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Honestly, one thing that seems to bind senior members of the Trump administration is their weird and somewhat disturbing relationship with women. Getting dumped when you were 19 and never getting over it should not influence US security policy. Just an opinion.

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I listened to the latest @warontherocks.bsky.social podcast yesterday, on the “diplomatic” wrangling over Ukraine’s future: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... It made stark the many parallels between these developments & the negotiations to end the war in #Afghanistan. A 🧵 on those. 1/n

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

What’s next? U.S. EUCOM and U.S. STRATCOM?

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Good chat on US extended deterrence & Europe, w/ @nktpnd.bsky.social, @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social & Vipin Narang (WOTR subscribers). Vipin argues worst case is US keeping nuc posture in Eur intact but essentially checking out, taking no interest in making it credible warontherocks.com/episode/thin...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Fast? He waited 3.5 months while pretending to voters that debt break reform was not really necessary. He missed not only the chance to get the reform done while 2/3 majority existed (despite myriad warnings) but also to prepare voters for the scale of investments in defense that will now be needed.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Ist wirklich eine Frage auch an Medien. Wie im Himmel ist es bei dieser Gefahrenlage auch für deutsche Bürgerinnen und Bürger möglich, dass die erste ernsthafte Debatte zu Sicherheitspolitik mit Parteispitzen 3 Sunden nach der Wahl stattfindet.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Not trying to alarm people but just noting that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among their other important functions, is also one of the small number of people explicitly designated for translating Presidential nuclear strike orders into reality. www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/d...

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

If the Trump administration causes disarray in the U.S. military by firing vast numbers of general officers, Europe will also need to ask whether the United States will actually be able to come to the defense of Europe...

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Diskursverschiebungen, Angriffe auf kritische Infrastruktur & fehlende internationale Normen – Frieden im #Cyberspace zu realisieren, ist ein langwieriger Prozess. @cyberpeace1.bsky.social erläutert die Herausforderungen dafür im #PRIFBlog. blog.prif.org/2025/01/14/f...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Angriffe auf kritische Infrastruktur, Cyberkriminalität oder Desinformation: Cybersicherheit ist eine zentrale gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Welche Rolle spielt sie in den Wahlprogrammen? Die Analyse von Clara Perras & @cyberpeace1.bsky.social auf dem #PRIFblog ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2025/01/30/c...

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Neue Technologien sind längst eine Wirklichkeit in bewaffneten Konflikten. Zu Gast bei Women in International Security setzte sich @liskasuckau.bsky.social dabei auch kritisch mit dem Konzept der Disruption auseinander. www.cntrarmscontrol.org/de/news/nach...

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Wie wird #KI im Militär eingesetzt & was bedeutet sie für die Rüstungskontrolle? Den Vortrag von @niklasschoernig.bsky.social bei der Polytechnischen Gesellschaft Frankfurt mit anschließender Diskussion gibt es auf Youtube zum Nachschauen. ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2n7...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

When I spent time in the UK over the last years, my impression was that trains across the channel were actually more reliable than those in Germany. Looks like I wasn‘t wrong...

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In touching off another round of Mercator debate, Trump has also rendered the whole subject moot. Whether or not the Mercator projection implicitly fosters imperialist attitudes doesn’t really matter when the president is explicitly fostering them himself. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Good analysis by @adamtooze.bsky.social of Vance's MSC speech: "If Europe wants to be able to dismiss the sophomoric antics of Vance et al in the way they should, they need to be able to provide for their own security." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

„Nuclear security is highly specialized, high-pressure work, but it's not particularly well paid, one employee told NPR. Given what's unfolded over the past 24 hours, ‚why would anybody want to take these jobs?‘ they asked.“

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Auch die „National Nuclear Security Administration“ (NNSA), die sich um das Kernwaffenarsenal der USA kümmert, ist von der Entlassungswelle betroffen.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re attending #MSC2025, give the @munsecconf.bsky.social / @prif.org Decisionmaker Scenario Exercise a look. It is entirely anonymous, will take no more than 6 minutes of your time and my colleagues even claim it’s fun! You will find the survey in the conference platform/app under “Survey.”

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant to see @lydiawachs.bsky.social is now here. Do follow if you are interested in Security and Defence, including nuclear.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

In a letter to President Reagan, Soviet General Secretary Breznev proposed a moratorium on the deployment of new intermediate-range nuclear forces in the USSR and Europe. The letter is dated March 6, 1981 – more than two years before the United States would deploy Pershing IIs in West Germany.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 18 days ago • 461 comments

Was muss die nächste Bundesregierung tun, um eine Antwort auf die Bedrohung durch russische Atomwaffen geben zu können? @rafaelloss.bsky.social und @frankkuhn.bsky.social diskutieren im Gastbeitrag für den @tagesspiegel.de www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...

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Die SPD möchte sich für einen weltweiten Verzicht auf den Ersteinsatz von Atomwaffen (“No First-Use”) einsetzen. Warum das in der aktuellen Sicherheitslage keine sonderlich gute Idee ist, haben der geschätzte @rafaelloss.bsky.social und ich diese Woche für den Tagesspiegel aufgeschrieben. (€)

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Mit dem klugen @frankkuhn.bsky.social für den Tagesspiegel: www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/bedr... Ein Verzicht auf den Ersteinsatz von Atomwaffen um nukleare Risiken einzuhegen? Das riskiert Chinas rasante nukleare Aufrüstung vor internationaler Kritik abzuschirmen und die Nato zu spalten.

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Neues Interview über mein Buch und die Zukunft der Kriegsführung! Die russisch-ukrainische Front dient als Experimentierfeld für neue Technologien. Doch es gibt viele falsche Vorstellungen darüber, wie Krieg heute und in Zukunft geführt wird. www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

It seems to me that those who thought that bureaucratic inertia and vested interests - especially in the National Security State - would obstruct the second Trump administration were wrong. www.reuters.com/world/us/cia...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Wie geht die deutsche Regierung in diesem Wahlkampf mit Desinformation um? Und welche Rolle spielt die neu eingerichtete Zentrale Stelle zur Erkennung ausländischer Informationsmanipulation (ZEAM)? Hier geht es zu meinem Blogbeitrag:

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

FRUS is apparently backed up on github but I don't really know what that means or how I can use it for research. Can anyone help? github.com/HistoryAtSta...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 29 days ago • 237 comments

"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power" www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

submitted 30 days ago • 120 comments

I wonder if this supposed wartime military command center in Bejing is one of the “certain harder and large-area military targets” the U.S. Department of Defense had in mind when it decided to pursue the B61-13 nuclear bomb, which will have a similar yield to the B61-7, in autumn 2023...

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Mit welcher Agenda zu Russlands Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine ziehen die Parteien in die Bundestagswahl? Jonas J. Driedger und Thorsten Gromes analysieren die Wahlprogramme von CDU/CSU, AfD, SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, BSW, FDP und Die Linke. Jetzt auf dem #PRIFblog ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2025/01/29/d...

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