JOverton1847
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Editor of Seapower by Other Means, friend of small trees and small dogs. All opinions my own
How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
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How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/technology/progressive-newspaper-stranger-seattle.html?smid=bs-share
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Great talk with
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Sea Control 589: Non-state Special Operations | Sea Control
Lt. Col. (RET) Craig Whiteside, PhD., joins the program to discuss the new book he co-authored with Ian Brown, Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects. Dr. Whiteside shares how to defin...
https://sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea-control-589-non-state-special-operations
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Washington State Democrats
about 1 month ago
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!
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Great discussion with
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Rep. Emily Randall
about 2 months ago
Fighting to uphold the Constitution — especially the 1st amendment — today and every day.
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Duffel Blog
about 2 months ago
NEW: Handwritten ‘No Girls Aloud’ sign spotted outside Joint Chiefs’ treehouse
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Handwritten ‘No Girls Aloud’ sign spotted outside Joint Chiefs’ treehouse
Sources confirm women still permitted in actual Pentagon, for now
https://www.duffelblog.com/handwritten-no-girls-aloud-sign-spotted-outside-joint-chiefs-treehouse/
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
2 months ago
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.
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Sea Control 587: 20 Years Past the military response to Hurricane Katrina | Sea Control
Elaine Helm joins the program to reflect on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and her time as a journalist embedded with the US military during their response and recovery operations in New O...
https://sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea-control-587-20-years-past-the-military-response-to-hurricane-katrina
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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
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Sea Control 587: 20 Years Past the military response to Hurricane Katrina | Sea Control
Elaine Helm joins the program to reflect on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and her time as a journalist embedded with the US military during their response and recovery operations in New O...
https://sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea-control-587-20-years-past-the-military-response-to-hurricane-katrina
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Military Writers Guild
3 months ago
Welcome to the new Military Writers Guild members! Learn more about the new members at the link below:
milwritersguild.substack.com/p/welcoming-...
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Welcoming New Members to the Guild
Strengthening the writing community for over a decade
https://milwritersguild.substack.com/p/welcoming-new-members-to-the-guild-432
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Alisa Bokulich
4 months ago
#MaritimeHistory
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Kori Schake
4 months ago
The Pentagon is underestimating how much it actually needs public engagement.
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Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events
The move comes a week after the Defense Department pulled out of the Aspen Security Forum due to “the evil of globalism.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/pentagon-think-tank-events-ban-00473621?nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nname=playbook-pm&nrid=0000015a-57d3-db94-ad5a-d7d3e91a0000
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Ozzy, Chuck, and Hulk.
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Secretary of Defense Rock
4 months ago
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 ⬇️
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America as Prussia in 1806
Decaying Institutions, Social Nihilism, Elite Complicity, and a Slow March Toward Disaster
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/america-as-prussia-in-1806?r=376i7r
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Gina Fiore
5 months ago
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?
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Gina Fiore
5 months ago
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?
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Jeff Meiser
5 months ago
I feel like deterrence has not been restored
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Yemen Houthis sink second Red Sea cargo ship in a week
At least three of the 25 people on board the Eternity C were killed after it was attacked by the Iran-backed group.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3071vp2d8yo
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Paul Poast
5 months ago
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
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www.worldpoliticsreview.com/naval-power-...
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Naval Power Is Only Getting More Important in World Politics
Three recent events underscored not only the continued relevance of naval power in international politics, but also its growing importance in the 21st century.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/naval-power-politics/
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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 🇺🇦🇵🇸
5 months ago
War is about acquiring the best theory shirts by other means.
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
5 months ago
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...
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African Maritime Forces Week Concludes on CIMSEC | Center for International Maritime Security
https://cimsec.org/african-maritime-forces-week-concludes-on-cimsec/
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James
6 months ago
Reading Thucydides and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the train know I disagree with invading Sicily
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
6 months ago
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.
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Sea Control 575: Baltic Conundrums with Sebastian Bruns | Center for International Maritime Security
https://cimsec.org/sea-control-575-baltic-conundrums-with-sebastian-bruns/
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US 'far behind in capabilities' being sold by retired general
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US 'far behind in capabilities' being sold by retired general
The retired officer says that America is woefully under-resourced in a defense technology capability that is only sold by his company.
https://open.substack.com/pub/duffelblog/p/us-far-behind-in-capabilities-says?r=asq3e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
6 months ago
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
6 months ago
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...
