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@patrickbury.bsky.social
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Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.

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Armed Forces & Society Journal @afssage.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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/...
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Good news.👇 Next, start collecting address, basic medical fitness, skills and motivation data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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.
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What about using the data from realtimebillionaires.de with OS location data to track billionaires on here?
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Tracking real-time billionaires
Track billionaires in real-time, follow their huge fortunes and watch some deep analytics.
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
How does a CIA psychotherapist respond to staff enquiry forms? 'You're insecurely attached.'
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Probably the best John Lennon cover ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvrt...
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Mother - Kubb
YouTube video by otonoami
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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...
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Band of Brothers-Speirs' "Hopeless War" Speech
YouTube video by Christina Lim
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social you might like this 👇
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ladies and gentlemen I give you #Democrauxcy
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
By the time you're sure its fascism its too late for sure
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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...
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Elon Musk accused of giving ‘Nazi salute’ at Trump inauguration celebration
The world’s richest man drew a ton of attention over an ill-advised ‘salute’ he did on stage, with many likening it to a Nazi gesture
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Daniela Richterova @drichterova.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
▶️ '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
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The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? - War on the Rocks
Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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....
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The End of the All-Volunteer Force
Due to wider social, cultural and economic change, British youth are less understanding and supportive of, and less motivated to serve in, the armed forces. Meanwhile, the British all-volunteer for...
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Like if you think a phased but complete smartphone ban is a good idea. Laptops and desktops fine.
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"...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-...
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Making the Most of Ukraine’s Freedom to Strike Russia
ATACMS striking Russia provide an opportunity to inflict significant damage. To take advantage of this, however, the targets must align with a wider plan.
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In the words of the great strategists the Backstreet Boys: 'two can play that game' abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Here we go folks!
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So, here's a paper I was lucky enough to co-author with some great colleagues on info tech and the changing global terrorist landscape. And its free to read folks! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
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Bytes not waves: information communication technologies, global jihadism and counterterrorism
Abstract. Rapoport's conceptualization of the last, religious wave of four global waves remains highly influential. But it, and other typologies, have plac
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Aha- this prob part explains why ATACMS now . North Korea gave Russia 20 MLRS guided systems to use in Kursk - so here you go Volodymyr www.ft.com/content/83ad...
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North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems
Ukrainian intelligence says weapons being sent to Russia’s Kursk region to attack Kyiv’s forces
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Is there a situation where a major war in 2026-27 could be used to extend the US President's tenure?
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is a really good discussion about US Army recruitment. Ultimately, the youth tide is moving away from military insts, and we need much bigger solutions than well-meaning institutional tweaks akin to rearranging decks on the Titanic www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
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Selling America: The Army’s fight for recruits - The Washington Post
Across the United States, the Army is struggling to recruit young people as fewer can – and want – to join the military. Today, how recruiters in New Jersey are tackling a recruitment slump.
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Some really good ideas in here folks
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patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Insightful stuff on Russia's militayr economy and the risks of it. Unfortunately it looks more like 'a use it or lose it scenario' for them
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