Military News/OSINT starter pack
Here’s a list of accounts you should follow here, that post useful news/content.
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@rebel44cz.bsky.social
@honzaberanek.bsky.social
Psavec v Hospodářkách, před tím 11 let Události ČT a ČT24. UA War OSINT in 🇬🇧, otherwise 🇨🇿 Asfalt, vlaky, letadla, armáda. Názory soukromý. ❤️ @fk_teplice @nhlflyers a Radio 1.
@e-el-adel.bsky.social
@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social
The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
@menastream.bsky.social
@mschroeder77.bsky.social
Senior researcher at Small Arms Survey covering arms trafficking, illicit small arms and light weapons, and MANPADS proliferation. Diehard Dallas Cowboys fan.
@marcinrogowski.bsky.social
Mainly counting confirmed aviation losses during Russo-Ukrainian War. Some aviation news and history.
@badam.bsky.social
Great Lakes Nationalist. A Chicago Guy. Following urban, transit, political and conflict stuff.
@neilphauer.bsky.social
Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya), Russia, Ukraine, Syria, heavy metal. Stories @CNN, @CBC, @NYMag, @guardian etc. 🇨🇦 neil.hauer@gmail.com. Eng/рус/հայ.
@chriso-wiki.bsky.social
Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki
@johnridge.bsky.social
Physics | Weapons Systems | National Security | Foreign Policy | Arms Exports | Security Assistance | Tochnyi Contributor | Donate to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
@archer83able.bsky.social
Providing in-depth news coverage about the armed conflicts and crises all around the globe (focus on 🇺🇦 Ukraine). 📨 archer83able@gmail.com YT: www.youtube.com/@archer83able ☕️ KoFi: https://t.co/zRfCNxRSdu
@chung-tzu.bsky.social
@ragnarbjartur.bsky.social
My day job involves making sense of data. In my spare time, I apply these skills to Ukraine's fight for freedom.
@aviationintel.bsky.social
Creator/Editor-In-Chief of TWZ.com. Gizmodo Media Group and Time Inc. alum.
@lkrozen.bsky.social
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social
Professor at the Middlebury Institute & host of the Arms Control Wonk Podcast.
@p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social
Historian & Arabist Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
@justin-br0nk.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Military Technology at RUSI, London. Professor II at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy. Pilot. Views are my own. RUSI biography and publications: https://t.co/wgeOUvRQdO
@gloooud.bsky.social
🇺🇦Osinter, associated with NATO intelligence services and the Main Intelligence Directorate https://t.me/JusuMakonis
@olegkutkov.bsky.social
Electronics, Software, Radio, Embedded. Starlink hacking and fixing. Space and Astronomy.
@elmustek.bsky.social
🇩🇪 Tracking Equipment Losses and the Usage of Civilian Vehicles (Cars/Trucks etc) in different conflicts | Run boberkherson
@armadarotta.bsky.social
Joint project to track and count Vehicle Losses in active and past wars. If you see anything undocumented please either tag or DM the Authors of the List
@warspotting.bsky.social
OSINT database of visually confirmed material losses in 🇷🇺🇺🇦 war. https://warspotting.net/
@evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
@leloveluck.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com foreign correspondent covering international crises, including the Israel-Gaza and Lebanon wars. Based in London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. I’m new here. 🙋🏻♀️
@artwendeley.bsky.social
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@noelreports.com
Media platform covering global conflict zones. Focus on the Ukraine-Russia war. Consider supporting us once via buymeacoffee.com/noelreports or by becoming a member via patreon.com/NOELREPORTS.
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@colborne.bsky.social
@bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers.
@deaidua.org
Tracking Germany's assistance for Ukraine | Plenty of writing | Proud to be mentioned on German television | info@deaidua.org | Threema: V95AP84E https://deaidua.org/en/ https://deaidua.org/news/ https://ko-fi.com/deaidua
@delfoo.bsky.social
@erwoods.bsky.social
Escaping the birdsite, once and for all. Russia, sanctions, missiles, drones, and the global arms trade.
@hugokaaman.bsky.social
Researcher & analyst. Focus on SVBIED design & tactics by non-state actors. Articles @MiddleEastInst @JanesINTEL @EuroEyeRad. IR grad, MENA studies
@praisethesteph.bsky.social
🇨🇿Czech & 🇺🇦Ukrainian Army enthusiast, Mil news & Defense technology, tracking Czech equipment (not only) in Ukraine | contact: praisethesteph@gmail.com Twitter: @praisethesteph
@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social
@lizsly.bsky.social
Journalist, foreign correspondent. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
@manniefabian.bsky.social
Times Of Israel military correspondent | BGU alum | hmu: mannie@timesofisrael.com | http://mann.ie
@michaelsheetz.bsky.social
Firefly Director of Investor Relations | previously @CNBC f/k/@ thesheetztweetz
@mikeeckel.bsky.social
Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Former Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. @RFERL
@saladinaldronni.bsky.social
Researcher. Terrorism, conflicts, jihadi crime networks, IS/AQ, Central and South-East Asia. 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
@tschoenborn.bsky.social
Conflict and political situation analysis and reports: Syria, Iraq, Mali/Niger. Casualty tracking. STL to MPLS transplant. Opinions do not represent employer.
@jeff2146.bsky.social
Writer for Defense Archive, volunteer with GeoConfirmed and contributor to Militaryland.net. Useful links https://linktr.ee/jeff2146
@ryanmofarrell.bsky.social
Non-state actors and conflicts / mostly East Africa & the Levant / geolocations / Ohioan / Defections Operations Coordinator at the Bridgeway Foundation / @SAISHopkins alum
@teoyaomiquu.bsky.social
A Ukrainian combat veteran (2014), a father, living in the USA since 2019. WA. Supporting Ukraine. Freedom, liberty, strength.
@dmitri.silverado.org
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber Chairman @silverado.org Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS Co-Founder CrowdStrike @DAlperovitch elsewhere
@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.
@christopherjm.ft.com
Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 15 years 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
@michaelkofman.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
@defmon3.bsky.social
@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.
@aphclarkson.bsky.social
Lecturer for German and European Studies at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement. Also to be found at @APHClarkson@mastodon.social as well as @APHClarkson https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
@wartranslated.bsky.social
🇪🇪 Estonian blogger focusing on Russia/Ukraine | 18+ version: https://t.me/wartranslated | Glory to #Ukraine!
@wammezz.bsky.social
Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
@massdara.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia.
@vpkivimaki.bsky.social
Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
@dankaszeta.bsky.social
Londoner. CBRN expert, particularly nerve agents. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
@nrg8000.bsky.social
@Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
@nickwaters.bsky.social
Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
@hanrahan.tv
Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship. Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle www.jakehanrahan.com
@aramshabanian.bsky.social
Perhaps the real watch list was the friends we made along the way. Keyboard Inghimasi. Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex. --Dire Straits Appreciation Zone-- #Flowers4Qanon
@covertshores.bsky.social
Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos http://www.hisutton.com/
@tatarigami.bsky.social
Former UA officer Founder of the Frontelligence Insight: https://frontelligence.substack.com To support my work: http://buymeacoffee.com/frontelligence
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@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/
@rebel44cz.bsky.social
Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator. http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz