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Joshua C Huminski

@joshuachuminski.bsky.social
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SVP of natsec & intel @ CSPC, policy for Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI, ret.), book reviewer for the Diplomatic Courier, GMU NSI Senior Fellow & host of ‘Coffee & Conflict’.

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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The NATO Hague Summit was a success against admittedly low expectations, but significant, substantive work remains, not the least of which is operationalising the spending commitment and building a post-industrial defence industrial base. @breakingdefense.com breakingdefense.com/2025/07/post...
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Post success at The Hague summit, the real NATO work remains - Breaking Defense
Joshua Huminski in this op-ed explores next steps now that NATO allies have signed an agreement to spend 5 percent GDP on defense.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Another great CSPC book event with Dr Andrew Monaghan to discuss ‘Blitzkrieg & the Russian Art of War’ (@manchesterup.bsky.social). A fascinating exploration of the drivers & tensions w/in Moscow’s war & statecraft, Monaghan’s book offers critical & timely nuance about the Kremlin’s strategic craft.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Belatedly posting my Fourth of July reading: the @financialtimes.com Weekend and Cathy Scott-Clark’s ‘Russia’s Man of War’ (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) a riveting biography of Viktor Bout.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Looking forward to joining Sirius XM’s POTUS tomorrow morning at 0830 to discuss NATO and more.
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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Yours truly getting excited about Silverstone this weekend with the excellent Jamie Owen CGTN Europe Global Business Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6p2...
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Formula 1 growth: "Worth something like £12 billion to the UK economy"
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Heads up to our NATO allies, this is the mood the President is bringing with him to The Hague.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sunday’s read: “Death is Our Business” (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) by @johnlechner.bsky.social about Moscow’s PMCs, Wagner, and the confluence of the Kremlin’s geostrategic interests & Russian private gain abroad.
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ICDS Tallinn @icds-tallinn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
📖 Reading recommendation: "Now is the time for building European land power to deny Russian aggression and to show the US that sharing its strategic enablers and ISR remains worthwhile," writes Henrik Larsen in a new ICDS analysis. #NATOsummit #WeAreNATO
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Toward a Europeanised NATO - ICDS
Europeanisation is necessary to sustain NATO’s deterrence of Russia at a time when US leadership is agnostic at best and failing at worst. The task is neither impossible, nor quick, nor easy. European...
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ICDS Tallinn @icds-tallinn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Read our series of briefs that examines some of the key issues of the Hague Summit. 📝 Authors: @joshuachuminski.bsky.social, Felix Gasper, @kzysk.bsky.social, Nele Loorents, @marpaire.bsky.social and Tony Lawrence. #NATOsummit #WeAreNATO
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The Hague Summit Series - ICDS
When NATO heads of state and government meet in The Hague on 24 and 25 June, there will be much to talk about. Building consensus around NATO’s new capability targets has sometimes been difficult, eve...
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
‘The key to the G7’s continued geopolitical relevance lies in near-term expectation management, and a longer-term shift towards results rather than process,’ writes @joshuachuminski.bsky.social, @cspc-dc.bsky.social #BritainsWorld #BigAsk #G7
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How can the G7 ensure it remains geopolitically relevant?
The Big Ask | No. 25.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
How can the #G7 ensure it remains geopolitically relevant? We asked a group of experts in today's #BigAsk ✍️ Edward Howell, @joshuachuminski.bsky.social, @lanoszka.bsky.social, Timothy Less #BritainsWorld
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How can the G7 ensure it remains geopolitically relevant?
The Big Ask | No. 25.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
⚓‘HM Gov should use the #SDR as a guide, but should also go further…by using the proposed spending increases to adopt a strategic and operational focus which is based on a #NATOFirst maritime strategy,’ writes @joshuachuminski.bsky.social, @cspc-dc.bsky.social #Broadside
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Towards a ‘NATO First’, First-in-NATO maritime strategy
His Majesty’s (HM) Government faces a unique moment in Euro-Atlantic defence and security: not only has conventional warfare returned to the continent since 2022, but the United States (US), the histo...
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ICDS Tallinn @icds-tallinn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"The return on investment, for Trump, is not about shared values or the rules-based international order. Those are intangible concepts that are fundamentally immeasurable, and not evident on a balance sheet," writes @joshuachuminski.bsky.social.
