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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our team at Centre for Joint Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College is looking for new Assistant/Associate Professors candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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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
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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 www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/r...
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The Royal Danish Defence College invites applications for Associate Professor in Military Operations or Assistant Professor | Job ad | Jobindex
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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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
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This counts as being forewarned (althought that’s not the same thing as being forearmed)
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Poor old 'apolitical' military leaders, being driven to execute those illegal orders like sheep to the slaughter
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
'the question of what those in uniform will do in pivotal moments for democracy is, alas, becoming more relevant by the day' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"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"
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Pivot to the Western Hemisphere
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Søren Sjøgren @sorensjogren.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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....
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Andrew Ivey @drprofivey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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
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The Responsibility to Be Reasonable: Conceptualizing Executive Shirking in Civil–Military Relations | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Responsibility to Be Reasonable: Conceptualizing Executive Shirking in Civil–Military Relations
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The indirect approach to the indirect approach?
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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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
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Søren Sjøgren @sorensjogren.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“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)
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And the US military is now in 'repeatedly obeying illegal orders' territory
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“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.”
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Craig Whiteside @craigwhiteside.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Got our first book review for Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects in @terpolv.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects
Published in Terrorism and Political Violence (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows #CivMilSky newrepublic.com/article/1987...
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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.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 16/07/2025
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.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 23/06/2025
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.
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Why spend more on defense in Western Europe?
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CivMilSky
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.
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Recommend everyone read this article by Christoph and Chiara
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
And yet, would anyone think US Congress would then impeach Trump?
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Ian Bowers @ianbowers.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"When it is clear that a civilian government (..) is weaponizing the military to protect its political interests, to attack its political opponents, or to undermine civil society, political neutrality demands that military officers not passively obey." #CivMilSky www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-po...
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A Politically Neutral Military Is Not Always Obedient
Military political neutrality in a democratic society is, and always has been, more than a promise of obedience.
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This concerted campaign of US government officials in support of an extremist party is an open attack against Germany's democracy - all while these very same government officials are actively trying to destroy democracy in the US, too
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Read this post about the US DOD trying to censor a peer reviewed article right before publication:
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
What we're witnessing is much more dramatic than the gradual nature of 'democratic backsliding' If we are using the slowly boiling a frog metaphor for 'democratic backsliding', what we're actually seeing is someone forcefully drowning a frog in a baththub of fully boiling water
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Caine said he would be candid in his advice to Trump and vowed to be apolitical." You can't be APOLITICAL!!! #CivMilSky
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"if Trump directs the U.S. military to engage in such an operation, he could well precipitate the greatest civil-military crisis in American history since the Civil War." #CivMilSky
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Social scientist: the US military is crisis - wake up! The cognitive dissonance of endless rejections from mainstream news and social science outlets STILL pathologically averse to talking about the military + endless bad news about military affirms (Belvoir closing)… cupblog.org/2025/04/04/p...
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Preventing the Military’s Slide from Critical Thinking to Anticipatory Compliance Thomas Crosbie - Columbia University Press Blog
Thomas Crosbie critiques the Department of Defense's shift from critical thinking to anticipatory compliance under Trump.
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump’s degrader strategy is very effective. Responding to it requires more than observing the disruption, since the point of the disruption is to be observed. Instead of: “Trump did X”, try: “we all have to do Y now because some jackass did X”
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fde... Check out this timely collection
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NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges
Explore the article collection: NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges. Published in Defence Studies.
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The corruption of the American military is happening so much faster than I thought possible. Weren’t there responsible leaders in uniform recently?
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Ian Bowers @ianbowers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This would seem to be a sub-optimal result for long-term US strategic goals towards China (assuming long-term thinking is still a consideration in Washington). 🤦‍♂️ China, Japan, South Korea to meet as Trump tariffs take shape www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
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China, Japan, South Korea to meet as Trump tariffs take shape
South Korea’s Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun will host the meeting with Japan’s Yoji Muto and China’s Wang Wentao.
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ford Maddox Ford fans should check out Page 99 of my book: page99test.blogspot.com/2025/03/thom...
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Thomas Crosbie's "The Political Army"
Thomas Crosbie is associate professor of military operations at the Royal Danish Defence College. He is the editor of Berghahn Books’ Mili...
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Julius Caesar finding out that Brutus added him to the 'Ides of March' group chat
Statue of Julius Caesar seeming to hold something in his hand
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Thinking of Huntington's fashy West Point fantasies from the last pages of Soldier and the State today #CivMilSky
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 17/03/2025
If you want to watch the whole video, it is from my conversation at @siliconcurtain.bsky.social.
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
#CivMilSky
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tomcrosbie.bsky.social @tomcrosbie.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Following this trend, European Professional Military Education institutions should start actively recruiting people eager to leave the US. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
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Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The states most likely to be attacked by Russia all spend more than the agreed threshold on defence already - but no one believes in the US commitment to Art. V any longer anyway
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#CivMilSky
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our dear Royal Danish Defence College colleagues at the Department for Leadership and Organization are looking for an Assistant Professor in Innovation and Management candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Assistant Professorship in Innovation and Management, Department for Leadership and Organization, The Royal Danish Defence College
The Royal Danish Defence College (RDDC) invites applications for an assistant professorship in Innovation and Management at the Department of Leadership and Org
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
'Senators should refuse to confirm any new Defense Department nominations, including that of retired Lt. General Dan Caine as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," the former defense secretaries wrote.' www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv... #CivMilSky
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Five former US defense secretaries assail Trump's military firings as reckless
Five former U.S. defense secretaries on Thursday condemned President Donald Trump's "reckless" firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers and called on Congress to halt any confirmation of their successors.
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