unite For Veterans Coalition @unite4vets.bsky.social Unite for Veterans is a coalition working to protect what’s been earned through service—and what we fought for. https://www.unite4veterans.org/
Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social Host On Offense Pod. Cohost Find Out Podcast. CEO Task Force Butler + Veterans Fighting Fascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (http://vva.org/trollreport). Yes, the Nazi hunter you’ve been looking for. linktr.ee/krisgoldsmith
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
Military.com @militarydotcom.bsky.social Military.com ’s official presence on Bluesky. Follow for military news and exclusive content.
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.
Mark 8:36
Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
@kriegsforscher.bsky.social @kriegsforscher.bsky.social Private entrepreneur before the full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Marine Corps. UAV company. PP for support: osint4ua@gmail.com
Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social J6D5H3TJ
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. 中文/日本語 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇹🇼
Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher.
中文/上海话/ENG/FR
McFlyTG @mcflytg.bsky.social Analyst, weapons officer, and professor, but mostly just a proud girl and dog dad. Not an official account.
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.
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
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.
Dr. Alexander S. Burns @kabinettskriege.bsky.social Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
Elena Wicker @elenawicker.bsky.social Military jargon, terminology, dictionaries, and documents. Georgetown PhD. Buzzword enthusiast.
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.
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.
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.
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
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). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
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
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Casus Belli: Ukraine 2014 | 🔱⚒️🌅 @doctoradmiral.bsky.social Educational content on the early history of the Russian invasion
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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
Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
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.
Hugo Kaaman @hugokaaman.bsky.social Researcher & analyst. Focus on SVBIED design & tactics by non-state actors. Articles @MiddleEastInst @JanesINTEL @EuroEyeRad. IR grad, MENA studies
jeff2146 @jeff2146.bsky.social Writer for Defense Archive, volunteer with GeoConfirmed and contributor to Militaryland.net.
Useful links https://linktr.ee/jeff2146
John Ridge 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @johnridge.bsky.social Physics | Weapons Systems | National Security | Foreign Policy | Arms Exports | Security Assistance | Tochnyi Contributor | Donate to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
MarQs__ @marqs.bsky.social 
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.
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
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
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
📞 +358413106215
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Confused CPT @josh97.bsky.social Combined Arms, History, Star Wars, and INDOPACOM
Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social Transatlantic Doctoral Student covering the Cold War to the present.
Logo adapted from that of the Soviet Army Studies Office
Søren Sjøgren @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.
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social Old radar types never die; they just phased array!
Aerospace, Defense and NatSec related content
#OpenSource. No affiliations to govt., media or industry
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
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.
@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.
Vodka 🧊 @vodkanon.bsky.social Disavowed Task Force 141 Operator | Disinformation Enthusiast | Anonymous Defence Source | Part-time Marlboro Lobbyist
Matt Eminem @legalleadtheway.bsky.social | Law of War | LOAC | Int’l Humanitarian Law |
The steel of freedom does not stain.
Personal opinions, no employer endorsement, nothing here is legal advice.
RLTW!
John Arterbury @johnarterbury.bsky.social Hotline Damascus 
Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social US Army Goodpaster Scholar, Wargamer, & Paratrooper | USMA ‘09, KCL War Studies ‘15, G’town SSP ‘20 | PhD Candidate @ Duke PoliSci | Personal Acct per DoDI 5400.17
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/
Strategic Trends @strategictrends.bsky.social US foreign policy and national security interests in the Indo-Pacific | Maritime minded | | Learning every day | Views my own. | Always humble
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)
Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social Mil-Poster, Black 'n Arab, Unapologetic NATO Shill, Progressive. Proud Canadian; Patch Guy 🇦🇬🇱🇧
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.
Battle Order @battleorder.org ⚔️ Posting military unit graphics, fictional art, and quirky vehicles. #ORBATBoys
https://www.youtube.com/@battleorder
https://www.battleorder.org/
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
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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Havoc @havocsix.bsky.social Army Engineer Vet & militant sarcasm enthusiast | Defense, foreign policy, & absurdism | Host Trip Wired: http://linktr.ee/tripwired1 | Historia magistra vitae | Opinions = mine alone |
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @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
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
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, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social Data, maps, and satellite imagery 🛰🌻🔭
viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com
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 “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
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
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 🇦🇺, now in 🇪🇺.
📍Berlin, Germany
https://www.michaelcruickshank.me/
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia. 
@kylejglen.bsky.social @kylejglen.bsky.social 
Samir @obretix.bsky.social geospatial IT – OSINT/IMINT
Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social Former UA officer
Founder of the Frontelligence Insight: https://frontelligence.substack.com
To support my work: http://buymeacoffee.com/frontelligence
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
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War Mapper @warmapper.org Mapping conflicts
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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
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
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
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
"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
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.
The Washington Times @washtimes.bsky.social Reliable reporting, hard-hitting analysis & breaking news.
www.washingtontimes.com
Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com News, culture, and analysis by and for the military community. Got a tip or story? Send it here →
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Ambassador Kirk Wagar (ret.) @ambwagar.bsky.social Former US Ambassador to Singapore, proud immigrant, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative. Massive Canes and Lions fan!