Order in Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, (@COIN_Doctrines), Ceasefires, NE India. Co-Ed @JournalofCW. @BDPeaceAndDev. Guitars. LUFC. @alexwaterman.bsky.social
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22 Dec 2025
Early Christmas present! Very excited to have signed a contract with Oxford University Press to publish "Managing Insurgency: Counterinsurgency and Order Negotiation in Northeast India."
Watch this space in 2026!
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Just in case you missed it - this is the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff failing to confirm that the British Army could deploy 1000 troops to the continent of Europe.
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"Oh shit, we're f****d."
If you can pull yourself away from bloody Iran & read just one article on Ukraine, please let it be this one, by the consistently right @edwardlucas:
โWe are on a collision course with a fast rearming Russiaโ
General Sir Roland Walker, head of ๐ฌ๐ง army.
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17 Dec 2025
Straight from Moscow - literally - not even using cover anymore. Britain needs to wake up to what Reform is all about.
17 Dec 2025
British people know who the real enemies are. Wishing them success in bringing back the British way of life. ๐ท๐บ๐ค๐ฌ๐ง
Must-watch video ๐
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16 Dec 2025
Obviously we laugh at and mock these people, but in all seriousness I do find it very concerning how through nothing more than social media conspiracy slop, Russia has been able to turn a small but significant portion of British society into literal fifth columnists.
16 Dec 2025
I'm British and I'd much prefer Putin invaded Britain if it meant he disposed of the criminal establishment that betrayed us and killed our country with immigration.
Bring it on Putin, save us from the Globalists
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20 Nov 2025
Me & @_AlexWaterman write @SAVoices .Major Takeaways:
โ Security must come before development in Manipur.
โ Violence keeps stalling growth & connectivity projects.
โ Bodoland shows unified security > fragmented ceasefires.
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18 Nov 2025
Development cannot precede security in India's Northeast, argue @_AlexWaterman and @gaurav15_isk in their engaging analysis of Modi's Ashtalakshmi vision amid enduring challenges in Manipur. southasianvoices.org/pol-m-oโฆ
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18 Nov 2025
Development cannot precede security in India's Northeast, argue @_AlexWaterman and @gaurav15_isk in their engaging analysis of Modi's Ashtalakshmi vision amid enduring challenges in Manipur. southasianvoices.org/pol-m-oโฆ
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21 Oct 2025
Reports of another series of drone strikes in the NE India borderlands, this time against NSCN-K/YA following a recent clash in Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. Cross-border drone strikes becoming a part of the logic of state-rebel conflict in the region deccanchronicle.com/news/curโฆ
13 Jul 2025
Reports of large-scale drone strikes against northeast Indian insurgent camps in Myanmar. As with most other conflict zones, the Northeast/Sagaing border area has gradually seen the arrival of drone warfare over the last couple of years pratidintime.com/latest-assaโฆ
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My India Review article with Ben Holt analysing variation in the character of state-rebel conflict across Northeast India's "Highland," "Heartland" and "Hinterland" conflicts is the journalโs 3rd most-read article in the last year!
Read it OA here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.โฆ
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13 Jul 2025
Reports of large-scale drone strikes against northeast Indian insurgent camps in Myanmar. As with most other conflict zones, the Northeast/Sagaing border area has gradually seen the arrival of drone warfare over the last couple of years pratidintime.com/latest-assaโฆ
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27 Jun 2025
So excited to incorporate AI into the classroom and liberate my students from boring tasks like reading and thinking
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27 May 2025
Pleased to see the second article from our @HenkelStiftung funded research project on counterinsurgency doctrine published online, plenty more to come. Iโll let @_AlexWaterman explain this one in his detailed thread!
27 May 2025
In this open-access article with @PolViolence in Journal of Strategic Studies, we theorise how specific elements of knowledge - in this case knowledge of insurgencies - are integrated, negotiated and codified into doctrine doi.org/10.1080/01402390.202โฆ
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27 May 2025
Looks like a belter - and itโs open access!
27 May 2025
In this open-access article with @PolViolence in Journal of Strategic Studies, we theorise how specific elements of knowledge - in this case knowledge of insurgencies - are integrated, negotiated and codified into doctrine doi.org/10.1080/01402390.202โฆ
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In this open-access article with @PolViolence in Journal of Strategic Studies, we theorise how specific elements of knowledge - in this case knowledge of insurgencies - are integrated, negotiated and codified into doctrine doi.org/10.1080/01402390.202โฆ
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27 May 2025
Many thanks to @HenkelStiftung for supporting this project to our interlocutors and participants who were so generous in their time. Thanks also to members of the @DefenceResNet COIN Forum editors @jmaiolo team and reviewers for such a constructive and supportive process!
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27 May 2025
May be of interest @WarInstitute, @IrregWarfare, @TraversMcLeod, @DrJohnNagl, @OfficialCLAWSIN @DefenceResNet
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