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Jul
18

Breaking Bad: The Art of Selling Your Own Scandal

Scandals sell news - but how do you navigate out of a PR crisis when the press are camped on your front lawn?
1 min read
Jun
16

Iraq: a quantum shift in the AO - Welcome to #DesertStormMKII

The first Gulf War ended more than a decade before Twitter launched - and much has changed on the battlefield, on and offline, since.
2 min read
Jan
16

The Long Con: The Evolution of Social Engineering

Hacking human cognition isn't a new phenomena. The art of persuasion and influence has evolved with advances in communications technology.
3 min read
Dec
29

Osama Bin Laden as the new ‘Saladin’: Two great parallels in Arab history

Two of the greatest parallels in Arab history : ‘Saladin’ and ‘Osama Bin Laden’, can be studied to gain an understanding of the Arab intellect toward terrorist operations and their underlying motivations.
16 min read
Dec
28

Abandonment, Abduction … Murder? Media Success and Sorrow : Madeline McCann & Qian Xun ‘Pumpkin’ Xue

How media frames can impact the success or failure of police investigations.
10 min read