Yusuf Ozkan
@yozkan.bsky.social
Working at Imperial College London & doing data stuff | PhD researcher at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies in intelligence history | Member @kcsi.uk | Founder @intelarchive.io | Love🚴♂️
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📄 From the impact of growing digitalisation on intelligence to Czechoslovakia’s complex relationship with Middle Eastern revolutionaries, our KCSI members have been busy with sharing their expert insights in several publications this month.
🔗 All publications can be found here: kcsi.uk/publications
🔗 All publications can be found here: kcsi.uk/publications
Our Publications
kcsi.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📄 From the impact of growing digitalisation on intelligence to Czechoslovakia’s complex relationship with Middle Eastern revolutionaries, our KCSI members have been busy with sharing their expert insights in several publications this month.
🔗 All publications can be found here: kcsi.uk/publications
🔗 All publications can be found here: kcsi.uk/publications
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📚 Call for submissions: 2025 Polly Corrigan and Kjetil Hatlebrekke Book Prizes
The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is pleased to open nominations for two distinguished awards celebrating excellence in intelligence and security studies.
The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is pleased to open nominations for two distinguished awards celebrating excellence in intelligence and security studies.
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
📚 Call for submissions: 2025 Polly Corrigan and Kjetil Hatlebrekke Book Prizes
The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is pleased to open nominations for two distinguished awards celebrating excellence in intelligence and security studies.
The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is pleased to open nominations for two distinguished awards celebrating excellence in intelligence and security studies.
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OK, Turkey experts, oil experts, historians, sleuths. I'm looking at a 1945 US intelligence document about a clandestine source in "Oil City." This source is being paid in Turkish lira. What do you think Oil City is and why?
I do not know the answer to this.
I do not know the answer to this.
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
OK, Turkey experts, oil experts, historians, sleuths. I'm looking at a 1945 US intelligence document about a clandestine source in "Oil City." This source is being paid in Turkish lira. What do you think Oil City is and why?
I do not know the answer to this.
I do not know the answer to this.
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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🔎 Times are changing — and so are we. The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is now on Instagram.
Follow for insights on intelligence, security, and global affairs, plus highlights from our research, events, and teaching.
👉 instagram.com/kcsi.uk
Follow for insights on intelligence, security, and global affairs, plus highlights from our research, events, and teaching.
👉 instagram.com/kcsi.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🔎 Times are changing — and so are we. The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is now on Instagram.
Follow for insights on intelligence, security, and global affairs, plus highlights from our research, events, and teaching.
👉 instagram.com/kcsi.uk
Follow for insights on intelligence, security, and global affairs, plus highlights from our research, events, and teaching.
👉 instagram.com/kcsi.uk
This sounds amazing!
On a related note, I'm presently involved in cataloging a very large library of intelligence-related books (not belonging to me) and I'm amazed by how many CIA memoirs have been self-published or published by small presses and then forgotten. Someday maybe I'll put together a bibliography of these.
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This sounds amazing!
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Despite working on US intelligence in World War I off and on since 2006 and despite the fact that I'm slowly writing a journal article on memoirs of American intelligence veterans (all of them), I learned today of the existence of such a memoir that was entirely new to me. #research? #serendipity!
July 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Despite working on US intelligence in World War I off and on since 2006 and despite the fact that I'm slowly writing a journal article on memoirs of American intelligence veterans (all of them), I learned today of the existence of such a memoir that was entirely new to me. #research? #serendipity!
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🚨Publication alert🚨 Our latest Insights piece by Satoshi Yoda - about Cold War operations in Japan - is out now: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
From Langley to Tokyo: The JFK Assassination Files and Communist…
kcsi.uk
July 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🚨Publication alert🚨 Our latest Insights piece by Satoshi Yoda - about Cold War operations in Japan - is out now: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
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My third book. All published by Oxford University Press.
May 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My third book. All published by Oxford University Press.
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"Best Gallipoli books from a Turkish perspective?
Here are five essential works in English."
littlegully.com/blog/best-ga...
Here are five essential works in English."
littlegully.com/blog/best-ga...
Best Gallipoli books from a Turkish perspective
The Ottoman view revealed: Five essential books in English offering rare insight into the Turkish experience at Gallipoli.
littlegully.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"Best Gallipoli books from a Turkish perspective?
Here are five essential works in English."
littlegully.com/blog/best-ga...
Here are five essential works in English."
littlegully.com/blog/best-ga...
