Sign in

Brandon Valeriano, PhD

@drbvaler.bsky.social
152 followers 63 following 63 posts

Cyber, K-pop, and video games for research Seton Hall, School of Diplomacy Royal Danish Defence College Cyberspace Solarium 2.0 Marine Corps University

PostsRepliesMedia
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The astounding thing about prominent IR voices is how often they are consistently wrong, and never pay the price for their very public failures, instead doubling down each time.
130
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Neat new Generative AI paper by Jensen and his team, looks great "All models exhibit some degree of country-specific biases, often recommending less escalatory and interventionist actions for China and Russia compared to the United States and the United Kingdom." arxiv.org/pdf/2503.06263
arxiv.org
020
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
DoD Minerva grant on space/cyberspace nexus canceled. What is worse is how they did it, for a minute there we thought it might survive but instead they were just going down the list slowly...
020
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Incredible headline but the hubris to say this when EW jamming has forced a shift to fiber which now leads to new shifts (cutting drones, new optical sights, universal fiber platforms) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Drones Now Rule the Battlefield in the Ukraine-Russia War
Drones have changed the war in Ukraine, with soldiers adapting off-the-shelf models and swarming the front lines.
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We officially have a know-nothing team working cyber. There is no offense/defense in cyber and you don't let your guard down while trying to poke the enemy - even Jake Paul knows that...
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Guess I should react but this is obviously grossly horrific. The thing that gets me is the idea we cut off offensive operations, offense/defense language is inadequate in cyber and most troubling is stopping basic monitoring of malware and ransomware. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
nytimes.com
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia
The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As academics have been saying for nearly a decade, cyber is a poor tool for coercion (Borghard and Lonergan 2017, Valeriano et al 2018) and useless to hold territory. Bigger question is why policymakers were convinced by hype beats and snake oil salesmen.
020
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Impressive to lose Canada, France (probably gone before this), and Germany in one month.
25518
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sure looks like my battle buddy and coauthor Ben Jensen
020
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I think we need to go back to calling people imposters because the entire Executive branch thinks they can solve the country's problems by treating it like a startup.
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What game/situation provoked this? Missed Metternich in Civ 7
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
1) Sure, they have better bread and bikes 2) Sec Pete just did, the whole purpose was to counter Russia 3) Kursk? UA protections? Reparations?
120
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Been stuck in #Civ7 and its nice to be reminded that I once wrote a very personal piece about wargaming and Civilization 6. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2....
thestrategybridge.org
#Reviewing Sid Meier’s! Lessons in Game Design: Civilization and Wargames
Constructing open worlds and the freedom to develop innovative strategies that incubate strategic minds or threaten authoritarian societies are the unexplored frontiers. The lessons in game design tha...
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The real problem is that many restrainers will go along with Trump's military cuts because they have always wanted to cut the DoD. But you have to do it in the right way, not through some magic of technology that isn't even winning the current war. Get in the real game
100
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is a horrific, for one it provides no solutions offering instead do things faster. It adds, we can go lighter w drones buying into the hype of revolutionary technologies when on the battlefield they have gone wired within a period of about 3 months. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Reimagining the American War Machine
The biggest challenge for any peacetime military is preparing for the next war.
110
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The world is burning and I need to post more Kpop memes. Two meetings, a class to prep, and a Champions League game to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGX...
youtube.com
Coca Cola 🔋 MOMO
YouTube video by bbakkebb
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I reject the acronym DEI because it removes context and agency from the platform, eliminating the meaning of the program in favor of some anspectic term.
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Academics need to stop applying fancy words to what is outright chaos and destruction. This is not normal, its an outlier, and its malicious. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pres...
lawfaremedia.org
President Trump’s Campaign of ‘Structural Deregulation’
The administration’s aggressive approach aims to compromise the capacity of the federal government to fulfill its core functions.
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
You mean like when Russia loaded bombs on planes bound for the US and no one said anything because it was during the election and transition and now Russia gets to keep Ukrainian territory too? www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...
nbcnews.com
Russia behind plot to plant bombs on cargo planes, Western official says
The case is the latest example of a wider Russian sabotage campaign to disrupt Western support for Ukraine, officials say.
221
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And I am not a fan of the NFL but I sure watched a bunch of games this year because of *all this*
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Good news, the NCD lives! I thought it might be slowly eliminated along with other cuts. Bad news, our new national cyber director appears to have zero cyber security background so its open season for the sham/scams in cyber security policy - per usual. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
Trump to nominate Sean Cairncross as national cyber director
Cairncross is a former top official at the RNC and previously led a federal foreign aid agency during the first Trump administration.
110
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
NBA and Football (soccer), US team is really good
100
