Mark Stout
@markstout.bsky.social
Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
Interesting. What are/were you researching?
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Interesting. What are/were you researching?
That is outstanding.
January 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
That is outstanding.
Yeah, there are most definitely counting problems here. And reports can be aggregated or disaggregated, too.
January 17, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Yeah, there are most definitely counting problems here. And reports can be aggregated or disaggregated, too.
I do wonder if France is able to have any actually accurate sense of the proportion of Ukraine's intelligence that it provides. I can readily imagine not.
January 17, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I do wonder if France is able to have any actually accurate sense of the proportion of Ukraine's intelligence that it provides. I can readily imagine not.
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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
He's not aware of the UN Charter, I take it.
January 17, 2026 at 4:08 AM
He's not aware of the UN Charter, I take it.
Yeah, typo that I just saw. #theresalwayssomething
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Yeah, typo that I just saw. #theresalwayssomething
Helsingfors, rather. Argh!
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Helsingfors, rather. Argh!
US records of this period used Helsingborg, too.
January 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
US records of this period used Helsingborg, too.
On the extremely off chance that anyone in Minnesota needs an intelligence historian, DM me. I particularly focus on 20th century US intel. My dissertation was on the far-flung US intel in WWI. But I can do other periods of US intel history and in a pinch could do UK or Soviet, too.
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 AM
On the extremely off chance that anyone in Minnesota needs an intelligence historian, DM me. I particularly focus on 20th century US intel. My dissertation was on the far-flung US intel in WWI. But I can do other periods of US intel history and in a pinch could do UK or Soviet, too.
A bit late, but here you go.
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
A bit late, but here you go.
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