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Craig Whiteside
@craigwhiteside.bsky.social
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teach for the Naval War College resident program at NPS in Monterey, CA; The ISIS Reader (Hurst 2020) and Non-state Special Operations (Routledge, 2025); dad, scout, sports fan, and Geronimo
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Great talk with @craigwhiteside.bsky.social on non-state special operations
Sea Control 589: Non-state Special Operations | Sea Control
Lt. Col. (RET) Craig Whiteside, PhD., joins the program to discuss the new book he co-authored with Ian Brown, Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects. Dr. Whiteside shares how to defin...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Need a maneuver warfare “starter pack?” Do the reading w/ “A New Conception of War” & “Snowmobiles & Grand Ideals” from MCUP ([email protected]).

Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:

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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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warontherocks.bsky.social
On the banks of a quiet river, Rome’s finest met the fiercest of Gaul. The result would echo far beyond Belgic soil.
The Importance of the Battle of the Sambre
In the summer of 57 BCE, Julius Caesar found himself deep in Belgic territory, his legions stretched thin and unaware of the trap ahead. On the banks of
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November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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jaketapper.bsky.social
Two stories of veterans honoring their sacrifice of fallen soldiers they never met, from The Outpost:
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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fantastic article, great writing here
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9d
Police spent more than 50 days searching a lake for Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker they assumed had drowned. Then they told his wife that they’d come to believe something different. Jamie Thompson spoke with the people involved in the case that rattled a Wisconsin town:
The Missing Kayaker
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
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November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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ryanevans.bsky.social
Former chairman, Gen (ret) CQ Brown in @warontherocks.bsky.social today with an important article

warontherocks.com/2025/11/raci...
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
In November 2015, I was five months into commanding the air campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Operation Inherent Resolve was in full
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November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Submission no. 500 at the Journal of Scandinavian Military Studies (SJMS) landed this morning!

We publish in the field of military studies: multidisciplinary, practice‑relevant, with Scandinavian roots and a global scope

All open access

Learn more about @sjms.bsky.social: sjms.nu/articles/10....
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Mali JNIM is now operating with increasing confidence & visibility […] well-armed combatants driving around a Malian town bordering Burkina Faso in the middle of a civilian population that does not flee is significant

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Islamist extremists have taken this African country to the brink
A fuel blockade imposed by al-Qaeda-aligned militants has paralyzed the capital of Mali and roiled its repressive military government.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not
carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 28d
Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels
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October 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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admiralstav.bsky.social
On @cnn.com discussing the early retired of U.S. Southern Commander leader, Admiral Holsey, and the use of semi-submersible vessels by drugg smugglers. youtu.be/RQPqVUHR3dg
ADM STAV ON CNN with Brianna Keilar 10 17 25
YouTube video by ADM STAV VIDEOS
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October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jeromed.bsky.social
The book is finally out in the US too www.amazon.com/Transformed-...
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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pwnallthethings.bsky.social
Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
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October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell us.

The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
At least one US military strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in Caribbean targeted Colombians | CNN Politics
At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the ...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
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October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Nancy Youssef is the real deal, met her in a combat zone, cool as a cucumber, doing her thing. Great writer. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Air Advisors are a frequent target in an Air Force that undervalues activities that are hard to quantify.

What better way to advance the idea of burden sharing than to build professional, interoperable, and reliable allies and partners?

irregularwarfare.org/articles/fai...
Failure Bias in Air Advisory Missions
Discover how the U.S. Air Force’s failure bias has shaped decades of decision-making—and why successful air advisory missions deserve renewed attention.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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brianjphillips.bsky.social
Check out this post on "armed group constellations," super interesting!
October 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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zachota.bsky.social
A regular reminder to keep standing up to authoritarians 🇵🇭
October 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents reut.rs/43e10Hb
US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents
A leading expert on U.S.-India relations who has advised successive U.S. administrations has been arrested and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information, including over a thousand pages of top secret and secret documents at his home, court documents showed.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Coming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social in the summer of 2026! @lisablaydes.bsky.social and I edited a book "Ba'thist Iraq through Archives" with a star studded list of contributors!
September 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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September 29 is the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Babyn Yar.

On this day in 1941, the occupying Nazi forces began mass executions of civilians in Kyiv.

This horrific tragedy took over 100,000 innocent lives.
Never forget. Never again.🕯️🧵
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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alexphelan.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our latest article in the TPV special issue on motivations! We explore how gendered narratives and misogyny act as a powerful shared language—connecting identity factors across far-right movements in Australia and the UK 👇🏼

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September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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militarytimes.bsky.social
Retired firefighter Benjamin Broadwell Hagans, 96, has emerged as an eyewitness to the savage executions of three soldiers in 1942, The War Horse reports.
One man’s memory sparks search for US soldiers he saw executed in WWII
Retired firefighter Benjamin Broadwell Hagans, 96, has emerged as an eyewitness to the savage executions of three soldiers in 1942, The War Horse reports.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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wesleymorgan.bsky.social
The Pentagon has finally gotten around to announcing Jonathan Braga as the next commander of JSOC, succeeding Mitch Bradley who is taking over SOCOM.

Braga joined Delta Force in 2002, was a squadron commander there in the surge era, then commanded Delta 2015-17 when it was running the war in Syria.
September 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM