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The Royal Danish Defence College invites applications for Associate Professor in Military Operations or Assistant Professor We are looking for expertise in the study of warfare and military operations, including (but not limited to) intelligence, military theory, country- or region-s

Our team at Centre for Joint Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College is looking for new Assistant/Associate Professors

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We're growing further and are hiring again!

2 posts as Assistant/Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College's Institute for Military Operations

We're looking for people who are interested in different aspects of military operations, read more below

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Serious lowball offer!

Trump push to politicize US military ‘reminiscent of Stalin’, top general warns Maj Gen Paul Eaton says US president’s effort to bend military to his will could have dire long-term consequences

Well, at least some retired generals are pointing out the obvious risks of the military's personal loyalty to Trump*

*you wouldn't need a Stalin comparison for that, though
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This counts as being forewarned (althought that’s not the same thing as being forearmed)

Poor old 'apolitical' military leaders, being driven to execute those illegal orders like sheep to the slaughter

Sadly this rings true based on my 8 years of teaching in the Danish PME system - great students under a lot of time pressure, but very little support with the Danish Defence for their intellectual development

Trump is turning the US military into a political prop | Jan-Werner Müller The military has been recast in a partisan, performative mold – all according to the president’s logic of impunity

'the question of what those in uniform will do in pivotal moments for democracy is, alas, becoming more relevant by the day'
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"There's an undemocratic politicisation of the country's leading military research institution when researchers are restricted in both their freedom of expression and their right to conduct research freely.

This is the opinion of several of the Danish Parliament's defence spokespeople"

Pivot to the Western Hemisphere

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....

Hey, you! Do you worry about executive abuse of military authority, but need a framework to analyze it? Well stop *worrying.* My new article on "executive shirking" is out from Perspectives on Politics. Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on this one! #civmilbluesky

The indirect approach to the indirect approach?

Brazil’s Bolsonaro was convicted but the military appetite for a coup lingers Armed forces academies teach troops that military control would be better for the country, historians and experts say

The Brazilian military's superiority complex is deeply embedded in its role conceptions-its PME institutions still transmit the 'good military vs corrupt/communist civilians' worldview

Brazil’s Bolsonaro was convicted but the military appetite for a coup lingers
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“Eyes on, hands off.” Mission command sounds simple, but micromanagement often creeps in. Too detailed orders, risk aversion, and a lack of trust make implementation difficult.

Currently in Stockholm to teach our latest in Mission Command in NATO.

📚 sjms.nu/articles/10.... (open access)

I have just encountered this too and find it unsettling. Are the reviewers of the book review reviewing the accuracy of the book review? In that case they should have read the book closely. Are they just checking that the review is coherent? If so, it would be misleading to say they’re reviewers…

And the US military is now in 'repeatedly obeying illegal orders' territory

“When Trump fired the military’s top lawyers the rest saw the writing on the wall, and instead of being a critical firebreak they are now a rubber stamp complicit in this crime.”

Centrale kilder: Mænd med forbindelser til Trump forsøger at infiltrere Grønland Grønland er mål for påvirkningskampagner, der skal slå sprækker i forholdet til Danmark, oplyser Politiets Efterretningstjeneste.

Danish state TV says men with close connections to Trump are trying to infiltrate Greenland - one of them arguably is creating list of local people who would support Trump's desire to take over Greenland

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects Published in Terrorism and Political Violence (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Got our first book review for Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects in @terpolv.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
#CivMilSky
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It's a strange feeling after all the years of irresponsible defense cuts, but I really do believe (and proudly so) that Denmark is one countries in Europe that best have understood the new security situation and makes the right decisions. Nice to see that @alanderminna.bsky.social has noticed too.

Why spend more on defense in Western Europe? YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen

There is a lot of talk about higher defense spending in NATO, but I think many politicians have failed to explain adequately why that is necessary. So in this video I explain what is at stake for citizens in Western European countries.

Or that incompetent people can continue to fail for ages and ages

BSTRACTThere is a widespread consensus that armed forces are not suited for lawenforcement tasks. Most arguments against using troops in public securityare based on the lack of appropriate training and the military’s difficulty inpractising restraint when using force. Brazil has nonetheless militarised itspublic security provision by increasingly deploying soldiers in‘Guaranteeing Law and Order’ (GLO) operations – at times evenjustifying these missions with the military’s experience in UNpeacekeeping. Drawing on survey research, interviews and focus groupswith troops as well as the observation of training exercises, this articleasks: how has the participation in these missions affected troops’perceived skills in law enforcement? What kind of lessons are theytransferring from UN peacekeeping to internal missions and vice-versa?What are their perspectives on having to apply coercion gradually? Itwill be argued that soldiers perceive to have gained a considerableamount of law enforcement skills during UN peacekeeping and GLOoperations. However, there are clear limitations in critical situations.Soldiers and officers felt restricted by rules of engagement andconsidered the greater use of force allowed in UN peacekeeping asnecessary for the mission’s effectiveness. Not being allowed to act in asimilar manner in GLO operations has led to high levels of frustrationamong soldiers and officers. In the trade-off between the rule of law andeffective actions against criminals, troops tend to prefer the latter. Thisunderlines the risk of deploying soldiers in law enforcement roles.

When discussing the use of the military in law enforcement, I really don't like the "soldiers are only trained to kill" argument - it's much more complicated than that, but still a very bad idea*

(*Sad when old research becomes timely)
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Recommend everyone read this article by Christoph and Chiara

And yet, would anyone think US Congress would then impeach Trump?

Knock-on Risks to NATO’s Space-based War-fighting Capabilities NATO is more vulnerable to a war in the Indo-Pacific than is commonly understood. In a conflict between the United States and China, key US space-based capabilities would be tasked away from Europe...

Check out our new article in Survival written with Henrik Hiim.
We examine the knock-on risks of a US-China conflict to NATO's space operations and the potential impact on NATO's warfighting capabilities.

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