NK Finney
@nathankfinney.com
Soldier | Historian | Fellow, Duke Program on American Grand Strategy & IPSI @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social | Ed. @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Chair, Advisory Board @milwritersguild.bsky.social | Book = “Orchestrating Power” (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
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NK Finney
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Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...
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Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
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Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
I am loved. Doesn’t get better.
February 15, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I am loved. Doesn’t get better.
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Gramsci watching the Super Bowl: “It’s the war of position!”
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Gramsci watching the Super Bowl: “It’s the war of position!”
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February 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Access a decade of peer-to-peer professional writing with the sole purpose of developing the next generation of leaders
in strategy, national security, & military affairs ==>
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Building on Grumbach's point here, putting the onus on advocates and citizens to change public opinion for you is not political leadership; it is bad faith cowardice.
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Building on Grumbach's point here, putting the onus on advocates and citizens to change public opinion for you is not political leadership; it is bad faith cowardice.
“…through the course of the war the goals of the council shifted based on input, support, and both robust and passive resistance by state citizens.” (Page 8)
BTW - Love these pics friends send me of them with “Orchestrating Power”!
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BTW - Love these pics friends send me of them with “Orchestrating Power”!
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January 31, 2026 at 6:29 PM
“…through the course of the war the goals of the council shifted based on input, support, and both robust and passive resistance by state citizens.” (Page 8)
BTW - Love these pics friends send me of them with “Orchestrating Power”!
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BTW - Love these pics friends send me of them with “Orchestrating Power”!
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Louis Brandeis got here first and best, in 1927: “If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence”.
January 31, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Louis Brandeis got here first and best, in 1927: “If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence”.
Frozen day = s’mores evening…
January 25, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Frozen day = s’mores evening…
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On this episode of @cimsec.bsky.social #SeaControl, I host Dr. Elsa Kania to discuss her in-depth research of Chinese Command and Control.
To understand how the #CCP commands the #PLA, and how the #PLA command its forces, give this episode a listen! #WriteFightWin
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To understand how the #CCP commands the #PLA, and how the #PLA command its forces, give this episode a listen! #WriteFightWin
open.spotify.com/episode/1xQc...
January 23, 2026 at 12:46 AM
On this episode of @cimsec.bsky.social #SeaControl, I host Dr. Elsa Kania to discuss her in-depth research of Chinese Command and Control.
To understand how the #CCP commands the #PLA, and how the #PLA command its forces, give this episode a listen! #WriteFightWin
open.spotify.com/episode/1xQc...
To understand how the #CCP commands the #PLA, and how the #PLA command its forces, give this episode a listen! #WriteFightWin
open.spotify.com/episode/1xQc...
Cool opportunity thanks to @dukesanford.bsky.social/AGS.
January 22, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Cool opportunity thanks to @dukesanford.bsky.social/AGS.
Thanks to John Fea and his team for doing a quick interview on “Orchestrating Power”!
thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/01/20/t...
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The Author’s Corner with Nathan K. Finney
Nathan K. Finney is a U.S. Army strategist; a non-resident research fellow at The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy; a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Securi…
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January 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Thanks to John Fea and his team for doing a quick interview on “Orchestrating Power”!
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Now up to 4 book talks scheduled for the next few months. Really excited and humbled to be asked to talk about “Orchestrating Power”!
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January 18, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Now up to 4 book talks scheduled for the next few months. Really excited and humbled to be asked to talk about “Orchestrating Power”!
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“Chinese businesses in Latin America must be more cautious, assess geopolitical conditions, avoid sensitive critical infrastructure, & focus on trade rather than investment… [&] structure investments through multilateral bodies so as to avoid U.S. scrutiny.”
thediplomat.com/2026/01/chin...
thediplomat.com/2026/01/chin...
China’s Muted Response to Venezuela: Sober Alarm, Not Nationalist Bombast
The official Chinese narrative foregrounds international condemnation and positions Beijing as defender of the international order. But Chinese commentary strikes a different tone.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:26 AM
“Chinese businesses in Latin America must be more cautious, assess geopolitical conditions, avoid sensitive critical infrastructure, & focus on trade rather than investment… [&] structure investments through multilateral bodies so as to avoid U.S. scrutiny.”
thediplomat.com/2026/01/chin...
thediplomat.com/2026/01/chin...
"The prime minister is saying, essentially, that Canada has agency too, and that it's not going to just sit and wait for the United States”
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Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
Carney says Canada's relationship with China has become "more predictable" than that with the US, as his country searches for trade certainty.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:17 AM
"The prime minister is saying, essentially, that Canada has agency too, and that it's not going to just sit and wait for the United States”
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thanks to the Society for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era @shgape.bsky.social for sharing information on "Orchestrating Power"!
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Orchestrating Power The American Associational State in the First World War by Nathan K. Finney - SHGAPE
Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. Nathan K. Finney focuses on North Carolina’s Council of Defense to descr...
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January 17, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Thanks to the Society for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era @shgape.bsky.social for sharing information on "Orchestrating Power"!
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Apparently DoD’s priority theater follows me around…
January 4, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Apparently DoD’s priority theater follows me around…
Great to make the pilgrimage up to the Triangle…spend some time with smart friends and see the old stomping grounds.
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Great to make the pilgrimage up to the Triangle…spend some time with smart friends and see the old stomping grounds.
“Translating emotions and thoughts into words on paper is a complex mental task. It involves…engaging brain areas associated with memory and decision-making. It also involves putting those memories into language, activating the brain’s visual and motor systems.”
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Neuroscience explains why writing creates mental clarity
Writing offers a unique way to name your pain and create distance from it. By engaging the brain’s memory and decision-making centers, this simple daily practice helps shift your mindset from overwhel...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“Translating emotions and thoughts into words on paper is a complex mental task. It involves…engaging brain areas associated with memory and decision-making. It also involves putting those memories into language, activating the brain’s visual and motor systems.”
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Perfect New Year’s Day…reading a good book while the wife works a puzzle.
January 2, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Perfect New Year’s Day…reading a good book while the wife works a puzzle.
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Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
Last day (in 2025) to grab a copy of “Orchestrating Power”!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Last day (in 2025) to grab a copy of “Orchestrating Power”!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
It wasn’t a banner year for reading, but it was eclectic. Aiming for twice as many in 2026.
If I could recommend only one, it’s definitely “Death of the Author” by @nnedi.bsky.social. Her books are imaginative, innovative, and thoughtful.
If I could recommend only one, it’s definitely “Death of the Author” by @nnedi.bsky.social. Her books are imaginative, innovative, and thoughtful.
December 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It wasn’t a banner year for reading, but it was eclectic. Aiming for twice as many in 2026.
If I could recommend only one, it’s definitely “Death of the Author” by @nnedi.bsky.social. Her books are imaginative, innovative, and thoughtful.
If I could recommend only one, it’s definitely “Death of the Author” by @nnedi.bsky.social. Her books are imaginative, innovative, and thoughtful.