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Associate Professor, Royal Danish Defence College | Co-editor @sjms.bsky.social | Posts about Civil-Military Relations, Politics, Security, and Drug War Absurdities https://research.fak.dk/esploro/profile/christoph_harig/output/all?institution=45FBI_INST

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · Apr 19

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".

Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky

a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters

ALT: a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 12h

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 14h

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 14h

"Mr. Infantino has made it his business to be where Mr. Trump is, no matter the agenda of the day:

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

www.nytimes.com

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Securitas @securitas.bsky.social · 20h

That's dangerously ignorant of the logic the Russians operate within. It invites further and more dangerous provocations as well as sabotage.

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20h

NATO SecGen: “We are so much stronger than the Russians that we don’t need to shoot down their planes when they enter our airspace. If we were weak, we might need to prove ourselves immediately. But if there's no threat, a measured response clearly signaling our displeasure is a much stronger move.”

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 19h

Another great victory against organised crime

Three tiny sad plants that are supposed to be marijuana on a table at a police station. #DrugBust

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 22h

Angriffe nonstop: So kämpft Estlands Cyberarmee

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Cyberkrieg: Angriffe nonstop: So kämpft Estlands Cyberarmee

Netzattacken könnten Estlands hoch digitalisierten Staat zerstören. Seine Cybersoldaten verteidigen ihn täglich gegen Angriffe. Und manchmal schlagen sie zurück.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 1d

"The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?" - "The same procedure as every year, James!"

Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

lol they're doing the thing again

Serving in the U.S. Navy was one of the greatest honors of my life.
Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Navy.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 1d

Aquela feed é a minha versão da gloriosa Apprensão e Arte:
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Wonderful World of Brazilian Drug Bust Photo-Ops

A feed that shows the joyful sides of the failed War on Drugs:
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For those who know me from Twitter: yes, the thread will become a feed here

Toilet bowl with marijuana plant presented as successful DrugBust

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

Again, if the military of a Latin American country acted the way American cops act everyone would think what they were about to do ranged from "a mutiny" to "a coup d'etat"

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 1d

Extra rich coming from Klingbeil who vehemently opposed a crucial new railway because this would have upset voters in his electoral district

www.zeit.de/news/2023-08...

Bahn: Klingbeil gegen Neubau von Bahnstrecke Hannover-Hamburg

Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Bahn“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Klingbeil gegen Neubau von Bahnstrecke Hannover-Hamburg“.

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Amazing:
🇳🇴 Norway’s drone detection system protecting Oslo Airport comes from 🇨🇳 Chinese company DJI Aeroscope, with system updates coming directly from DJI in China.

Unexpectedly that 🇨🇳 system was down for a full 19h from the evening of September 22nd, which is why the airport had to be closed.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon man with a mustache is holding a stick of food .

ALT: a cartoon man with a mustache is holding a stick of food .

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Maduro & Machado seem to be engaged in a bidding war for the Trump admin's support with US companies' access to Venezuela's mineral wealth as the bargaining chip.

Will this lead to a "just and peaceful transition... to democracy" for the people of Venezuela?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

Venezuelan officials, hoping to end their country’s clash with the United States, offered the Trump administration a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that lasted for months, according to multiple people close to the talks.

Under a deal discussed between a senior U.S. official and Mr. Maduro’s top aides, the Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to American companies, give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms.

As Mr. Grenell and Mr. Maduro’s envoys negotiated a deal, the leader of Venezuela’s main opposition movement, María Corina Machado, pitched her own economic proposal in New York.

She argued that even greater economic wealth — $1.7 trillion in 15 years — awaited U.S. companies in Venezuela if her movement launched a political transition. (Ms. Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee described as “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”)

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 2d

Arresting an antifa narco-terrorist frog

Toy frog sitting on a table next to some drugs. DrugBust

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 4d

Today in 1976, Gen. Paul Tibbets (USAF, ret.) re-enacted the bombing of Hiroshima he led on August 6, 1945, at an air show sponsored by the private Confederate Air Force in Harlingen, Texas. As Tibbets flew a B-29 overhead, conventional explosives were detonated on the ground to simulate the bomb.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing a B-29 bomber in flight at the airshow in Harlingen, Texas.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the airshow.

Screenshot from an archival color film showing a mushroom cloud rising from the ground following the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the airshow.

A black and white, undated (circa October 11, 1976) Associated Press wirephoto of the simulated atomic explosion at the air show:

"Mushroom Cloud

A mushroom-shaped cloud rises above Rebel Field at Harlingen, Tex., home of the Confederate Air Force, during a re-enactment of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. The re-enactment of the first A-bomb use in war came over the weekend during an air show."

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

There's no need to listen to me, though! You can also read about the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies here
sjms.nu

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

Learn more about publishing in @sjms.bsky.social!

@sjasmith.bsky.social (editor of @defencestudies.bsky.social) and I had a pleasant chat about publishing in Military Studies with Queen's University's On Defence and Security Podcast series

www.queensu.ca/cidp/podcast...

Publishing On Defence and Security | Centre for International and Defence Policy

Oct 9, 2025 | Podcast | Watch/listen to Episode 1 of 'Publishing On Defence and Security'. Listen on Youtube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify

www.queensu.ca

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

And if you want to see for yourself what part of European politics Machado aligns herself with...

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

Machado also just spoke at a conference of Spain's far-right party VOX alongside Orbán, Babis, Kickl, Andrew Ventura and Milei...

But let's celebrate her anti-authoritarianism!

youtube.com/@vox_espana?...

VOX España

Canal oficial del partido político VOX España. Telegram: https://t.me/s/VOXTelegram

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

VOX España

Canal oficial del partido político VOX España. Telegram: https://t.me/s/VOXTelegram

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

She speaks at rallies of the European far-right and welcomes the US military strikes against Venezuelan boats - I guess we know very well what this opposition politician would be like if they were in power

Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

"But at least Trump didn't win"

Well, here's Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado welcoming the Trump administration's illegal military strikes against her Venezuelan compatriots as "legitimate pressure"

www.dw.com/en/tensions-...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 4d

True "fighters against autocracy" wouldn't speak at far-right rallies with Herbert Kickl, André Ventura, or Viktor Orbán, though...