as an aside i just love the title.
This is the logical endpoint of the Pentagon‘s current “lethality“ fixation - destroying things is the point.
It also reflects its civilian leaders’ disregard, if not open contempt, for strategic thinking and the skills & intellectual preparation that support it.
Reminder! Join the BISA Foreign Policy Working Group for an online event "Energy cooperation and competition" on 18 March 2026, 15.00-16.30 (UK Time). Featuring Dr Maísa Edwards, Dr Ignacio Cardone, Prof Rory Miller, and Dr Rodrigo Pedrosa Lyra. www.bisa.ac.uk/events/energ...
Personally, I’d rather have the world’s best solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicles.
Check out this piece w/ @mattmotta.bsky.social on prediction markets as national security threats. It's not only gross and unethical that insiders are seemingly betting on things like operations in Venezuela and Iran--it can also be dangerous.
responsiblestatecraft.org/prediction-m...
Government insiders are making millions on prediction markets. That's not just corrupt -- it's a major national security concern.
Today at RS, @robertralston.bsky.social & I discuss why Congress needs to step up and put an end to insider trading.
responsiblestatecraft.org/prediction-m...
Check out this piece w/ @mattmotta.bsky.social on prediction markets as national security threats. It's not only gross and unethical that insiders are seemingly betting on things like operations in Venezuela and Iran--it can also be dangerous.
responsiblestatecraft.org/prediction-m...
Another crisis in UK-US relations. How does the alliance survive repeated ruptures?
Greg Kennedy & I brought together 14 brilliant scholars to answer that in Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations: How the Alliance Weathers Crises.
Out today with Georgetown University Press. 1/2
This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
The technical term for using violence to upset negotiations is “spoiling” btw
You're telling me that word association tools trained on internet comments don't know how to deescalate?
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
every so often I think about how Sears had an insane Randian executive you decided that every department should have to compete against each other and anyway Sears doesn't exist anymore but the Trump dipshits are going to try and apply this to military personnel management
it's a real slog!
They're far-right utopians. They think if everyone stops doing institutional cooperation in favor of "national sovereignty," then "western civilization" will form as a natural community among the wealthy, white, male, Xtian elites who run the US, the UK, the states of the Former European Union, etc.
Join the BISA Foreign Policy Working Group for an online seminar entitled "Energy cooperation and competition" on 18 March 2026, 15.00-16.30 (UK Time). Featuring Maísa Edwards, PhD, Dr. Ignacio Cardone, Prof Rory Miller, and Dr Rodrigo Pedrosa Lyra. www.bisa.ac.uk/events/energ...
'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
Very, very, very bad
Must-read: "What do we owe soldiers? Evidence from the UK Armed Forces Covenant" from @blagdendavid.bsky.social, Ronald R. Krebs, and Robert Ralston.
Open access - read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
And the US Embassy now removed the flags
nyheder.tv2.dk/live/samfund...
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
I would rather say Rutte should stop dreaming that the US is willing to defend Europe and a reliable partner to do so.
My analysis is that Europeans are not dreaming about that, they are assessing how to make it reality because there's no other option.
great to see this out in AF&S's latest issue!
uncanny
Beginning to think this guy might not be the deepest of strategy thinkers.
If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.
DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