Any idea who might have signed this memorandum? It was a War Office memo dated 01 Sep 1914. Possibly initials like ASD, but I'm not entirely sure. I've checked the War Office List, but couldn't spot any names. #skystorians
April 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Any idea who might have signed this memorandum? It was a War Office memo dated 01 Sep 1914. Possibly initials like ASD, but I'm not entirely sure. I've checked the War Office List, but couldn't spot any names. #skystorians
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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📑 My latest for @warontherocks.bsky.social:
#BulgarianSpies #JanMarsalek #OldBailey #WarInUkraine #FSB #GRU
The largest spy trial in UK history revealed an unusual espionage network & how Moscow's covert ops escalated shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
👉 shorturl.at/ymu4U
#BulgarianSpies #JanMarsalek #OldBailey #WarInUkraine #FSB #GRU
The largest spy trial in UK history revealed an unusual espionage network & how Moscow's covert ops escalated shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
👉 shorturl.at/ymu4U
Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe - War on the Rocks
In early 2023, in the sleepy English seaside town of Great Yarmouth, a covert operation was quietly revving into gear. Second-hand Chryslers and a
shorturl.at
April 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
📑 My latest for @warontherocks.bsky.social:
#BulgarianSpies #JanMarsalek #OldBailey #WarInUkraine #FSB #GRU
The largest spy trial in UK history revealed an unusual espionage network & how Moscow's covert ops escalated shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
👉 shorturl.at/ymu4U
#BulgarianSpies #JanMarsalek #OldBailey #WarInUkraine #FSB #GRU
The largest spy trial in UK history revealed an unusual espionage network & how Moscow's covert ops escalated shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
👉 shorturl.at/ymu4U
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🚨Publication alert 🚨Our latest Insights contribution by Dr Huw Dylan - an obituary of Oleg Gordievsky - is now live! kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
Obituary: Oleg Gordievsky
kcsi.uk
April 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚨Publication alert 🚨Our latest Insights contribution by Dr Huw Dylan - an obituary of Oleg Gordievsky - is now live! kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...
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Oleg Gordievsky has died. What makes him so interesting is that he illustrates the stabilising role intelligence can play: he helped Reagan & Thatcher understand the USSR was genuinely worried about nuclear war, allowing them to take that into account in their policy www.bbc.com/news/article...
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies at Surrey home - BBC News
Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious.
www.bbc.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Oleg Gordievsky has died. What makes him so interesting is that he illustrates the stabilising role intelligence can play: he helped Reagan & Thatcher understand the USSR was genuinely worried about nuclear war, allowing them to take that into account in their policy www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Celebrating SIH Authors! Check out these excellent reads:
Gurkan, Emrah Safa. Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the. Great Rivalry with Spain. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024.
Gurkan, Emrah Safa. Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the. Great Rivalry with Spain. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024.
March 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Celebrating SIH Authors! Check out these excellent reads:
Gurkan, Emrah Safa. Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the. Great Rivalry with Spain. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024.
Gurkan, Emrah Safa. Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the. Great Rivalry with Spain. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024.
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I wrote this in 2022: the most important capability in statecraft is to be able to decide, and sometimes to take the initiative. No amount of defence spending will help if the structures for understanding, deciding and acting are weak. engelsbergideas.com/essays/eleme...
Element of surprise — the West needs to be more unpredictable
The West’s preoccupation with transparency, debate and consensus has rendered it slow and predictable. In this age of strategic competition, it is imperative that it regains the ability to surprise.
engelsbergideas.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I wrote this in 2022: the most important capability in statecraft is to be able to decide, and sometimes to take the initiative. No amount of defence spending will help if the structures for understanding, deciding and acting are weak. engelsbergideas.com/essays/eleme...
The very first reaction by the FO clerk to the news of the Ottoman Black Sea raid on 29 October 1914. He might just be the first person contributing to the enduring debate over who was responsible for the Ottoman entry into war. It reminds me Mustafa Aksakal 's great work doi.org/10.1017/CBO9...
February 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The very first reaction by the FO clerk to the news of the Ottoman Black Sea raid on 29 October 1914. He might just be the first person contributing to the enduring debate over who was responsible for the Ottoman entry into war. It reminds me Mustafa Aksakal 's great work doi.org/10.1017/CBO9...
I've co-authored a short post with @openscihamid.bsky.social about Imperial research outputs cited on @bsky.app.
