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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · Jul 14

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...

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 · Jul 10

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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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · Jul 7

We Need To Talk About Rutte

Maybe it's naive of me to think that politicians can and should be honest, but Mark Rutte's escalating rhetoric about the likelihood, even imminence of Russian invasion spurred me into a rant in response:

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We Need To Talk About Rutte

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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · Jul 7

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 · Jul 6

Looking forward to joining Sirius XM’s POTUS tomorrow morning at 0830 to discuss NATO and more.

a man in a suit and tie walks down a street with a netflix logo in the background

ALT: a man in a suit and tie walks down a street with a netflix logo in the background

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · Jul 4

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...

Formula 1 growth: "Worth something like £12 billion to the UK economy"

YouTube video by CGTN Europe

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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · Jun 24

Heads up to our NATO allies, this is the mood the President is bringing with him to The Hague.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨BREAKING: Trump just totally lost it over Israel/Iran.

Wow.

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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · Jun 22

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 · Jun 21

📖 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

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 · Jun 21

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

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 · Jun 20

‘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

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 · Jun 20

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

How can the G7 ensure it remains geopolitically relevant?

The Big Ask | No. 25.2025

www.britainsworld.org.uk

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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · Jun 17

Perhaps this is only referencing the kit in question ‘we’ being the American defence industrial base?

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Jun 17

I wrote on the appointment of a new MI6 chief, Blaise Metreweli, who joined the service in 1999 as a case officer. Not just the first woman. She's the first chief to have joined well after the end of the cold war. And well regarded in the tech community. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

MI6’s new “C” used to be “Q”. And she’s good with the gadgets

Blaise Metreweli is the first female head of Britain’s spy service, too

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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · Jun 16

⚓‘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

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 · Jun 10

"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.

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 · Jun 10

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

The Strategic Defence Review: The view from Washington

The Memorandum | No. 20.2025

www.britainsworld.org.uk

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Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · Jun 9

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 · Jun 2

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 · May 30

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?

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 · May 21

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 · May 21

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…

Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · May 19

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…

Joshua C Huminski @joshuachuminski.bsky.social · May 19

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 · May 19

Microsoft Copilot is just a more annoying and insidious version of Clippy.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · May 19

Once more I ask, if LLMs are so good, why do people have to be bribed or cajoled into using them? www.ft.com/content/f8ca...

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