#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Unpicking the martial theory of mind: Time, space, and technology in the conduct of war - https://cup.org/3SsRPAj - Alex Neads & @djgalbreath.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

🚀🪖 New and essential reading: "Unpicking the martial theory of mind: Time, space, and technology in the conduct of war" by Alex Neads and @djgalbreath.bsky.social. 📑👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The thing about the far right and white supremacist and ethno-nationalist wankers is that their world view needs racial identity and ethic hierarchy to make sense to themselves.

There's poetry out of tragedy, and the poetical tragedy of this. Hopefully nestlings won't be harmed by this, too.

To quote @patporter76.bsky.social, we cannot be stronger AND greener. Realpolitik vs Earthpolitik

The Ministry of Defence has been criticised for buying standard steel from China that British mills produce, with the head of Make UK Defence calling the practice unacceptable as a new 50 per cent steel tariff approaches. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=69813

🇷🇺 A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather than relying on fake accounts. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has likely developed a false perception of the Russian military's successes in Ukraine based on heavily exaggerated maps from the Russian high military command. Full Report: isw.pub/UkrWar052826 Other Key Takeaways:

Three tankers loaded with LNG appear to have crossed the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, as suppliers in Qatar and the UAE attempt to get fuel out to key buyers despite the near-total closure of the waterway

The UK will accelerate delivery of air defense systems to Ukraine, says UK Defense Secretary John Healey. “I've directed for UK deliveries of air defense and counter-drone systems to be accelerated as fast as possible." He further stated "we stand with Ukraine in the face of Putin's aggression.”

my biggest takeaway is that voters think there’s something intrinsically English about the Farage brand, and yet his policy preferences owe more to MAGA radicalism than to traditional English shires

#Chile’s far-right shift under #Kast isn’t an outlier. In our new @ideopop.bsky.social @iirprague.bsky.social policy paper with @lesliewehner.bsky.social, we analyse how #LatinAmerica’s rightward turn reshapes global politics and what it means for #Europe. Read here: www.iir.cz/en/the-rise-...

Top tip: Convince everyone you are not part of the establishment by taking a £5M personal gift from a expat political donor, fail to declare it, then get visibly annoyed every time it’s mentioned #Farage

REP. POWELL: “THE CALL OF THE GOVERNOR IS ILLEGAL… what are our laws if we can come in here and break them??” (As speaker Sexton kicks out an actual CROSSVILLE resident from the gallery) #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee

A command post that works perfectly at a training center would be destroyed in hours by a near-peer adversary. That gap is a problem the Army can no longer ignore.

Some of you may not be familiar with my "no go zone" oeuvre....This remains some of my finest work. metro.co.uk/2018/02/05/f...

I was in the USA for a week last month, and several people assured me that London was "run by Muslims" "under Sharia law" and/or "had no go zones" and I really had to work hard to disabuse a few individuals of this nonsense.

Gas is $4.56 a gallon Let's check in on what the president is working on today:

This Times story doesn't mention it, so I will: When Ron DeSantis briefly taught high school in his 20s, some students "questioned the focus, and sometimes the accuracy, of his lessons," and mocked "his takes on the Civil War" in a satirical video...for the video yearbook.

Again: The Trump theory of international relations is other countries are NPCs who can't be bent to our will if we pass an intimidation check. The idea that they might have their own interests is utterly alien.

Three Western intelligence officials from different countries have told The Associated Press that a campaign of targeted killings they blame on Russia has ramped up since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

I know we all know that the police could, in fact, track down mobile phones if they thought it was worth their time, but it is nonetheless galling to have it confirmed.

NEW: For the last decade, nothing has been able to unite left and right in America.....until now. In recent weeks, the far-right and the woke left have come together to boost baseless conspiracy theories that Trump is staging his own assassination attempts www.wired.com/story/there-...

Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kelly’s show today.

"The Chinese side demands that the Ukrainian side, in accordance with the provisions of international law, ensure the legal rights and interests of Chinese citizens (who have been taken as prisoners of war by Ukraine), as well as their humane treatment." - Chinese FM spokesperson Lin Jian.

"Our grandfathers were brothers in the trenches. History has torn us apart. But Victory Day is a memory that cannot be divided." - these are the kinds of propaganda leaflets Russia has been dropping in Sumy this morning.

“Turning points are usually only clear in retrospect, but Iran and the Greenland crisis may prove to be the turning points that confirmed what negotiations over Ukraine merely suggested: This United States, far from being an ally of Europe, acts against Europe.”

Russia has already launched its spring-summer offensive, according to the head of communications of Ukraine’s Joint Forces grouping.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social it is like Iran is listening into your thoughts - You asked about the seafarer health and well-being and Iran releases this the very next morning... More shots fired in the ongoing PR war.

'Trump is trapped by his own strategy as he grapples for an exit in Iran' edition.cnn.com/2026/05/07/p...

Wow?! BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech. Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech

Some thoughts on what a peace could look like in the Iran war. More Obama than Trump would like. theconversation.com/middle-east-...

Nato has weathered past divisions, but the Iran war highlights growing US disenchantment. In this article, David Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social at University of Bath explores the strain on transatlantic relations and why #Nato still matters for Europe. 📝 blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2026...

New OA article: Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment by Jack Bonner and @djgalbreath.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

The latest episodes are sufficient to clarify that when Hegseth rages about "woke" thought and DEI, this is the equivalent of using the n-word. He uses it to ground the dismissal of men and women who earned their positions on peer-reviewed merit. Because of their skin color.

THE ROLLING CULL OF OFFICERS IN THE US MILITARY First, Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Second, the head of U.S. Naval Reserves. Third, the commander of Naval Special Warfare Command. Fourth, General Timothy Haugh, former director of the NSA.

My thoughts on the Trump challenge to NATO. Why we have to take it seriously but also see it in context of the alliance itself.

Supply chain shocks are destroying the arguments for defence to support Global Britain. The UK has kicked the can down the road for 2 decades, trying to maintain balanced forces. Now the UK must focus: sea, air or land; Europe or Indo-Pac. It can’t afford to do it all.

Russian war bloggers say Iskander accuracy is a mess, with misses that can be up to a kilometer.

"self-reliance" says the guy who makes all the unrepairable devices and fucked off to Malaysia

❗️Russia is sharing intelligence on the Middle East with Iran: Ukraine has already informed the United States about this twice, — Zelenskyy This includes, in particular, satellite images of objects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan, the President said in an interview with News Nation.

Anthropomorphisation, belief and probabilistic reasoning make for one hell of a cocktail.

Kirill Dmitriev says the EU’s energy crisis is really just “Russophobic ideology” plus “green” and “woke” thinking. The EU is only issuing warnings with no real fixes, he claims.

Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.

A Shahed crashed between a kindergarten and a school in Vyshneve, Kyiv region, local channels report.

Russian infrastructure is manifesting the deterioration caused by resource diversions to the war.

This a lot less significant (in both economic and environmental terms) than either side think, and it's a sign of how unserious politics is at the moment that the whole thing has become such a totem.