Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Shashank Joshi
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How the hell does this guy get near a clearance?
How did they not come up with something better in the MONTHS they had to prepare the FCAS cancellation?!
No plan B on the fighter; French press (and others) report it was Berlin which ended it; Spain (the third partner!!) nowhere to be seen. They didn’t even manage to end this mess correctly 🤯
I.C.E. maintains a strict dress code for people seeking to visit their loved ones caged at Delaney Hall. It’s clear the strict rule is useful pretext to deny visitors entry. #ICE #DHS
Very sorry to see that Sir Alex Younger has died of cancer, aged just 62. Younger's wife 'was shocked that he had never told his mother he was a spy, and so he did. “Yes, darling, so was I,” his mother replied.' www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
Shashank Joshi
"In the code of America’s greatest generals, hatred of war has been as foundational as grim awareness of the necessity to prepare for it." www.economist.com/united-state...
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Charming and self-effacing British spy chief with an inner steel
For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...
Bored of waiting for the DIP? Try the Choose-Your-Own-DIP-Adventure simulator for UK defence spending trade-offs. An entertaining (and hopefully not too libellous) way to put Opus 4.8 through its paces.
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I wrote on Bill Pulte, Trump’s appointment as director of national intelligence, despite having no relevant national-security experience & with vanishingly low odds of being confirmed by the Senate. Another indignity for the US intelligence community. www.economist.com/united-state...
Bovino appears to have bought up Rommel, unprompted. www.breizh-info.com/2026/05/28/2...
Shashank Joshi
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Hm. 'In an interview with a far-right website ahead of the summit, Bovino — who didn’t wear his controversial coat — referenced Nazi Germany’s lead general Erwin Rommel as an inspirational figure' www.politico.eu/article/afd-...
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Gregory Bovino and Jared Taylor flew in to support activists once deemed too toxic even by European far-right parties.