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is damning, but common. Orgs often downplay cyber security because it has little impact on their bottom line, but the reality is the cascading consequences for failure end up far downstream which is why the strategy of regulations, secure by design, and strong investment in the D is critical.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I really like this paper and its something critically important, novel tech is often not destabilizing but stabilizing. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability
Novel technologies with military applications are often implicitly viewed as significant threats to strategic stability. Yet, some implementations of emerging technologies may bolster defenses, mit...
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Me and most of the people who do cyber/social media/information operations from the academic perspective.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Institutional?
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Really cool position in Sports Diplomacy, don't think I have ever seen this before jobs.chronicle.com/job/37787608...
jobs.chronicle.com
CLINICAL ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SPORTS MANAGEMENT (Sports Diplomacy) - New York City, New York (US) job with New York University School of Professional Studies | 37787608
NYUSPS seeks a Clinical Assistant/Associate Professor of Sports Management with a preferred focus on sports diplomacy and international relations.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Oh ffs, if you had a plot to destroy America from within, I don't think you can top having the guy who bungled Twitter take over FAA Information Networks... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
nytimes.com
Elon Musk Says DOGE Will Dig Into F.A.A. Technology and Make Safety Upgrades
His announcement comes after an outage last week to the primary system that provides pilots safety alerts in real time.
0103
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Would this be an "autohack"? Seems to happen alot around US elections.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our Hybrid book "Experts careen from event to event, applying no analytical rigor to the core challenge of modern warfare. The lessons of decades of research on war should highlight how dangerous..failed predictions with no analytical rigor are to the community of analysts, but more so, humanity."
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This what happens when you have a failed Vanderbilt Political Science PhD in charge of the DOJ...
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Oh, and HMart is out of eggs.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The things lost early on: 50k for buying a new house Long term elder care support Diversity and ethics protections All grants from the NIH, NSF, and DoD(?) WFH (RTO) Changes to USG disrupting entire USG Cyber Bureau at State, all review boards Likely coordination with Denmark College loan support
100
Reposted by Brandon Valeriano, PhD
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it
241779328
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Wrote a retrospective piece with my students on Drones in the Homefront and over Jersey nationalinterest.org/blog/techlan...
nationalinterest.org
Drones on the Homefront
The reality is drones are here, they are common, and they are now a fact of daily life.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Cyber security is a great field, people just straight up lie on their resumes, LinkedIn and in bios. More people claim to be "plankholders" for USCYBERCOM or the NCD than there were chairs in the building when the orgs opened.
000
Reposted by Brandon Valeriano, PhD
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Call for applications: The H.F. Guggenheim #EmergingScholarAwards recognize and support promising Ph.D. candidates in completing dissertations that examine a salient aspect of physical violence. Apply by Feb. 1, 2025. Apply here: hfg.org/emerging-sch...
hfg.org
HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
086
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
You have heard of Stuxnet? Now put AI in front of that and tremble at the might of the cyber weapon. (*notice how all these warnings come with a sales pitch) www.axios.com/2025/01/07/g...
axios.com
AI-powered cyber warfare could be here as soon as 2027, a NATO-backed startup warns
Two years isn't a lot of time for governments, critical infrastructure and the private sector to prepare.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I have had students leverage AI professionally, and others just cut and paste outputs spending less time on the assingment than it took me to write the prompt. This is how disastrous mistakes are made.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I don't know how many times I have to reiterate that offense/defense framework in cyber is absurd but this add for the Director of Cyber for Habit for Humanity asking for an offensive expert to run the defense pretty much says it all. www.habitat.org/about/career...
habitat.org
Director, Cybersecurity
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A lot "get off my lawn, I was there for Carter" commentary today which is hilarious given that our current students were not even alive for 9/11.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Just in time for worst article of the year. This is not how you use AI or ML, need to establish conditions and theories first, otherwise it spits out junk. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/we-f...
breakingdefense.com
We fed every 2024 Pentagon briefing into ChatGPT. Here’s what it thought.
The US national security establishment is cautiously embracing generative AI, so Breaking Defense decided to do an experiment.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Save me a click please, how are you measuring cultural affinity? Curious because I want to do some quant soft power work.
210
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This is only interesting in it should make the persistent engagement people's heads explode. The US is the most aggressive nation-state in cyberspace, hands down, its also the most effective (see Cyber Strategy, 2018, OUP).
010
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
More like just because you think he was looking at your weird when he was just looking out the window behind you.
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Getting zesty with that Ozempic money...
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Denmark has done incredible work in supporting Ukraine and we thank them with this, now they have to invest money in Greenlandic defense when they need to spend on other things, like troop retention and training.
100
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Iranian drone mothership you say...
000
Brandon Valeriano, PhD @drbvaler.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Its not like Yahoo hasn't had a serious cyber disasters, nope, nothing to see here...🤪
000