Tom M
Most of the people who follow me are bots. Always been 95% sure everything is secretly terrible. Following cool reporters, professors, and other nerd shit; you ought to as well.
Open to being convinced the internet was a huge mistake.
@deadcarl.bsky.social
www.deadcarl.com Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history
@darklaughtertdb.bsky.social
OIF/OEF vet and Duffel Blog writer. DarkLaughterTDB (at) gmail (dot) com #satire #natsec
@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
@p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social
Historian & Arabist Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
@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.
@briankerg.bsky.social
Writer | Atlantic Council Fellow | Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellow | Naval Institute Editorial Board alumnus | Krulak Center alumnus | Pacific Forum alumnus | School of Advanced Warfighting alumnus | Amateur Historian | I Do War Stuff | Views My Own |
@josh97.bsky.social
Lost LT1 at the other place. Combined Arms, History, Star Wars, and INDOPACOM
@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
@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
@jjhelin.bsky.social
Journalist, Fact checker @ http://HS.fi Ukraine War Analysis with Black Bird Group Political History at the University of Helsinki 📞 +358413106215 ✉️ [email protected]
@giancarlofiorella.bsky.social
Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat Assistant Professor | Utrecht University PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
@hanrahan.tv
Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship. Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle www.jakehanrahan.com
@trbrtc.bsky.social
Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Doing what I'm doing now (open source investigation combined with traditional reporting) because of Twitter's community. Retired hitchhiker.
@markstout.bsky.social
Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
@marqs.bsky.social
@bdherzinger.bsky.social
I like big navies and I cannot lie. Navy Reservist | CIMSEC | Asian Security | ex-AEI, USSC, Twitter, Pacific Forum, US Pacific Fleet | Proud Idahoan | Opinions mine, but you're welcome to adopt them
@johnridge.bsky.social
Physics | Weapons Systems | National Security | Foreign Policy | Arms Exports | Security Assistance | Tochnyi Contributor | Donate to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
@jeff2146.bsky.social
Writer for Defense Archive, volunteer with GeoConfirmed and contributor to Militaryland.net. Useful links https://linktr.ee/jeff2146
@hugokaaman.bsky.social
Researcher & analyst. Focus on SVBIED design & tactics by non-state actors. Articles @MiddleEastInst @JanesINTEL @EuroEyeRad. IR grad, MENA studies
@mikenelson586.bsky.social
Citizen. Legionnaire. 2 x Time person of the year (2003/2006) 2 x Iranian designated terrorist (2019/2020). ASR Recipient.
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@nickwaters.bsky.social
Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
@tristanl.ee
Data scientist @bellingcat.com, interested in far-right networks and conspiracy theories
@bcfinucane.bsky.social
Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
@nrg8000.bsky.social
@Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
@jaylyall.bsky.social
Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Diversity and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen Website: www.jasonlyall.com
@rushdoshi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
@joannestocker.bsky.social
Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense.
@johnculver689.bsky.social
Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.
@joestieb.bsky.social
Currently asst prof at US Naval war college, soon Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill (incoming, Fall 2025). Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
@elenawicker.bsky.social
Military jargon, terminology, dictionaries, and documents. Georgetown PhD. Buzzword enthusiast.
@kabinettskriege.bsky.social
Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
@calebweiss.bsky.social
Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
@davidalman.bsky.social
Airman + consultant + aero engineer interested in national strategy, domestic policy, environmentalism, good food, and all things aviation. Views = mine alone. #airpower
@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.bsky.social
Analyst, weapons officer, and professor, but mostly just a proud girl and dog dad. Not an official account.
@wayale.bsky.social
Surface Warfare Officer (U.S. Navy) in Japan. Episcopalian, Niebuhrian, Communitarian, Social Democrat. Johns Hopkins SAIS/Hopkins-Nanjing Center alum. 中文/日本語 🏳️🌈🇺🇦
@kriegsforscher.bsky.social
Private entrepreneur before the full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Marine Corps. UAV company. PP for support: [email protected]
@akmckeever.bsky.social
Amman-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
@so3brocktree.bsky.social
🇬🇧 MOD. Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre. Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Not always as serious as I might seem. Views my own. Longer thoughts & feelings on substack: https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
@ironcapt.bsky.social
Prior Marine. Adjunct Prof. of Snark. Published in the Duffel Blog and the President’s Daily Brief. War stories 73% true. No well deck 🟰 Not an amphib.
@petemonks.bsky.social
Boring Australian suburban dad. Recipient of participation awards for Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and a few other things and places. Militantly centrist and firmly opposed to authoritarianism. Going by @Pete_Monks back at the old place. #NGFHQ
@jesspish.bsky.social
she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email [email protected] “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
@massiasthanos.bsky.social