The Battlefield Within: The information war has many targets, its most valuable is you
Operations in the information environment (OIE) are experiencing something of a renaissance thanks to social media and the democratisation of …
Category: IO/IW
NATO in 2040: An Information Odyssey
This paper was written for NATO’s Innovation Hub as part of their Warfighting in 2040 report. All rights are reserved …
Why taking a scorched-earth approach to social media companies won’t win the war on terror.
This article first appeared in the LexisNexis Rule of Law Digest in December 2019 (Volume 8, Issue 2).
Converged Crises: Noxious Actors and Guerrilla Information Warfare
With information disorder cascading through contemporary crises, understanding risk in a new way has become a critical skill for those …
Influence Wars
This article is based on a presentation I delivered as part of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) War in …
Strawberry Terrorism: Why ISIS are interested in Australia’s Strawberry Crisis
With no primary saboteur yet in custody over the insertion of needles into fresh Australian strawberries, ISIS have published a …
The power of info ops for-good campaigns
The term ‘information operations’ – or ‘info ops’ – is usually used in a military context. In more recent times …
4 minutes in North Korea
During the Korean Summer of 2014, I boarded an early morning bus at Camp Kim USO in Yongsan, Seoul and …
The Content Wars: my article for ‘NATO Review’
This article was first published by NATO’s Review Magazine and is republished here with permission. Content Wars: Daesh’s sophisticated use …
Believe it or not – Daesh’s Alrawi App is a game changer.
There is some contention on the interwebs about whether or not Daesh have in fact developed an Android app called Alrawi …