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If the U.S. Navy can’t Repair Ships in Peacetime, how will it do so in War? | Center for International Maritime Security
https://cimsec.org/if-the-u-s-navy-cant-repair-ships-in-peacetime-how-will-it-do-so-in-war/
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Zach Ota
7 months ago
We’re lucky to have such outstanding Coastguardsmen ready to rescue those in need. Semper Paratus!
bigislandnow.com/2025/05/10/u...
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U.S. Coast Guard medevacs captain from fishing vessel offshore East Hawai‘i | Big Island Now
The 68-year-old man had been suffering from severe symptoms from some kind of illness, such as abdominal pain and fever, for 10 days before he called watchstanders at Joint Rescue Coordination Center ...
https://bigislandnow.com/2025/05/10/u-s-coast-guard-medevacs-captain-from-fishing-vessel-offshore-east-hawaii/
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Military Writers Guild
7 months ago
Friday member submissions are up on Substack now!
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Published Content from MWG Members
Part VI, 9 May 2025
https://milwritersguild.substack.com/p/published-content-from-mwg-members-36a
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Mick Ryan
8 months ago
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.
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Marcus Rediker
8 months ago
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!
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Great talking with Peter on this evergreen yet urgent subject
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
8 months ago
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.
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Sea Control 568 - An Australian Coast Guard | Sea Control
Jennifer Parker joins Jonathan to discuss her paper Time for an Australian Coast Guard. The two discuss how maritime security is handled in Australia currently and how the addition of a dedicated Coas...
https://sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea-control-568-an-australian-coast-guard
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Eddy Conroy
9 months ago
Paging
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
and
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
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Military Writers Guild
9 months ago
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!
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Welcoming New Members to the Guild
Strengthening the writing community for over a decade
https://open.substack.com/pub/milwritersguild/p/welcoming-new-members-to-the-guild
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Dr Emma Salisbury
9 months ago
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
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NPR
9 months ago
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.
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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
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.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-5316163/james-harrison-blood-donor
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Incredibly honored to have just been selected as a member of the
@milwritersguild.bsky.social
. Big thanks to
@kdahlstrand.bsky.social
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Edward H. Carpenter
9 months ago
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!
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Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92
Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/09/1167079326/tom-robbins-obituary-novelist
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Craig Hooper
12 months ago
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?
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U.S. Coast Guard Aviation, Facing Crisis, Rethinks Strategy
With almost 18 percent of the Coast Guard’s 45-strong MH-60T "Jayhawk" medium range recovery fleet out of service, Coast Guard aviation is finally forging a new strategy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2024/12/15/us-coast-guard-aviation-facing-crisis-rethinks-strategy/
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Sebastian Bae
11 months ago
Shows you that we are always stronger with our friends, allies, and partners.
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
11 months ago
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]
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cimsec.org/call-for-art...
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Call for Articles: Notes to the New Administration | Center for International Maritime Security
https://cimsec.org/call-for-articles-notes-to-the-new-administration/
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
12 months ago
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!
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Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)
11 months ago
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.”
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Sea Control 559 - The Illogic of Naval Forward Presence with Jonathan Panter | Sea Control
Host Walker Mills talks with Jonathan G. Panter, a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a PhD candidate at Columbia University, and former US Navy Surface Warfare Offic...
https://sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea-control-559-the-illogic-of-naval-forward-presence-with-jonathan-panter
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Jared Samuelson
11 months ago
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!
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Top 10 Professional Military Education Podcasts for 2025 | The Principles of War Podcast
Here is a list of the Top 10 Professional Military Education Podcasts for 2025. Get your Podcast PME here!
https://theprinciplesofwar.com/podcast/top-10-professional-military-education-podcasts-for-2025/
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Military Writers Guild
11 months ago
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
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Join — Military Writers Guild
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Kampf mit Kette
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Not sure that's the Veteransy exclamation they thought it was, but I like it anyway
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