Dan Öberg

Makes me think of a Public Enemy song…

”In times of war, the law falls silent.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Postdoc with a focus on quantitative narrative geopolitics Description The postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary research environment on narrative geopolitics, established with funding from the Swedish Armed Forces. The role involves interdis

Postdoc in Narrative Geopolitics @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

We’re looking for a postdoc w expertise in machine learning, data mining, or related quantitative methods to explore how emotionally charged narratives shape international security & great power politics.

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Dragon Hoarding Enormous Pile of Treasure Seeks Unpaid Intern Dragon seeks smart, motivated intern to help manage a sprawling cavern of various golden treasures. This is the perfect opportunity for a go-getter...

"There is NOT a remote option for this position. A small travel stipend of two gold doubloons will be provided. However, interns must organize their own transportation to and from the subterranean lair."

Biträdande lektor i försvarssystem med inriktning mot cyberförsvar Vill du forska och undervisa i skärningspunkten mellan teknik, samhälle och försvar? Vi söker dig som ganska nyligen disputerat och som har erfarenhet av cyberförsvarsområdet. Vi erbjuder en att

Academic position with focus on Cyber at the Swedish Defence University. Deadline 24 August.

fhs.varbi.com/se/what:job/...

The World According to Military Targeting A revealing account of the prevalence—and alarming ubiquity—of military targeting, and how it has become a self-propelling worldview driven by dominance, v

I’m halfway into this amazing work by Erik Rechborn-Kjennerud that just dropped. I assume it will quickly become a go-to book in the genre. If you are interested in how and with what consequences militaries wage war, do yourself a favor and grab a copy.

direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Vad kul, grattis!

Panel Discussion & Book Launch – War in the Smartphone Age on 2 July 2025 from 18:00-19:00 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

Discussants:
@markgaleotti.bsky.social
@snellarthur.bsky.social
Joelle Rizk

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...

I've just read @williammerrin.bsky.social and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social's fast paced book "Sharded Media".

If you who want to understand the highly fragmented state of our media ecologies and how this framed/shaped Trump's 2024 election then this is for you.
www.amazon.co.uk/SHARDED-MEDI...

My most recent post for Scilicet, on viking history and Swedish national identity

My third book. All published by Oxford University Press.

University: a good idea | Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine A former student of mine has penned an attack on universities, derived from their own disappointing experience studying Politics and International Relations at the place where I ply my trade. In short...

"A well-delivered lecture isn’t primarily a delivery system for information. It is an ignition point for curiosity, all the better for being experienced in an audience."

Marvellous defence of the increasingly maligned university experience by @patporter76.bsky.social
thecritic.co.uk/university-a...

Screendump of an article on multinational mission command

🔔 New article: Mission command in a multinational context.

🧵on NATO's challenges in moving from describing mission command in written doctrine to actual practice.

The article is based on 33 interviews with commanders and senior staff officers. Open access @sjms.bsky.social: sjms.nu/articles/10....

”War has never been just an extension of politics by other means; war…creates its own politics.” - Jim Molan

(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ...

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the
beginning.
- Jean Baudrillard -

I should add that @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social makes this point (about digital / data representation being limited for human affairs) brilliantly in the context of military matters (here and in his PhD thesis) cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications...

This is 🔥

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In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening.

You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh

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“I think we’re overly centralized, overly bureaucratic, and overly risk averse, which is the opposite of what we’re going to need in any type of warfare...”

Across the organisations, staff tend to develop machine-like behaviour.

Why?

A short 🧵 based on: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military – Book Launch From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Covid-19 pandemic, wargames are a key way the US military plays out responses to current crises, explores the effectiveness of future operations and strateg...

Book launch: Aggie Hirst - Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US military, 20th March 3pm - 4.30pm UK time.

See link for more info.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/polit...

YouTube video by Melodifestivalen FINALEN: KAJ - Bara bada bastu

In an epic move, the Finnish band Kaj has conducted a successful coup d’etat in Sweden by winning Melodifestivalen and thereby representing Sweden in this year’s Eurovision

HEJA KAJ PERKELE TORILLE
🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
(I mean 🇸🇪)

Several countries on the Eastern Flank of NATO are considering leaving the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti-personnel mines.

Yesterday, Finland and Poland both announced their intentions to leave the treaty in the coming weeks.

The challenges and opportunities for academics in professional military education Military forces have for centuries sought to improve the intellectual, and as a result operational, effectiveness of their forces through a rigorous curriculum of professional military education (P...

Academics in contemporary professional military education?

In this @defencestudies.bsky.social article, Powell and @historydafydd.bsky.social offer a fine overview of the (enduring?) training vs education debate in #PME and a way forward for academics.

Both training and education are essential.

Artificial intelligence and war Join us for a Director's Seminar with Prof Elke Schwarz, Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London.

I have the honor of speaking at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Director's Seminar next Thursday. The topic is - you guessed it - Artificial Intelligence and War. Come join us! Details below: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp...

Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19 Most of the world went into lockdowns in March 2020 response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but what has been the impact in those that didn't impose strict restrictions?

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Now is the time for Europe to show strength, not division, argues Sanna Marin Finland’s former leader makes the case for stumping up tens of billions more for Ukraine

Sanna Marin throwing some impressive shade here:

”To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it.

There is no trade-off between investing in the defence of Europe as a whole and investing in the defence of Ukraine—they are one and the same.”

"The assumption still reigns, west of Warsaw, that war is something that happens to other people, a long way away"

NEW ARTICLE:

Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social

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