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?
No point. Because Supreme Court. Its all over, baby blue.
How does a CIA psychotherapist respond to staff enquiry forms?
'You're insecurely attached.'
Its perfectly fine to argue both Andy.
Probably the best John Lennon cover ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvrt...
Intelligent life forms ultimately create the technologies that destroy them
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...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social you might like this 👇
Ladies and gentlemen I give you #Democrauxcy
By the time you're sure its fascism its too late for sure
The next pandemic will allow the president to bring in extraordinary measures
Its over. The money, the info environment and the organisation. Now they want you to detune.
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...
▶️ '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
There's other things to do on these too... more details free to read here folks 👇 5/5 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
First, to increase recruits + force resilience; second, to collect the required data to establish the bones of a rapidly scalable mobilisation system; + third, to increase military–civilian ties, increase societal cohesion + resilience, + improve deterrence." 4/5
national military service +/or conscription models that complement their professional volunteer forces. The British government should carefully consider the benefits + costs of integrating a hybrid recruitment approach in their force designs the Defence Review for 3 reasons: 3/5
..self-sacrifice + intrinsic motivations that have traditionally underpinned military service + are present in the most motivated soldiers... Europe is increasingly ditching the AVF + coalescing around hybrid forms of force recruitment and retention, based on selective... 2/5
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....
We need to get a grip of ASD in these units - as ASD = increased correlation of extreme behaviours. Its a team mgmt and personal awareness issue.
Like if you think a phased but complete smartphone ban is a good idea. Laptops and desktops fine.
On the upside, no nukes likely yet!
A potentially very lethal missile to be fair
"...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-...
They are air launched tho?
Isn't the Storm Shadow variant the 250km range variant?