Christoph Harig

Can civil-military relations scholarship provide prescriptive normative guidance for military leaders' appropriate behaviour in democratic backsliding? My new article in @journalofgss.bsky.social debates this civil-military conundrum academic.oup.com/jogss/articl... #CivMilSKy

As many other academic journals, we at @sjms.bsky.social are trying to find ways to deal with GenAI in manuscripts We do so by using a narrow definition of co-authorship as a threshold which GenAI tools must not pass The editorial below explains our policy and the reasoning behind it

Wer in Berlin ist und heute Abend noch nichts Besseres vor hat:

As many other academic journals, we at @sjms.bsky.social are trying to find ways to deal with GenAI in manuscripts We do so by using a narrow definition of co-authorship as a threshold which GenAI tools must not pass The editorial below explains our policy and the reasoning behind it

Politicians around the world made sure to congratulate Lula and declare their support before Trump woke up

Lethality!!!

Lula now also to blame for Bolsonaro's corruption @nytpitchbot.bsky.social couldn't make this one up www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

The last time a Bolsonaro didn't accept an election result, the Biden administration strongly discouraged him from a coup attempt Now that another Bolsonaro won't concede defeat, I worry that the Trump administration might encourage him and his supporters to get the election annuled

Will he launch a coup and assassination attempt like his daddy? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

Absurdity on steroids Local CDU youth organisation wants Bundeswehr to be deployed against students' protests

Flávio Bolsonaro runs for president on an anti-crime campaign He is highly corrupt, has ties to criminal groups, and promises amnesty for his father who planned a coup and allegedly even wanted to kill current president Lula. Today, Bolsonaro might win the election www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... 🎁

Nothing says "fighting Nazism" like launching an expansionist war to unite "one people" on the basis of "genetics."

Palmer Luckey's next project.

And if LLMs are superior readers, editors, and writers, why not outsource all of the reading, editing, and writing to them, too?

Strongly agree with this - we are producing academic texts in order to communicate with fellow humans, not in order to enter in a dialogue with machines.

And if LLMs are superior readers, editors, and writers, why not outsource all of the reading, editing, and writing to them, too?

Mark Rutte's entire Trump appeasement strategy falls apart as he'll be personally blamed for his fellow countrymen

Civilians applying for jobs in the Pentagon are also being vetted this way, but worse: asked if Trump won the 2020 election.

True Warrior Ethos: "Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it'

"The idea that tactical or operational victories can be translated into a situation of ‘winning’ without the imposition of a strategic defeat is very problematic." isabelleduyvesteyn.substack.com/p/a-theory-o...

The Art of the Kneel

Older than the articles mentioned in this thread, but still relevant for understanding the prominent role of the military in contemporary Brazilian politics (okay, I am biased because I wrote it) Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Milo Minderbinder bombing his own squadron

Acharam o carro da Lucy Born

Well, they are now

People of the world, look at this flag! "The Future is Here"

Putin is probably intelligent enough to know that such a summit wouldn't bring an end to the war. But it could cause a major transatlantic rupture if Trump walks out with a Russia- and China-sponsored "peace deal" that Europe and Ukraine have to turn down.

'His fears underscore Western militaries' growing reliance on commercial satellite networks, raising questions about who should protect them'

Danish press photographer takes pictures of being hit by policeman before ending up in hospital politiken.dk/danmark/art1...

Apolitical professional doing his job, nothing to see here

When you depend on Milo Minderbinder's Enterprise, Milo Minderbinder is in charge of your foreign policy

Public safety has improved in Caracas, @viaSimonRomero writes, because Venezuela's regime out-Bukele'd Bukele. Instead of massively incarcerating young men, the security forces and death squads just straight-up extrajudicially executed many thousands.

Annihilating the drug trade

'The Trump administration has (...) built a military coalition of 19 regional partners, including the United States, that has vowed to help dismantle cartels. The group’s official slogan is: “We do bad things to bad people"' www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

The Black Sea is actually not a bad place for Russia to test NATO, because due to the Montreux Convention it is difficult for NATO to send a naval force to the area.

First, the US asks Europe to buy more arms Then, the US gets angry that Europeans buy them from non-US companies Now, the US tells Europeans that it will need US-made products for itself

Being the main guarantor of NATO deterrence against Russia while actively supporting Russia

Everything they do, they do for producing content www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

Os peruanos imitando

“Im vergangenen Jahr fanden nach Angaben der Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International mindestens 17 öffentliche Hinrichtungen statt: 6 in Afghanistan und 11 in Iran.”

But...can the army do it at the speed of relevance?

And so it begins: the very first proposal of the new regional parliament in which the AfD is the strongest faction is about an immediate end to sanctions against Russia and the normalisation of relations. (Which, of course, they cannot decide at the regional level.) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...