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John B. Sheldon
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John B. Sheldon
@JohnBSheldon
Defence policy, space, cyberspace, metaverse, Lunapolitics and geopolitics wonk. Co-founder of @AstroAnalytica Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
United Kingdom Katılım Ağustos 2009
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War rarely produces clarity for those who initiate it.
Regional capitals will no longer instinctively organise their security calculations around the US. The system has changed now, whether anyone announces it or not.
— END 11/11
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If US strategic credibility and munitions are depleted, political capital is spent, and alliance cohesion is strained then China benefits strategically without firing a shot.
Great power competition is unforgiving of strategic recklessness. 10/11
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I was a defence advisor in the Gulf for several years and saw first hand the complex security dynamics and assumptions at work there.
These are my predictions on what will play out with this current, ill-conceived, US-Israeli-led conflict against Iran - a thread 🧵 1/11
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Sir @Keir_Starmer doesn’t need to lean on international law to justify Britain not joining the US and Israel’s war against #Iran: plain strategic prudence and national interest are enough on their own. 🇬🇧📌 #StrategicThinking
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John B. Sheldon retweetledi
Delighted we were able to assemble such a stellar cast of space experts here at @ConGeostrategy for our first Big Ask dedicated to space power. Short takes on a key question for Britain’s future!
h/t Alec.
▶️ check out our website for more on space power from a UK perspective.
Council on Geostrategy@ConGeostrategy
How important is space power to 🇬🇧 national strategy? We asked 10 experts 👇 ✍️ Marco Aliberti, Ian Annett, Allen Antrobus, James Black, Dr Aleix Nadal Campos, @JCemmell, @Dr_M_Davis, @GElefteriu, Michelle Howard, @JohnBSheldon #BritainsWorld #BigAsk britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-ask-…
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I enjoyed contributing to @ConGeostrategy’s #BigAsk on the importance of #spacepower to the #UK’s national #strategy. The real question for me is whether we have British leaders capable of articulating a UK space strategy. I’m not holding my breath.
Council on Geostrategy@ConGeostrategy
How important is space power to 🇬🇧 national strategy? We asked 10 experts 👇 ✍️ Marco Aliberti, Ian Annett, Allen Antrobus, James Black, Dr Aleix Nadal Campos, @JCemmell, @Dr_M_Davis, @GElefteriu, Michelle Howard, @JohnBSheldon #BritainsWorld #BigAsk britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-ask-…
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My thoughts on the strategic role of universities in national #spacepower are articulated in @uniworldnews
@AstroAnalytica is the UK's leading #geopolitical risk company, providing guidance on navigating the global #space domain.
AstroAnalytica@AstroAnalytica
@JohnBSheldon's full article available now in @uniworldnews universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… And at @AstroAnalytica, we’re helping organisations understand and anticipate these strategic shifts in the space domain. 15/15
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@travelingflying 19 out of 20, I’ve never had an AOL address.
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The #Lunapolitics (@PoliticsLuna) Dispatch #4, for the week of 3 to 9 November 2025, is now out, providing analysis and coverage of the international #lunar competition and activities, and the politics and economics of the #Moon. open.substack.com/pub/lunapoliti…
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Great report by @GElefteriu, who is becoming one of the foremost thinkers on space power in the UK today!
Gabriel Elefteriu FRAeS@GElefteriu
🚨 NEW *SPACE* REPORT!🛰️ Honoured to have the support of the Commander of @UKSpaceCmd, Gen Tedman (@ComdUKSpaceCmd), and of Doug Liddle, Chair of @UKspace, who both wrote Forewords. Report title: "UK space strategy and the national space interest" 🧵 geostrategy.org.uk/research/uk-sp…
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John B. Sheldon retweetledi
🚨 NEW *SPACE* REPORT!🛰️ Honoured to have the support of the Commander of @UKSpaceCmd, Gen Tedman (@ComdUKSpaceCmd), and of Doug Liddle, Chair of @UKspace, who both wrote Forewords. Report title: "UK space strategy and the national space interest"
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geostrategy.org.uk/research/uk-sp…
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#Europe’s real #space gap with the🇺🇸isn’t Earth observation, it’s missile early warning #satellites. #France & #Germany’s JEWEL project could close it, but only if ambition becomes measurable capability.
See my op-ed in @BreakingDefense: breakingdefense.com/2025/10/close-… #Spacepower
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