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Aaron MacLean

@AaronBMacLean · Virginia, USA · joined 29 Nov 2013

Host @schoolofwarpod, national security analyst @CBSNews, columnist @TheFP

14 610Followers
1 763Following
6 982Posts total
172.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views7 878this account2 578median for 10K–100K
Reach, %53.93%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.67%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post7 8782 5783.06×
Reach (views ÷ followers)53.93%7.77%6.94×
Engagement rate0.67%1.47%0.46×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

114.6K30 Dec
9.4K31 Aug
5.4K
9.7K1 Sep
3.5K
9.9K
6.4K
10K2 Sep
3.3K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.17%30 Dec
0.28%31 Aug
0.81%
0.44%1 Sep
0.78%
0.57%
0.94%
0.21%2 Sep
0.93%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes71.9%399 in total
Reposts9.9%55 in total
Replies7.0%39 in total
Quotes2.0%11 in total
Bookmarks9.2%51 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

I like how in the screen capture here I look vaguely concerned, even cornered. 3.3K views · 23 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 I'm 6 minutes in and I'm loving this conversation. @AaronBMacLean on Ask A Jew. @yaelbt and @SaysCL are hilarious. A Deep Dive Into The War of 1812 - Just kidding, but Aaron MacLean is here https://t.co/n1kRY4gSOe via @YouTube 10K views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 I've been interrogated before, but it's never been as fun as on the Ask A Jew podcast! 6.4K views · 52 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies 01 Sep 2026 Are we winning in Iran? Why is Turkey so annoying? And will @AaronBMacLean always remain a friend of the Jews, or is El Al security going to ruin our relationship?? All this and more, in our Ask A Jew interview with CBS military analyst and host of the @schoolofwarpod podcast! h 9.9K views · 45 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 Today Dave Goldfein (fighter pilot + Chief of Staff of the Air Force, 2016-20) and I talk the cognitive demands of air combat, the digital rev. in the military, the famous time he became a pilot w/ "more take-offs than landings"... & what it was like to come home to his famil 3.5K views · 23 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 “These guys were not going home without me. I’ll forever be indebted to them.” Shot down over Serbia, Gen. David Goldfein evaded enemy forces as an Air Force rescue team fought to bring him home. He tells @AaronBMacLean the story on School of War. https://t.co/XPhHxw3ncl 9.7K views · 35 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 Want to understand the intraparty foreign policy debates on both left and right in 2026? Turns out, the early 1950s were very similar… 5.4K views · 36 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 “The Korean War almost prefigures the origin of the neoconservatives.” DJ Cash, author of The Forgotten Debate, tells @AaronBMacLean how the Korean War split American liberals over communism, containment, and military power, foreshadowing the rise of neoconservatism decades http 9.4K views · 21 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 We produced nearly 100 episodes of @schoolofwarpod in 2025. It was quite a year: authors like Stephen Kotkin (Ep. 180), Andrew Roberts (Ep. 189), @DouglasKMurray (Ep. 193), Walter Russell Mead (Ep. 186), and @barrystrauss (Ep. 224). Public figures like @TomCottonAR (Ep. 183); 114.6K views · 150 likes · 27 reposts · 15 replies 30 Dec 2025

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