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Professor of Military Strategy and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition. Born 🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 9y🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

Very happy to see our article ""Europe needs also minds, not just guns" out, which I have written with @aagilli.bsky.social, Antonio Missiroli & Niccolò Petrelli.

www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...

Europe needs also minds - not just guns | ISPI

Europe is rapidly rearming but risks wasting resources without a robust strategic thinking ecosystem, requiring investments

www.ispionline.it

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Geopolitics and Security Studies Center @gssc-lt.bsky.social · 4d

@hoanssolo.bsky.social, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the @cnas.bsky.social joins the Vilnius Foreign and Security Policy Conference on November 21 to discuss modern warfare, defense innovation, and the future of strategic security.

Learn more: conference.gssc.lt
Photo credits: CNAS

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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · 3d

"Recent data from Advocates for Children of New York shows that 154,000 students in the city’s public school system were homeless — about one in eight pupils"
www.ft.com/content/46c1...

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 11d

Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech

Satellite imagery of geolocated site of killings with marked screengrabs from footage depicted the killing and the surrounding area. The trench and berm constructed in August by the RSF is labelled. As is a large group of burned vehicles and where the corpses are visible in satellite imagery. Location of killing: 13.71387, 25.27922. Image credit: Vantor

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Liviu Horovitz @liviuhorovitz.bsky.social · 12d

US, Russia’s tests & subs, Euro deterrent, conventional forces, US space force & House of Dynamite in this week’s STAND newsletter, a project by @swp-intsecurity.bsky.social on recent news & analyses to better #underSTAND #nuclear #space #deterrence & #threats 1/10

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 19d

Volevo scrivere un articolo su questo 😰

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Justin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social · 20d

President Zelenskyy in Sweden today: Ukraine plans to buy 100-150 JAS-39 Gripen E fighters. Certainly a positive sign for the post-war prospects of the Ukrainian Air Force. Great EW suite, modern AESA radar, Meteor missile compatible.

But, it doesn't help win the current war.

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 20d

Very interesting article discussing what might lurk behind the Nexperia controversy.

bits-chips.com/article/lets...

Let’s not forget Itec in the Nexperia affair - Bits&Chips

The storm surrounding Nexperia has mostly been told as a story about chips and geopolitics. But in the shadow of that debate sits a smaller, quieter player: its subsidiary Itec. At this firm resides m...

bits-chips.com

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 25d

"A recent report by the House Select Committee on the CCP issued a startling warning:
U.S. Department of Defense funding has routinely sponsored research conducted by institutions with deep links to China’s defense industrial base. "
@thediplomat.com
thediplomat.com/2025/10/why-...

Why Is the US Defense Department Funding China’s Military Research?

It’s time for the U.S. government to start consolidating its blacklists.

thediplomat.com

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Liviu Horovitz @liviuhorovitz.bsky.social · 26d

New START, US help to Ukraine, Steadfast Noon, Euro deterrence, Chinese & DPRK’s capabilities, SATCOM & the military use of space in this week’s STAND newsletter, a project by @swp-intsecurity.bsky.social, on recent news & analyses to better #underSTAND #nuclear #space #deterrence & #threats 1/10

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Juliana Suess @julianasuess.bsky.social · 27d

Ich hatte vor kurzem die Chance mit Marlen Oehler für den Podcast @nzz.ch Geopolitik zu sprechen:

"Krieg der Satelliten? Wie die Machtspiele auf Erden den Weltraum erfassen"

www.nzz.ch/podcast/krie...

Krieg der Satelliten: Die Militarisierung des Weltraums - NZZ Geopolitik

Moderne Kriege sind ohne Satelliten nicht mehr denkbar. Nicht nur zivile Infrastruktur im Weltraum wird für kriegerische Auseinandersetzung auf der Erde genutzt, auch die Bewaffnung des Alls erreicht ...

www.nzz.ch

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 28d

Reminder for students from Sweden: at the Hertie School, we have 3 full scholarship (tuition + stipend) for our MA in international affairs with specialization in international security

www.hertie-school.org/en/study/fun...

