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 …
Author: Nicole Matejic
Nicole is an internationally recognised and trusted authority on navigating national security, crisis and emergency management challenges in an environment of converged threat and risk. Nicole is highly regarded for her work in distilling how terrorist organisations use inauthentic influence operations in violent extremism and radicalisation, Nicole is a regular instructor for and speaker to NATO and a Non-Resident Fellow at The Krulak Center at the United States Marine Corps University. Nicole is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern Queensland, where she is researching the path to jihad. Her thesis ‘The Jihadi Nudge’ is a multidisciplinary body of work that investigates how terrorist organisations use behavioural economics models of choice architecture (or decision science) to influence individuals toward radicalisation and recruitment. Nicole is an Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University in the School of National Security and Terrorism.
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 …
Citizen decision-making in a contested information environment
Published as part of the Australian National University, National Security College Futures Series, 2020.
Leadership is not a swagger
In the space of less than six months, Australia has gone from catastrophic bushfires to being part of a global …
The Fake News Kung Fu
Just like the Chinese Martial Art of Kung Fu, dealing with fake news requires study, learning, practice, patience, energy and …
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).
Apocalypse Near? A brief primer on Accelerationism.
This blog is intended as a brief primer on the complex concept of accelerationism – with a focus on terrorist …