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Hague Summit Series: Trump and the Rebalancing of NATO - ICDS
The perception that the US has turned its back on or is in the process of separating from Europe and continental defence and security is certainly understandable. Naturally, there is a focus on the no...
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Strategic Defence Review: The view from Washington 👇 🇺🇸 ‘The statements and priorities of the Review will find a receptive audience in the White House and the Pentagon,’ writes @joshuachuminski.bsky.social, @cspc-dc.bsky.social #SDR #Memorandum #BritainsWorld
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The Strategic Defence Review: The view from Washington
The Memorandum | No. 20.2025
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Starting the week off with the @nytimes.com crossword and cracking open @candacerondeaux.bsky.social’s book ‘Putin’s Sledgehammer’ (Public Affairs) on Wagner, Russia, & PMCs. I’ve been looking forward to reading this for a while and picked it up this weekend. Looks like a cracking read.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Impressive though Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web is (and it most certainly is), let’s dial back the hyperbole about ‘Russia’s Pearl Habor’ or how the ‘rules of war have changed’. Incoherent, ahistorical, and analytically vapid shrieking isn’t particularly useful.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The UK government's upcoming Strategic Defence Review promises a fresh approach to identifying threats and responses. But will this new methodology deliver better outcomes than other recent reviews?
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The New Approach to the UK Strategic Defence Review: Tests for Success
The Strategic Defence Review now underway has been described as a ‘root and branch review’ of the whole UK defence enterprise, pointing the way to ‘a new era for defence’. Can the different approach b...
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you ever doubted how out of date the Dulles Airport people movers are, the one I’m presently on says it is 1 January, 1990 at 1:55 AM…
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It is amusing watching a grown man fail at basic shapes on an airplane. I’m sorry sir, your obscenely large rolling luggage will not fit in that small space, no matter how hard you try and slam the overhead bin…
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The emergence of new, novel defence tech companies is deeply exciting, especially if they manage to truly upset the defence industrial base, but I do wonder how much is ‘real’ & how much is Silicon Valley/VC hype/vapourware, fodder for the inevitable Theranos-style documentary…
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Spending my final Monday in London (for this trip, of course) reading Jonathan Dimbleby’s ‘Barbarossa’ with an accompanying, if slightly on the nose, Moscow Mule.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Microsoft Copilot is just a more annoying and insidious version of Clippy.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
British television knows me so well. A brilliant curry on Saturday night followed by ‘The Hunt for Red October’.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Assuming the worst case scenario is vital to planning for defence & deterrence, but interrogating underlying strategic assumptions & adversary intentions is critical, too; 2027 seems a bit of a stretch... I'll need to read the full report. www.thetimes.com/article/0493...
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Will Russia attack Nato? Experts warn of invasion as early as 2027
A think tank said Russia would be able to rebuild its forces after a ceasefire in Ukraine and warned of the cost of US withdrawal from the western alliance
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Cancel the rest of my morning meetings: this London cafe has ‘The Lord of the Rings’ on.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I think this is called the ‘Top Gun’ rule.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We all live in a Trident D-5 armed submarine…
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Apparently the @thetimes.com is free this weekend. Do yourself a favour and have a read of their super reporting and writing across all sections.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tom Clancy’s “Hunt for Red October” started me on my national security academic/career journey, and I became (and remain) utterly fascinated by the Akula/TYPHOON.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Always great to join Michael Farr on the always insightful FarrCast (although it is a challenge to follow Dan Mahaffee in the lineup). This week we talked Ukraine, Russia, the proposed cease-fire, and the possible next steps from President Truml & President Putin. open.spotify.com/episode/6QfI...
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When Posture Turns to Policy
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Is it possible to split 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳? We asked 7 experts in today's #BigAsk ✍️ Dr Olivia Cheung, @isabelh.bsky.social, @natashakuhrt.bsky.social, Dr Timothy Less, @george17.bsky.social, Danielle Reeder, Leon Sinfield #BritainsWorld
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Is it possible to split Russia and China?
The Big Ask | No. 11.2025
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Charles Hecker @charleshecker.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Huge thanks to @joshuachuminski.bsky.social and the CSPC for being such gracious hosts today and providing such a fantastic platform to discuss my book. Dramatic change is afoot around the world; being in DC at a time like this is… electrifying (in a very complex way).
