It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!
08.10.2025 06:03 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Stephen Roskill puncturing the integrated deterrence balloon 60 years before it was even the twinkle in a US think tanker’s eye!
02.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 Delighted to share that I’ve just signed with Oxford University Press to write my next book: looking at how ideas about Western civilisation shape (and are shaped by) the design and use of military technology.
29.09.2025 21:09 — 👍 50 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Law Doesn’t Keep Submarine Cables From Sabotage. Russia And China Know It.
Six undersea cables in the Baltic Sea and Taiwan Strait have been severed since November. Russia and China may be exploiting gaps in international law.
A good primer on undersea cables, their status under international law and why the 1884 Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables and UNCLOS are insufficient to deal with this most hybrid of current security issues.
www.forbes.com/sites/jillgo...
14.02.2025 09:07 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Looking fit to make Freddie Mercury's rocking world go round, HMS Glatton sits in dry dock. It's very very definitely all about that bass. Wooden keel blocks enable the ship to improbably levitate above the floor of the equally massive dock.
This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton.
And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...
16.09.2025 19:50 — 👍 467 🔁 94 💬 22 📌 39
YouTube video by Maritime Matters
Episode 35: Exercise Alon & a Mogami-Hunter Comparison
The latest episode of #MaritimeMatters is out 🎙️🚢
@japarker29.bsky.social & I talk about Exercise Alon, USMC ASW, Hunter/Mogami comparison & a whole lot more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=St3Y...
soundcloud.com/maritimematt...
02.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Maritime Matters
Episode 35: Exercise Alon & a Mogami-Hunter Comparison
The latest episode of #MaritimeMatters is out 🎙️🚢
@japarker29.bsky.social & I talk about Exercise Alon, USMC ASW, Hunter/Mogami comparison & a whole lot more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=St3Y...
soundcloud.com/maritimematt...
02.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Eighty years ago today, Japan surrendered after nearly four years of war in the Asia-Pacific. For Australia, this meant the end of not only the war in the Pacific, but also the second world War that had begun six years earlier, in September 1939.
15.08.2025 00:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🎙️Latest ep of #maritimematters is out, in this ep @redunley.bsky.social & I discuss everything from 🇦🇺's recent frigate decision to 🇨🇳🇷🇺 naval task groups
You can watch the full episode here youtu.be/BhO9PshRRwo?... or wherever you get your pods
(@redunley this clips for you 😉)
12.08.2025 06:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Maritime Matters
Episode 33: Talisman Sabre & the Geelong Treaty
The latest #MaritimeMatters podcast is out.
@japarker29.bsky.social r29 and I discuss all things Talisman Sabre, Geelong Treaty, AUKUS and much more. ⛴️🎙️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQS...
soundcloud.com/maritimematt...
29.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AUKUS: Building confidence in Australia’s submarine pathway
Promises need to shift to performance, judged against a published timeline.
Insightful piece from
@japarker29.bsky.social
focusing on the deliverables for AUKUS, and highlighting 🇦🇺’s dubious record on infrastructure building.
My only query is whether current high level issues encourage 🇦🇺 govt to “lean in” to AUKUS? I’m not so sure.
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
14.07.2025 07:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I have absolutely no idea about the state of Iran’s ☢️ programme, but I do know that immense damage is being done to the credibility of any 🇺🇸 intelligence assessment.
25.06.2025 22:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Well this is a side to you that I never expected to discover!
24.06.2025 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I wasn’t sure if that was pre-existing text as reader registration was already a part of the process - but hopefully you are right
24.06.2025 23:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Seeming closure of NARA College Park for researchers.
Despite the ironic cheers from those who’ve had to work there, it’s super worrying.
24.06.2025 23:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
😂😂😂😂😂
23.06.2025 22:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks!
16.06.2025 23:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Survey of Australian Public Opinion on Defence
For anyone interested in public attitudes towards the ADF, the full report from the survey we conducted at UNSW Canberra is now out.
www.unsw.edu.au/canberra/abo...
15.06.2025 23:31 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
There is a real risk that if 🇺🇸 tries to use its position to either improve the deal, or leverage other issues such as wider defence spending, it could rapidly erode that trust.
The real Q is whether 🇺🇸 acknowledge or really care about that risk
2/2
12.06.2025 22:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈
Canberra/Naarm
Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Co-I with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Gallipoli Cipher Officer
https://littlegully.com/books/inside-ghq-the-gallipoli-diary-of-captain-orlo-williams/
A joint initiative of the Australian Government and ANU. Post-grad studies | Executive & professional development | Public policy. CRICOS provider 00120C.
Postdoc at ANU working on politics of expertise and emerging weapons tech, political economy of militarism, Australian foreign & defence policy. Views my own
Defence researcher @ Australian Parliamentary Library. Acquisition, budget, technology, strategy, civil-military and public law. Follower only. I try not to have opinions.
I write about the German army before and during the First World War. PhD, FRHistS. www.tonycowan.com
Assistant Prof of Transatlantic and North American History @uni-freiburg.de; US food aid | blockades | postwar
Assoc Prof at the University of Exeter's Strategy and Security Institute. Also currently: NATO Defence College, RN Strategic Studies Centre, UofE Press (co-edit the 'Exeter Strategic & Security Studies' book series). @blagden_david on The Other Place.
Historian (PhD) at Sweden’s National Defence University. Dabbles in Memory/Intelligence Analysis/Peace and Conflict Studies but would much rather be an Unspeakable at the Department of Mysteries.
Dad, Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, (post-)Soviet wars, columnist @VLT, plant eater.
PhD student in military history at the Swedish Defence University. Human- Animal relations in war and military preparations (Sweden and Finland, 1917-1970)
Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. Co-editor/chair of 'New Intelligence Studies'. Critical & sociological analyses of intelligence, defence, and military education.
Professor Military History
Swedish National Defence University
Have written on Russo-Nordic relations and Baltic Sea History
Geopolitics
Cold War History
Normally @ Swedish Defence University. I mostly study change, tactics, and drones.
PhD Student, Swedish Defence University
Military historian, Ass.Prof. in military history at Swedish Defence University and also at the Finnish Defence University. Currently writing on operational thinking in the Baltic Sea region. The views expressed are my own.
University Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Visiting at the Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University. And probably a few other things.
Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University
PhD student in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University
