We're growing further and are hiring again! 2 posts as Assistant/Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College's Institute for Military Operations We're looking for people who are interested in different aspects of military operations, read more below www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...

News: Das Kanzleramt will den BND bei der militärischen Aufklärung stärken. Im Verteidigungsministerium befürchtet man, dass wichtige militärische Kompetenz dem Kanzleramt unterstellt werden könnte. Mit @florianflade.bsky.social ‬⁩ ⬇️ #WDRNDRSZ @recherche.ndr.de www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

📢 We’re hiring: Research Fellow – Financial Crime Policy RUSI is seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead our work on financial crime policy, tackling issues from money laundering and fraud to terrorist and proliferation financing. Apply by 9 February: https://bit.ly/4odf9fA

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Kunst, Kultur und nationale Sicherheitsstrategie

‘Nach Einschätzung aus Sicherheitskreisen ist sie eine hauptberufliche Netzwerkerin, „Kategorie Überzeugungstäterin”’

“It is building the coalitions that work, issue by issue, with partners who share enough common ground to act together.”

Great postdoc opportunity for security & strategy folks ⬇️

He researched a local dance school, his own school, and playgrounds.

“While I was in prison, everything I had ever researched was blown up”

“Die Tat ist zum Politikum geworden. Und zum Symbol für etwas, das größer ist als das Verbrechen: für das Gefühl, dass Sicherheitsversprechen hohl sind, dass Institutionen versagen, dass am Ende niemand zur Rechenschaft gezogen wird.”

In Frankfurt wird seit gestern der 8-jährige Noah vermisst. Wer hat ihn gesehen? www.polizei.hessen.de/vermisste-pe...

The Danish military gears up to defend Greenland www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

What an extraordinary day. Where’s the pause button? Germany will send a small reconnaissance team to Greenland tomorrow.

As the White House hosts Greenland Summit day, read 'the textual equivalent of sitting down for a beer w/someone who just happens to be an expert on Arctic security & wants to fill you in on the backstory to Trump’s recent overtures.' @newstatesman1913.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/4ezeesk4

Danish newspaper @politiken.dk opens ENGLISH LANGUAGE section of its coverage of Greenland. Resource to understand local coverage, analysis, politics, and public opinion ⬇️ politiken.dk/tag/main/gre...

This is a good report about Iranian government efforts to control internet access, including the most recent and most severe cut off during the current protests.

Happy new year from SPIN! Our Winter Newsletter is now out with highlights of all our latest announcements, events, and publications. wp.me/pb19Tu-1gz Do join us this term.

Deadline extended to 21st of January! #surveillance #AI #digitalcriminology

Wer Wind sät…

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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

📄 Call for papers 🙌🏼 King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) is delighted to partner with the Society for Intelligence History (SIH) to host the SIH Annual Conference at King's College London on October 11-13, 2026. @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social (1/8)

After an outlandish trip duration of 192 hours, we’ve finally found our way back home. ❄️ Amsterdam is beautiful in the winter, but Schiphol Airport hasn’t coped well under these conditions. ☃️ Now we’re back to rain and wind in Wales.

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

So many red flags on the way…💰🍾😣

“Just getting to and from the airport outside the Dutch capital was a struggle with frozen points and an early morning software glitch throwing the Netherlands’ rail system into turmoil.” - Yep, my unintended Amsterdam stay continues to be a proper winter ‘experience’

Uncivil War, my book about the British Army and the Troubles in the early 1970s, is out in paperback on 15 January. Come and hear me talk about it at the National Army Museum on 13 February: www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/unc...

❄️ Amsterdam today ❄️

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister of Canada, as his new adviser on Ukraine’s economic development.

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

An unexpected stay in Amsterdam, thanks to winter weather.

⚡️BREAKING: Zelenskyy says he offered intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov the job of heading Ukraine’s Presidential Office.

Happy New Year! It's time to kick off #RecordEveryDayJanuary 🍾 Submit a species sighting each day this month to get your wildlife recording year started and be entered into a prize draw for book tokens 📚

Many of the telecoms and infrastructure projects in the Baltic Sea were thought up when the threat from Russia seemed abstract. Now Germany, Denmark and others are scrambling to protect them—a tough challenge

Das alles hat herzlich wenig mit James Bond zu tun, aber es wäre ein klarer Kurswechsel für den BND. Es wird spannend sein, die Diskussionen zu verfolgen. Die vorgeschlagene Einbindung des PKGr ist interessant.

Come and work for a PhD with us with our full Hans Rausing scholarships for students from anywhere in the world...

If you’d like to hear me talk about my new book in Oxford on 3 February, please come along to All Souls at 1330: www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

Looking forward to speaking at the "Emergency Exits: Discussion Day" at the Imperial War Museum on 28 February. Please join us! www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...

“Das Land verfügt über keine einsatzfähigen Kriegsschiffe. Und doch ist es ihm gelungen, in Kriegszeiten eine Marine ohne Matrosen aufzubauen.”

Discuss the ethics of intelligence: This illegal intelligence collection effort was targeting those stakeholders responsible for building-safety issues flagged up in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire disaster and who fought the responsibility to pay for remediation work.

Good - but also another fix for something that shouldn’t have been broken in the first place, of course.

Absolute brilliant christmas cracker from @philipjcowley.bsky.social here looking at who voters think Santa and Scrooge (and Postman Pat) would support, and what this tells us about party images and partisan projection (and dubious poll headlines) www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

For more than three years, Ukraine has endured Russia’s relentless campaign against its energy infrastructure. While Europe has supported Ukraine with equipment and financing, Kyiv is now returning the favor by advising European states on how to protect their grids.

“Die Politik auf Landesebene war lange nicht wehrhaft genug, hat einer Diskursverschiebung zu wenig entgegengesetzt. In den Schulen und auch in der sozialen Arbeit hat sich ein falscher Neutralitätsbegriff etabliert. Wir dachten zu lange, wir müssen gar nicht unbedingt politisch miteinander sein”

Like other European intelligence services, Danish intelligence is trying to make sense of today’s US and the two countries’ relationship. The tone is changing.

GCHQ’s annual Christmas Challenge has been launched for all the codebreakers out there.

Come work with me! 👩🏻‍💻