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Author @charleshecker.bsky.social joined me at CSPC today to discuss his fascinating & timely new book “Zero Sum” (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) about the role of international business in Russia’s economy & what the future could hold for the return of Western companies to the country.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Starting the week off with a bang, re-visiting “The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy” (Palgrave) by my KCL War Studies MA prof. @ldfreedman.bsky.social & Jeffrey Michaels, and a very strong much-needed Americano.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Phew. What a week. Taking a bit of a nonfiction breather (well, aside from the @financialtimes.com Weekend) and indulging in a spot of fiction with Jonathan Coe’s “The Proof of My Innocence” @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social) picked up in Edinburgh at Topping & Company on my last trip.
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Fracture in transatlantic relations: What next for Euro-Atlantic security? 🌍 European leaders gather for emergency summit on #Ukraine 🤝 Starmer hosts US Special Envoy to UK 🚨 Lammy and Healey warn against a ‘bad peace deal with Russia’ Read this week’s #Cable #BritainsWorld
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Fracture in transatlantic relations: What next for Euro-Atlantic security?
The Cable | No. 07.2025
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I'm pleased to share my contribution to the Baltic Defence College’s 2025 Conference on Russia: "Constraints & Frictions on Rapprochement between the United States & Russia". Recent events notwithstanding, there remain systemic obstacles to the president's ambitions. media.voog.com/0000/0051/27...
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Europe is now panicking because it has grown accustomed to the US security comfort blanket, underinvested in defence for years, not heeded what Trump has been saying, nor prepared adequately for his second presidency," writes John Foreman. www.spectator.co.uk/article/euro...
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Europe cannot be surprised by Trump’s approach to Ukraine
The mood among European security panjandrums at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference was fraught and panicked.
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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Must read ahead of Macron’s emergency Paris meeting today on security in Ukraine and Europe, by my colleague @shashj.bsky.social : what cards does Europe hold and what does the US really want Donald Trump’s assault on Europe www.economist.com/internationa... @economist.com
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Donald Trump’s assault on Europe
His invitation to Vladimir Putin to make a deal over Ukraine has thrown the transatlantic alliance into turmoil
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ww3 memes for NATO teens @natowave.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“This is only the start of a process where the end is by no means guaranteed, and in which the Ukrainians will have much more of a say than Trump seems to believe”. A useful reminder from @markgaleotti.bsky.social in this weekend’s @thetimes.com (£). www.thetimes.com/article/7eb2...
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Putin’s no longer a pariah — and his ambitions lie beyond Ukraine
Whether or not peace can be achieved, this is the end of efforts to isolate the Russian president, with Trump eager for him to return to the top table
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The @financialtimes.com may need to issue a slight correction. I’m not 100% sure, but I’m fairly confident that isn’t @keirgiles.bsky.social… I jest, but do pick up this weekend’s paper for Giles’ Life & Arts essay, & read his book “Who Will Defend Europe” (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social).
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In modern dating and the pursuit of romance with its apps, swiping, ghosting, and the like, success is decidedly less assured. For this Valentine’s Day, I prefer something much more mutually assured. Reading Herman Kahn’s “On Thermonuclear War” (Routledge).
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Seems like a geo-strategic geometric demotion from the 'axis of evil': “China, Russia and North Korea have formed a triangle of troublemakers,” according to Admiral Samuel Paparo. Great reporting from Demetri Sevastopulo in the @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/3a31...
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China’s war games near Taiwan could be used to conceal attack, US says
Pentagon’s Indo-Pacific chief says American military must step up preparations for conflict in region
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 12/02/2025
America cannot be relied upon to guarantee the security of Europe from Russia because it has to focus on its own borders and the threat of China, President Trump’s defence secretary told Nato leaders
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Pete Hegseth: US cannot guarantee security of Europe
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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Some thoughts on the possible Putin-Trump meeting. This is unquestionably something Putin would relish. He would want to time it, presumably, to coincide with Victory Day anniversary (early May), leaving time to reach an agreement with the US. Cannot have a summit without it.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Estonia’s foreign intelligence service released its annual assessment of international security. raport.valisluureamet.ee/2025/en/
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International Security and Estonia 2025 – Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service has published a report covering the security situation in the Baltic Sea region.
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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Belatedly reading @georgewparker.bsky.social’s superb @financialtimes.com profile of Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK’s new ambassador to the U.S., whose appointment received somewhat less notice amidst the new administration’s ’flooding the zone’.
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