How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...

Great talk with @craigwhiteside.bsky.social on non-state special operations

You heard Rep. Randall: ✅ Go and vote ✅ Take a selfie ✅ Tag a friend and get them to vote ✅ Sign up for a canvassing opportunity ✅ Win the dang election!

Great discussion with @pieterzhao.bsky.social on this timely topic

Fighting to uphold the Constitution — especially the 1st amendment — today and every day.

NEW: Handwritten ‘No Girls Aloud’ sign spotted outside Joint Chiefs’ treehouse

Sea Control 587 — 20 Years Past the Military Response to Hurricane Katrina Elaine Helm joins to reflect on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and her time embedded with US military during rescue operations in New Orleans and Houston. sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea...

Just out, fun talk about HA/DR, the evolution of media in the last 20 years, and what a few Sailors from a CVN in the yard did to help hurricane victims

Welcome to the new Military Writers Guild members! Learn more about the new members at the link below: milwritersguild.substack.com/p/welcoming-...

The Pentagon is underestimating how much it actually needs public engagement.

Ozzy, Chuck, and Hulk.

The disaster at Jena-Austerlaut was the formative experience for Clausewitz. How the armies and state built by Frederick the Great crumpled like a house of cards bothered him for many years. When he wrote about years later, many of the problems he diagnosed eerily parallel 2025 America. My latest ⬇️

If you're part of a fisheries NGO - have you ever found a policy toolkit helpful? And if you didn't, what wasn't helpful?

This is a super long shot, but does anyone out there work on the Yaoundé Code of Conduct and would be interested in a chat on IUU Fishing and transparency?

I feel like deterrence has not been restored www.bbc.com/news/article...

All the talk of airstrikes, ground wars, and nukes makes it easy to miss a growing trend in global security affairs: the (return) centrality of naval power. Mahan would be proud, as I explain in my latest for @wpr.bsky.social. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/naval-power-...

War is about acquiring the best theory shirts by other means.

African Maritime Forces Week Concludes on CIMSEC From June 16-20, CIMSEC featured a series of articles written for the African Maritime Forces Summit (AMFS) 2025. Authors covered a multitude of maritime security challenges featured at the link below. cimsec.org/african-mari...

Reading Thucydides and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the train know I disagree with invading Sicily

Sea Control 575 - Baltic Conundrums with Sebastian Bruns Dr. Sebastian Bruns joins the show to talk about his article Conundrums, right ahead: Five strategic concerns for Baltic Sea decision-makers. cimsec.org/sea-control-...

US 'far behind in capabilities' being sold by retired general open.substack.com/pub/duffelbl...

If the U.S. Navy can’t Repair Ships in Peacetime, how will it do so in War? The Navy needs to prepare now for battle damage repair by investing in repair ships, and by learning lessons from recent emergent repairs and the last major war it fought at sea. cimsec.org/if-the-u-s-n...

We’re lucky to have such outstanding Coastguardsmen ready to rescue those in need. Semper Paratus! bigislandnow.com/2025/05/10/u...

Friday member submissions are up on Substack now! milwritersguild.substack.com/p/published-...

Thank you to Frank Hoffman and Joint Forces Quarterly for including my book, The War for Ukraine, in a review essay in the latest edition of JFQ. I feel humbled to have it reviewed beside terrific books edited by Hal Brands, John Nagl and Katie Crombe. digitalcommons.ndu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

For all of you pirate lovers out there, here is a podcast interview I did with @wrkclasshistory.bsky.social about the history of piracy as seen from below. I hope you enjoy it!

Great talking with Peter on this evergreen yet urgent subject

Sea Control 568 - An Australian Coast Guard Jennifer Parker discusses how maritime security is handled in Australia currently and how the addition of a dedicated Coast Guard would be a benefit to Australia. sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea...

Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.

We proudly announce our latest and largest cohort of new members. The pool of great applicants this year was impressive, in both quantity and quality - and our community of writers will be stronger for it. Welcome! open.substack.com/pub/milwrite...

I like to think there's a PLAN officer somewhere who advised waiting til a foggy day to make these look even more dramatic and has now been promoted for his contribution to Looming Ominously Out Of The Mist

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Incredibly honored to have just been selected as a member of the @milwritersguild.bsky.social . Big thanks to @kdahlstrand.bsky.social for her support and encouragement.

Are you a new or experienced writer with a military background or focus? Whether your work is creative (memoir, fiction, poetry) or more analytical/scholarly in nature (policy analysis, journal articles, etc) - there's an awards category for you here!

The U.S. Coast Guard has drafted a new aviation strategy. Is it just a rehash of old-think or will the always "do more with less" Service have the guts to ask for the air wing it needs--and deserves?

Shows you that we are always stronger with our friends, allies, and partners.

Call for Articles: Notes to the New Administration Authors are invited to send short responses of 500 words focusing strictly on naval, maritime, and national security affairs, for feature in a special series. Send all responses to [email protected]. cimsec.org/call-for-art...

CIMSEC Community, CIMSEC recently joined Bluesky--if you follow us here & are interested in international maritime security, we are also on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X! Have a happy holiday season and see you in 2025! www.linkedin.com/company/cims... www.facebook.com/cimsec x.com/CIMSEC

Sea Control 559 - The Illogic of Naval Forward Presence Jonathan Panter, a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations & PhD candidate at Columbia University discusses his PhD dissertation, “The Illogic of Naval Forward Presence.” sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea...

Very proud to see the @cimsec.bsky.social Sea Control team at number 7 on this list, particularly when comparing number of episodes produced by a team of volunteers! theprinciplesofwar.com/podcast/top-...

A new year means new opportunities. Come join our growing community of writers! New member application window is open from today through 31 January 2025. www.militarywritersguild.org/join

Not sure that's the Veteransy exclamation they thought it was, but I like it anyway