Alex Waterman

Order in Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, (@COIN_Doctrines), Ceasefires, NE India. Co-Ed @JournalofCW. @BDPeaceAndDev. Guitars. LUFC. @alexwaterman.bsky.social

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

Early Christmas present! Very excited to have signed a contract with Oxford University Press to publish "Managing Insurgency: Counterinsurgency and Order Negotiation in Northeast India."

Watch this space in 2026!

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

Just in case you missed it - this is the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff failing to confirm that the British Army could deploy 1000 troops to the continent of Europe.

[Cormac Smith 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @CormacS63]

"Oh shit, we're f****d."

If you can pull yourself away from bloody Iran & read just one article on Ukraine, please let it be this one, by the consistently right @edwardlucas:

“We are on a collision course with a fast rearming Russia”

General Sir Roland Walker, head of 🇬🇧 army.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Straight from Moscow - literally - not even using cover anymore. Britain needs to wake up to what Reform is all about.

[Ben Harris @btharris93]

Obviously we laugh at and mock these people, but in all seriousness I do find it very concerning how through nothing more than social media conspiracy slop, Russia has been able to turn a small but significant portion of British society into literal fifth columnists.

[GAURAV KUMAR @gaurav15_isk]

Me & @_AlexWaterman write @SAVoices .Major Takeaways:

– Security must come before development in Manipur.

– Violence keeps stalling growth & connectivity projects.

– Bodoland shows unified security > fragmented ceasefires.
@avasudeva_87
@andrewjgordan @PMOIndia @manipurmygov

[South Asian Voices @SAVoices]

Development cannot precede security in India's Northeast, argue @_AlexWaterman and @gaurav15_isk in their engaging analysis of Modi's Ashtalakshmi vision amid enduring challenges in Manipur. https://t.co/GQcouDDwKs

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

Reports of another series of drone strikes in the NE India borderlands, this time against NSCN-K/YA following a recent clash in Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. Cross-border drone strikes becoming a part of the logic of state-rebel conflict in the region https://t.co/WhzwLDEHDn

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

Reports of large-scale drone strikes against northeast Indian insurgent camps in Myanmar. As with most other conflict zones, the Northeast/Sagaing border area has gradually seen the arrival of drone warfare over the last couple of years https://t.co/7YS31swFaw

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

My India Review article with Ben Holt analysing variation in the character of state-rebel conflict across Northeast India's "Highland," "Heartland" and "Hinterland" conflicts is the journal’s 3rd most-read article in the last year!

Read it OA here: https://t.co/nfgrolQq92

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

Reports of large-scale drone strikes against northeast Indian insurgent camps in Myanmar. As with most other conflict zones, the Northeast/Sagaing border area has gradually seen the arrival of drone warfare over the last couple of years https://t.co/7YS31swFaw

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

So excited to incorporate AI into the classroom and liberate my students from boring tasks like reading and thinking

[James Worrall @PolViolence]

Pleased to see the second article from our @HenkelStiftung funded research project on counterinsurgency doctrine published online, plenty more to come. I’ll let @_AlexWaterman explain this one in his detailed thread!

[Rob Geist Pinfold @DrRGeistPinfold]

Looks like a belter - and it’s open access!

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

May be of interest @WarInstitute, @IrregWarfare, @TraversMcLeod, @DrJohnNagl, @OfficialCLAWSIN @DefenceResNet

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

In this open-access article with @PolViolence in Journal of Strategic Studies, we theorise how specific elements of knowledge - in this case knowledge of insurgencies - are integrated, negotiated and codified into doctrine https://t.co/qVf45L1V07

[Alex Waterman @_AlexWaterman]

Many thanks to @HenkelStiftung for supporting this project + to our interlocutors and participants who were so generous in their time. Thanks also to members of the @DefenceResNet COIN Forum + editors @jmaiolo + team and reviewers for such a constructive and supportive process!