By using @altmetric.com, we found a massive uptick in mentions of Imperial publications on Bluesky from mid-November 2024.
Read the full post here:
blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2...
By using @altmetric.com, we found a massive uptick in mentions of Imperial publications on Bluesky from mid-November 2024.
Read the full post here:
blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2...
February 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I've co-authored a short post with @openscihamid.bsky.social about Imperial research outputs cited on @bsky.app.
By using @altmetric.com, we found a massive uptick in mentions of Imperial publications on Bluesky from mid-November 2024.
Read the full post here:
blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2...
By using @altmetric.com, we found a massive uptick in mentions of Imperial publications on Bluesky from mid-November 2024.
Read the full post here:
blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2...
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This 👇 “Misinformation was a key feature of medieval politics and society. Examining the spread of fake news, or conspiracy theories, in the centuries before even the printing press, never mind the internet, helps us understand how they flourish and their appeal.”
‘Misinformation was a key feature of medieval politics and society. Examining the spread of fake news, or conspiracy theories, in the centuries before even the printing press, never mind the internet, helps us understand how they flourish and their appeal’
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/misinfo...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/misinfo...
Misinformation in the Middle Ages: Towards understanding conspiracy theories throughout history
Has 'fake news' always existed? As part of our 'Age of Mistrust?' season, Dr Gordon McKelvie explores misinformation in the Middle Ages and the role of conspiracy theories across history.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This 👇 “Misinformation was a key feature of medieval politics and society. Examining the spread of fake news, or conspiracy theories, in the centuries before even the printing press, never mind the internet, helps us understand how they flourish and their appeal.”
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Source collections like these Zotero groups are incredibly cool and and awesome way to dive into a topic beyond just what you will find with a simple JSTOR search.
It's a fantastic library and definitely worth following & supporting. I really value initiatives like this. They're collaborative, open source, and research user-friendly.
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
Don't forget to sign up for our collaborative bibliography on @zotero.org, edited by the team from @balloons2drones.bsky.social. Covers #airpowerhistory, theory, and current operations in their broadest sense, including #spacepower. www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #plsRT
January 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Source collections like these Zotero groups are incredibly cool and and awesome way to dive into a topic beyond just what you will find with a simple JSTOR search.
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Collaborative Zotero libraries on airpower, the first world war, and intelligence studies
How super useful
bsky.app/profile/yozk...
How super useful
bsky.app/profile/yozk...
It's a fantastic library and definitely worth following & supporting. I really value initiatives like this. They're collaborative, open source, and research user-friendly.
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
Don't forget to sign up for our collaborative bibliography on @zotero.org, edited by the team from @balloons2drones.bsky.social. Covers #airpowerhistory, theory, and current operations in their broadest sense, including #spacepower. www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #plsRT
January 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Collaborative Zotero libraries on airpower, the first world war, and intelligence studies
How super useful
bsky.app/profile/yozk...
How super useful
bsky.app/profile/yozk...
It's a fantastic library and definitely worth following & supporting. I really value initiatives like this. They're collaborative, open source, and research user-friendly.
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
Don't forget to sign up for our collaborative bibliography on @zotero.org, edited by the team from @balloons2drones.bsky.social. Covers #airpowerhistory, theory, and current operations in their broadest sense, including #spacepower. www.zotero.org/groups/51104... #plsRT
Zotero | Groups > Air and Space Power Bibliography
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
www.zotero.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It's a fantastic library and definitely worth following & supporting. I really value initiatives like this. They're collaborative, open source, and research user-friendly.
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
You might also be interested in other libraries:
First World War: @fwwsoc.bsky.social
Intelligence studies: @intelarchive.io
This is a perfect pit stop while reading Mesut Uyar’s book on the FWW.
I talked about Atatürk and strategy in the latest episode RUSI's Talking Strategy. You can listen from the link below
rusi.org/podcasts/tal...
rusi.org/podcasts/tal...
Episode 8: Transforming a Nation: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership.
rusi.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is a perfect pit stop while reading Mesut Uyar’s book on the FWW.
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I talked about Atatürk and strategy in the latest episode RUSI's Talking Strategy. You can listen from the link below
rusi.org/podcasts/tal...
rusi.org/podcasts/tal...
Episode 8: Transforming a Nation: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership.
rusi.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I talked about Atatürk and strategy in the latest episode RUSI's Talking Strategy. You can listen from the link below
rusi.org/podcasts/tal...
rusi.org/podcasts/tal...