Before 9/11, CIA repeatedly retained intelligence on Mihdhar and Hazmi even as the FBI was trying to connect them to AQ. The new evidence on the Saudi-linked network around them makes that pattern more consequential... full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

9/11 as a catastrophic systems failure: reassessing the unclassified evidence

A quarter of a century after 9/11, what do we know about the intelligence failure? This article uses catastrophic systems-failure theory and recently declassified official materials to examine five...

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Just out 👇Beyond adding a new theory for understanding intelligence failure, the paper examines the declassified evidence re Saudi facilitation + asks what does this mean for how we understand the previous pattern of repeated CIA failure to share re Mihdar + Hazmi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

9/11 as a catastrophic systems failure: reassessing the unclassified evidence

A quarter of a century after 9/11, what do we know about the intelligence failure? This article uses catastrophic systems-failure theory and recently declassified official materials to examine five...

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Check out this new article in #OnlineFirst! Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: The Medal of Honor, Heroism, and Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century - Anthony King, Patrick Bury (@patrickbury.bsky.social), 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Good news.👇 Next, start collecting address, basic medical fitness, skills and motivation data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

What about using the data from realtimebillionaires.de with OS location data to track billionaires on here?

How does a CIA psychotherapist respond to staff enquiry forms? 'You're insecurely attached.'

Probably the best John Lennon cover ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvrt...

Mother - Kubb

YouTube video by otonoami

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This advice literally got me through our tour. And it rings true with current politics and life in general: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function…” www.youtube.com/watch?si=-tj...

Band of Brothers-Speirs' "Hopeless War" Speech

YouTube video by Christina Lim

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social you might like this 👇

@patrickbury.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ladies and gentlemen I give you #Democrauxcy

Ladies and gentlemen I give you #Democrauxcy

By the time you're sure its fascism its too late for sure

These guys are coming for Starmer, UK and German politics next. Once they get in they are not coming out. You have been warned. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Elon Musk accused of giving ‘Nazi salute’ at Trump inauguration celebration

The world’s richest man drew a ton of attention over an ill-advised ‘salute’ he did on stage, with many likening it to a Nazi gesture

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▶️ 'The Long Shadow of the Soviet Sabotage?’, War on the Rocks, shorturl.at/TLhT8 ▶️ 'Russian Sabotage in the Gig-Economy Era', RUSI, co-authored @kloosha.bsky.social, @magslong.bsky.social & @patrickbury.bsky.social, shorturl.at/qp1Z9 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? - War on the Rocks

Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of

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Across the West, the All Volunteer Force is dying. "Driven by increasing individualism associated with untethered consumerism + managerial capitalism... growing numbers of Western young peoples’ values are at odds with the values of collective community, patriotism... 1/5

Booom! "The End of the All-Volunteer Force: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Recruitment and Love Selective Conscription" just dropped on @RUSI_org Journal + free to read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The End of the All-Volunteer Force

Due to wider social, cultural and economic change, British youth are less understanding and supportive of, and less motivated to serve in, the armed forces. Meanwhile, the British all-volunteer for...

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Like if you think a phased but complete smartphone ban is a good idea. Laptops and desktops fine.

"...when it comes to deep strike, the lack of discipline in target selection often leads to a diffusion of effect such that the operational damage inflicted is less than the sum of the objects damaged or destroyed." rusi.org/explore-our-...

Making the Most of Ukraine’s Freedom to Strike Russia

ATACMS striking Russia provide an opportunity to inflict significant damage. To take advantage of this, however, the targets must align with a wider plan.

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In the words of the great strategists the Backstreet Boys: 'two can play that game' abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Here we go folks!

Corporal Frisk@corporalfrisk.com · 2y ago

Finnish state company Cinia has held a presser re issue with the C-Lion1 cable connecting Helsinki to Rostock cable. The hypothesis is that it is completely cut close to Öland, and that this is the result of external forces (though no particular indication of sabotage) yle.fi/a/74-20125395

So, here's a paper I was lucky enough to co-author with some great colleagues on info tech and the changing global terrorist landscape. And its free to read folks! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

Bytes not waves: information communication technologies, global jihadism and counterterrorism

Abstract. Rapoport's conceptualization of the last, religious wave of four global waves remains highly influential. But it, and other typologies, have plac

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Aha- this prob part explains why ATACMS now . North Korea gave Russia 20 MLRS guided systems to use in Kursk - so here you go Volodymyr www.ft.com/content/83ad...

North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems

Ukrainian intelligence says weapons being sent to Russia’s Kursk region to attack Kyiv’s forces

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Is there a situation where a major war in 2026-27 could be used to extend the US President's tenure?

This is a really good discussion about US Army recruitment. Ultimately, the youth tide is moving away from military insts, and we need much bigger solutions than well-meaning institutional tweaks akin to rearranging decks on the Titanic www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

Selling America: The Army’s fight for recruits - The Washington Post

Across the United States, the Army is struggling to recruit young people as fewer can – and want – to join the military. Today, how recruiters in New Jersey are tackling a recruitment slump.

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Some really good ideas in here folks

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pretty good roadmap here from @brianstelter.bsky.social (and not just because he quotes me in it!) on how big media has to change to save itself.... if you believe that's still possible... www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/m...

Insightful stuff on Russia's militayr economy and the risks of it. Unfortunately it looks more like 'a use it or lose it scenario' for them

Benjamin Tallis@bctallis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excellent article on Russia’s mounting economic & Defence industrial woes that - busts the myth of inevitable Russian victory - shows the need for ‘Competitive Strategies’ that turn the screws & exacerbate Russia’s weaknesses foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/r... Marc deVore & Alexander Mertens