A few thoughts on possible US-Iran conflict (1/11):
19.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 122 🔁 56 💬 6 📌 13
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
12.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Thucydides Could Really Teach Trump
The Trump administration’s embrace of coercion, transactional alliance politics and performative displays of strength is often defended as hard-headed realism in an unforgiving international system...
What Thucydides Could Really Teach Trump
“Athens did not fall because it lacked power; power changed Athens”
#realism #geopolitics #Thucydides #War #restraint #Pericles #power #strategy #alliances #Trump #narrative #nato #hubris #melos
10.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The UK Ministry of Defence, “Low-Carbon Warfare,” and the struggle to construct novel sociotechnical imaginaries of future war
Why do defence organizations take some imaginaries of future warfare more seriously than others? In this article, we use the concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to chart the struggle of a vangu...
IRPH's Dr Duncan Depledge, Dr Tamiris Santos (@tamispsantos.bsky.social), and Dr Tom Hobson have a paper in Contemporary Security Policy's latest issue. You can read 'The UK Ministry of Defence, “Low-Carbon Warfare,” and the struggle to construct novel sociotechnical imaginaries of future war' now.
09.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The UK Whole of Society Defence and the Reality of Modern War
The national conversation must address society's preparations to defend itself, reimagining the citizen solider of the 21st century, and every sector's role in this effort.
'The question is not whether the British public will rise to the occasion, it is whether they will be properly equipped to do so effectively, ahead of time.' write Ed Arnold and Major Laurence Thomson in the latest RUSI Commentary.
09.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Caught red-handed! Sorry Neville. Perhaps an indefensible usage, but I do feel it neatly conveys a core theme of his work. That's why I frame it as a 'Thucydidean precept' & quote you, alongside a proviso. If it didn't exist, I would have concluded by saying something similar (no doubt less well).
06.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What Thucydides Could Really Teach Trump
The Trump administration’s embrace of coercion, transactional alliance politics and performative displays of strength is often defended as hard-headed realism in an unforgiving international system...
Trump and his aides invoke frequently Thucydides when they discuss American foreign policy, but misunderstand or misrepresent his words. In a new paper, IRPH's Dr Tom Waldman (Senior Lecturer in Security Studies) asks what Thucydides could REALLY teach Trump.
05.02.2026 09:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
UK defence and security blog at www.thinkdefence.co.uk
One of the UK's largest independent defence and technology news websites.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
Head of Net Assessment @ NATO, author, and retired academic, writing in personal capacity.
The premier military institution for preparing airpower leaders who solve problems at the operational level of war
Assistant Professor in War, Peace, and Justice at Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/malte-riemann#tab-1
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/security-studies/book277843
IR scholar working at the intersection of war, technology, and culture | Interested in US foreign policy, military applications of AI, and great power competition
Professor @Penn @perryworldhouse. Senior Fellow @CFR. Former DASD for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. Defense, #AI, and innovation. Always Boston. Views my own.
Interdisciplinary network of Masters, PhD & ECRs, focused on defence, security & military topics in relation to policy, strategy, history, culture & society.
The Department of War Studies at King's College London | Contact: comms-soss@kcl.ac.uk
Website: kcl.ac.uk/warstudies
Podcast: https://bit.ly/WarStudiesPodcast
Fellow, Center for Security and Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit und Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
The Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) is a multi-disciplinary research & teaching group. Part of @WarStudies @KingsCollegeLondon
Springer/Palgrave Journal of Digital War
Edited by Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin, Michael Richardson, Anthony Downey and Gregory Asmolov
The Kennan Institute is an independent, non-partisan institute for research on Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and the post-Soviet states.
Russia | Middle East | Nuclear weapons | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr. Associate @erep.csis.org | Fellow @kennaninstitute.bsky.social | Upcoming book WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM @wwnorton.com | Berlin-based
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Film-maker. Stalking survivor. Views mine.
CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
