Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: The Medal of Honor, Heroism, and Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century - Anthony King, Patrick Bury (@patrickbury.bsky.social), 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Good news.👇 Next, start collecting address, basic medical fitness, skills and motivation data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

What about using the data from realtimebillionaires.de with OS location data to track billionaires on here?

How does a CIA psychotherapist respond to staff enquiry forms? 'You're insecurely attached.'

Probably the best John Lennon cover ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvrt...

This advice literally got me through our tour. And it rings true with current politics and life in general: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function…” www.youtube.com/watch?si=-tj...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social you might like this 👇

Ladies and gentlemen I give you #Democrauxcy

By the time you're sure its fascism its too late for sure

These guys are coming for Starmer, UK and German politics next. Once they get in they are not coming out. You have been warned. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

▶️ 'The Long Shadow of the Soviet Sabotage?’, War on the Rocks, shorturl.at/TLhT8 ▶️ 'Russian Sabotage in the Gig-Economy Era', RUSI, co-authored @kloosha.bsky.social, @magslong.bsky.social & @patrickbury.bsky.social, shorturl.at/qp1Z9 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Across the West, the All Volunteer Force is dying. "Driven by increasing individualism associated with untethered consumerism + managerial capitalism... growing numbers of Western young peoples’ values are at odds with the values of collective community, patriotism... 1/5

Booom! "The End of the All-Volunteer Force: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Recruitment and Love Selective Conscription" just dropped on @RUSI_org Journal + free to read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Like if you think a phased but complete smartphone ban is a good idea. Laptops and desktops fine.

"...when it comes to deep strike, the lack of discipline in target selection often leads to a diffusion of effect such that the operational damage inflicted is less than the sum of the objects damaged or destroyed." rusi.org/explore-our-...

In the words of the great strategists the Backstreet Boys: 'two can play that game' abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Here we go folks!

So, here's a paper I was lucky enough to co-author with some great colleagues on info tech and the changing global terrorist landscape. And its free to read folks! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

Aha- this prob part explains why ATACMS now . North Korea gave Russia 20 MLRS guided systems to use in Kursk - so here you go Volodymyr www.ft.com/content/83ad...

Is there a situation where a major war in 2026-27 could be used to extend the US President's tenure?

This is a really good discussion about US Army recruitment. Ultimately, the youth tide is moving away from military insts, and we need much bigger solutions than well-meaning institutional tweaks akin to rearranging decks on the Titanic www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

Some really good ideas in here folks

Insightful stuff on Russia's militayr economy and the risks of it. Unfortunately it looks more like 'a use it or lose it scenario' for them