Ax:son Johnson Scholarship

This scholarship is for applicants from Sweden with a demonstrated interest in international security and German-Swedish relations.

www.hertie-school.org

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 28d

The EU considering China's "market for technology" clause.

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 28d

Bloomberg: EU considering forcing Chinese firms to hand over tech to European companies if they want to operate locally. as part of a legislative proposal called the Industrial Accelerator Act - expected in November

EU Considers Forced Tech Transfers for New Chinese Investments

The European Union is considering forcing Chinese firms to hand over technology to European companies if they want to operate locally, in an aggressive new push to make the bloc’s industry more competitive.

www.bloomberg.com

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 29d

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Oct 10

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...

The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

www.ft.com

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Oct 6

Hey students from Sweden 🇸🇪: here you can find information for three full scholarships to come to study international security at the Hertie School (@hertieschool.bsky.social, @hertiesecurity.bsky.social) in Berlin.

www.hertie-school.org/en/study/fun...

Ax:son Johnson Scholarship

This scholarship is for applicants from Sweden with a demonstrated interest in international security and German-Swedish relations.

www.hertie-school.org

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · Sep 27

Ouverture de la journée Marc Bloch, vie, combats, héritages, par @jalazard.bsky.social à la Sorbonne

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · Sep 24

Today's #openScience mini kerfuffle is @urisohn.bsky.social 's Data Colada post responding to the JASA paper by @richarddmorey.bsky.social & @clintin.bsky.social critiquing the p-curve.
datacolada.org/129

The whole thing is a bit sad w open-science related debates degenerating into team sports. 1/n

[129] P-curve works in practice, but would it work if you dropped a piano on it? - Data Colada

P-curve is a statistical tool we developed about 15 years ago to help rule out selective reporting, be it p-hacking or file-drawering, as the sole explanation for a set of significant results. This po...

datacolada.org

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · Sep 22

🔱 “Citing the 🇨🇳 Chinese navy, Xinhua News Agency reported that the J-15T and J-35 fighter jets, along with the KJ-600 early warning and command aircraft, recently completed electromagnetic catapult-assisted 🛫 takeoffs and arrested 🛬landings aboard the #Fujian.”

#EMALS

China achieves major aircraft carrier breakthrough

Chinese military aircraft conducted electromagnetic catapult-assisted takeoffs and arrested landings aboard the aircraft carrier CNS Fujian.

www.newsweek.com

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Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social · Sep 19

"Although reports suggest that an initial architecture has been selected, unless expectations are recalibrated, Golden Dome risks (lol) being built to promises rather than requirements, eroding the transparency and confidence needed to make the program sustainable." warontherocks.com/2025/09/gold...

Golden Dome is a Trillion Dollar Gambit

U.S. President Donald Trump set high expectations for “Golden Dome.” His executive order directing development of this homeland air and missile defense

warontherocks.com

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

Thanks Imdad.

Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

Thanks Maaike. Very glad to hear you found it timely and useful!

Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

If you find it interesting, it summarizes a longer report we have written for IEP@BU - Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (which you can find here: tinyurl.com/3nty39cw).

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

Whether you agree or disagree with our suggestions, I do hope you will take time to read it, as it is our contribution - and, in my case, my most important contribution - to European Security.

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

Very happy to see our article ""Europe needs also minds, not just guns" out, which I have written with @aagilli.bsky.social, Antonio Missiroli & Niccolò Petrelli.

www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...

Europe needs also minds - not just guns | ISPI

Europe is rapidly rearming but risks wasting resources without a robust strategic thinking ecosystem, requiring investments

www.ispionline.it

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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · Sep 16

www.ft.com/content/60a9...

Switzerland’s US tech ‘whale’

Conservative central bank has more than $42bn invested in Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Meta