Very much enjoying We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins. I had no idea it all started right here in Leicester!

Fun fact: Space Development Agency’s rapid acquisition model was born out of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. Mike Griffin who established SDA was also a key player in SDIO. I talk about this in my forthcoming book.

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As far as analogies go…

Other than that it is a completely different sort of war, that the Russians have been responsible for every escalation, and the US is not actually doing any fighting almost a perfect fit.

Again, regular reminder that the fate of the military juntas ruling Mali, Burkina Faso and now Niger will be determined by their ability to defeat insurgent movements that right now are still expanding the territory under their control

The Ukrainian army continues a slow but significant advance in its key southern axis. It's too early to use the word 'breakthrough', and the main Russian defensive belt awaits them

Is Britain getting a bad deal? Ben Hopkinson and I looked at 242 infrastructure projects across 14 different countries.

Our conclusion? It costs more to build new tram systems, railways, and roads in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world. 🧵

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Nice to be quoted and get a book plug in alongside ‘the usual suspects’ of astropolitics 😆 brianweeden Raji Pillai, PhD she/ her Tim Marshall

Many anti-minority language bigots can’t get that Welsh is quite useful if you live in Wales or want to have anything to do with it beyond gawking at the exotic road signs.

Right now, there are amassed protests calling for the overthrow of #Assad in the following #Syria provinces:

- #Suwayda (~12+ localities)
- #Daraa (9+ localities)
- #Raqqa (in #Tabqa & #Raqqa )
- #Hasakeh
- Deir ez Zour
- Northern #Aleppo
- #Idlib

With India’s success in the southern polar region with Chandrayaan 3 this week and having signed onto the Artemis Accords in the last two months, there’s a fair amount of rewriting to do for the scenario for next year’s iteration of my lunar political crisis game…

Street Fighter 7 panned by critics.

Ukraine has inflicted heavy losses on Russian forces in that direction. If Russia was not rotating forces, Ukraine probably would have broken through by now. Compared to Kherson or Kharkiv, Russia now has more manpower and forces available. They can handle attrition better. 2/

I'm still staring at this graph showing UK wage collapse since 2010 vs peer nations. It's absolutely staggering.

“the government can do its part to keep its leverage, recognizing that SpaceX is dependent on government funding, enforcing the basic regulations governing space activity”

💯💯💯

I wrote a little something about this for the Stimson Center a couple of weeks ago ➡️ stimson.org/2023/the-delus…

This horror story visited on South Wales by Suella Braverman could be coming to a street near you.
My column

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'Human commanders trusting in AI tools are in for a surprise they should have seen coming.'

Great writeup of mine and Cameron Hunter's new academic paper in J Strategic Studies on AI, command and strategy in the The Daily Beast by Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky

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To be fair, we were told that the DPRK was launching a satellite into the Yellow Sea.

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