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Senior Advisor for Geopolitics & Technology at Arcano Partners | Visiting Professor IE University | Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre | Member IISS | Former Officer USMC
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · Feb 11
A prediction: the most strategic question in the world is, "And then what?" MAGA-types are going to learn an obscure International Relations concept called "Balance of Power." Up until now, scores of nations did not bother, as the US was viewed as basically benign. Not anymore!
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 11h
How Russia is Helping China Prepare to Seize Taiwan www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
How Russia is Helping China Prepare to Seize Taiwan
Russia has agreed to equip and train the PLA to air-drop armoured vehicles and special reconnaissance capabilities.
www.rusi.org
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 17h
Intelligence Book of the Day: Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes www.amazon.com/Monopoly-Top...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 1d
Intelligence Book of the Day: The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb www.amazon.com/Devil-Reache...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 2d
The birth of Eastern Europe: The pioneering work of a 16th-century Polish geographer radically transformed Renaissance understandings of Europe's eastern frontiers, paving the way for Russia's later inclusion in the congress of European states. engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-b...
The birth of Eastern Europe
The pioneering work of a 16th-century Polish geographer radically transformed Renaissance understandings of Europe's eastern frontiers, paving the way for Russia's later inclusion in the congress of…
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 2d
Intelligence Book of the Day: The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces www.amazon.com/Fort-Bragg-C...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 2d
Russian espionage in academia needs to be properly studied www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Russian espionage in academia needs to be properly studied
Russian espionage in universities has received little attention in higher education communities, leaving disengaged scholars and disinterested student...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 3d
Podcast: The Digital Case Officer: Reimagining Espionage with AI scsp222.substack.com/p/the-digita...
The Digital Case Officer: Reimagining Espionage with AI
Brand new report and podcast episode inside!
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 3d
Podcast - Putin: Blunderer-in-Chief? A realistic look at Mr. Jujitsu's decision-making record pca.st/episode/7fdf...
In Moscow's Shadows 218: Putin, the Blunderer-in-Chief?
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 3d
Geopolitical Weekend Reading: Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire www.amazon.com/Assyria-Rise...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 3d
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 3d
Russian Illegals and Changing Technological Landscape davidtownsend.substack.com/p/russian-il...
Russian Illegals and Changing Technological Landscape
I'll be in Germany Sept 26-28 2025 Presenting at the Power & Peril: Potentials and Limits of Intelligence Conference hosted by the International Intelligence History Association.
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 4d
As usual, Luttwak is devastating: Will Putin call NATO's bluff? European militaries are a paper tiger #NATO unherd.com/2025/09/will...
Will Putin call Nato’s bluff?
Join the discussion
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 4d
Revealed: How Russia’s GRU Plotted Europe’s Parcel Explosions vsquare.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Russia’s GRU Plotted Europe’s Parcel Explosions - VSquare.org
These parcel explosions were stagemanaged by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, via the social media platform Telegram.
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 4d
Nvidia and a Huawei subsidiary shared a building - and now it's being probed for Chinese espionage www.techradar.com/pro/security...
Nvidia and Futurewei espionage investigation launched by US lawmakers over shared building
Futurewei held the same space as Nvidia for years
www.techradar.com
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 4d
Geopolitical Weekend Reading: Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security www.amazon.com/Total-Defens...
Amazon.com: Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security: 9780674737389: Preston, Andrew: Books
Amazon.com: Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security: 9780674737389: Preston, Andrew: Books
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 4d
Generative AI as a Cybercrime Assistant: Detecting and countering misuse of AI #Cybersecurity #AI www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025
Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses
www.anthropic.com
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 5d
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies #SpaceX www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 5d
Intelligence Book of the Day: Kill–Do Not Release: Censored Marine Corps Stories from World War II www.amazon.com/Kill-Do-Not-...
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 5d
Surpriiiiise!

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US Tomahawk missile shipments to Ukraine unlikely, sources say
The Trump Administration's desire to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine may not be viable because current inventories are committed to the U.S. Navy and other uses, a U.S. official and three sources said.
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 5d
WORLD LEADERS; SPOKESPEOPLE, AND COMMENTATORS: You are boring me! The metaphor that a particular action "Crosses a red line" in relations between states has become utterly meaningless. Please find another image, phrase or metaphor to express dismay, distress or annoyance! #RedLine
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 6d
Intelligence Book of the Day: Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership www.amazon.com/Iraqi-Perspe...
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 6d
"Hidden in this picture" - Steganography is the “ancient and fine art of smuggling secret messages on apparently innocent carriers”; and especially the hiding of messages in pictures, a technique which has become much easier. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2018/09/24/r...
The Last Word On Nothing | Redux: Hidden in this picture
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 6d
The War on Open-Source Intelligence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The War on Open-Source Intelligence
Published in The Washington Quarterly (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2025)
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Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social · 7d
The Trust Lives! Moscow Uses Early Soviet Cheka Operations as Model Today

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The Trust Lives! Moscow Uses Early Soviet Cheka Operations as Model
Executive Summary: The Trust, the Soviet secret police’s first great intelligence operation in the 1920s, is making a comeback under Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Moscow setting up Federal Se...
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