Reasoned & Researched
This is my starter pack of academics whose work I admire and whose reasoned and researched opinions I value. Most credentialed PhDs in Political Science, History, or security-related fields.
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@strategerist.bsky.social
@rexbrynen.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Middle East politics, peacebuilding, humanitarian response, urban warfare, intelligence, serious games. https://paxsims.wordpress.com/
@ccbaxter.bsky.social
Once and future🙋public servant. Global risks; music; food; the occasional drink. Impact and leverage are not verbs. I am not your key stakeholder.
@docl.bsky.social
Polsci PhD. Professor. Iconoclast. Inter-disciplinarian. Evidence seeker. Beard grower. Simplicity admirer. Golden retriever concierge. Occasional schadenfreudean. #RCJH #NAFO ⚛︎
@samseitz.bsky.social
Stanton postdoc at MIT; Oxford PhD and Georgetown alum; into alliances, status seeking, mil power, & nukes https://www.samuelmseitz.com/
@heidiurben.bsky.social
Prof of the Practice @GeorgetownCSS | Non-Res Senior Associate @csis_isp | civ-mil, natsec | Views mine alone | Go Irish, Hoya Saxa https://www.cambriapress.com/PoliticsArmy
@elenawicker.bsky.social
Military jargon, terminology, dictionaries, and documents. Georgetown PhD. Buzzword enthusiast.
@jwmeiser.bsky.social
Former war college professor NDU now UPortland. Tweets on politics, IR, strategy, hip hop. Book: Power and Restraint. My views rep only me.
@jpclark97.bsky.social
Historian | Educator of strategists | Editor-in-chief @warroomeds.bsky.social | Author "Preparing for War: Emergence of the Modern US Army, 1815-1917" | Now writing “Acts of Madness: US Military Strategy in the Pacific, 1898-1941” | www.jpclark.works
@ninatannenwald.bsky.social
Political scientist at Brown, focusing on nuclear weapons, WMD, norms and institutions in security, human rights, ethics and laws of war.
@kjmcinnis1.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Defense & Security Department & Director, SWSP @CSIS. Priors: Capitol Hill, Pentagon, Chatham House, Kings College London. PhD War Studies. Author. Mom. Herder of cats. NATO nerd.
@rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social
Democracy & political violence expert, work globally and U.S., lover of street food, fiddle music, unforgiving landscapes, and my kiddos. All views my own.
@jjschroden.bsky.social
21 years as a military operations analyst. Lots on DOD happenings, especially special ops & irregular warfare. Author of a forthcoming book on the history of US counterterrorism in Afghanistan. All views my own, RT not endorsement. Be droll, not a troll.
@proftalmadge.bsky.social
MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, Wilson Center fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army www.CaitlinTalmadge.com
@nathankfinney.com
Servant of the Republic on the Edge of Empires | Fellow, Duke Program on American Grand Strategy & @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social | Ed., @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Pres, @milwritersguild.bsky.social | Historian of WWI (book @cornellupress.bsky.social)
@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
@milhistlee.bsky.social
World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
@carriealee.bsky.social
Personal account, public servant: Democracy & war, Civ-Mil, NatSec & Strategy. Member at CFR, Fellow at CNAS & Truman Project. Running enthusiast.
@rtperson3.bsky.social
Prof. of International Relations at West Point, CFR Member. Specialist on Russian and post-Soviet politics, Eurasian foodie, partisan of tweed. Views & плов recipe my own.
@jordanbecker.bsky.social
I teach and do social science, and direct a social science research lab @WestPoint. Personal account; I'm in the Army but don't speak for it here! @CSDS Brussels; IHEDN Chaire ECODEF https://www.westpoint.edu/social-sciences/profile/jordan_becker
@susancolbourn.net
Historian at Duke. Latest book: EUROMISSILES. Still writing about NATO and European security since 1945.
@daveasiegel.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. Associate Editor (Formal Theory) of the AJPS. daveasiegel.com
@hoffmanbruce.bsky.social
Proud 🇺🇸✡️ & Zionist who has been studying terrorism & insurgency for nearly 5 decades and is a senior fellow @CFR.org. My own opinions. Re-postings are not necessarily endorsements.
@eliotacohen.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
@stevemetz.bsky.social
Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency.
@jackieschneider.bsky.social
Hoover Fellow, Director Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Stanford University. Research on international security, emerging technology, wargames. Views are my own.
@emsetc.bsky.social
I am not a committee. Defense, lightly eclectic Gen-X interests, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own. What are you reading?
@bafriedman.bsky.social
Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz. CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
@drrobthompson.com
Bluesky’s resident Vietnam War historian. Army University Press historian and documentary maker. Author of _Clear, Hold, and Destroy_—a book about pacification in Phú Yên. All views my own. Слава Україні! Web: https://www.drrobthompson.com
@risabrooks12.bsky.social
Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
@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/
@goodauth.bsky.social
Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
@profsaunders.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Columbia; editor, Good Authority; non-res Senior Fellow, Brookings. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace (preorder: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game)
@profpaulpoast.bsky.social
International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Still on Twitter/X, but now here too. https://www.paulpoast.com/
@smsaideman.bsky.social
#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@strategerist.bsky.social
US Army Goodpaster Scholar, Wargamer, & Paratrooper | USMA ‘09, KCL War Studies ‘15, G’town SSP ‘20 | PhD Student @ Duke PoliSci | Personal Acct per DoDI 5400.17