
Influence
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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)....
Influence Wars
This article is based on a presentation I delivered as part of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) War in 2025 Conference, held in Canberra from 12...
Strawberry Terrorism: Why ISIS are interested in Australia’s Strawberry Crisis
ISIS have published a series of propaganda posters in an attempt to turn one of our favourite sweet fruits into a game of edible Russian roulette.
The power of info ops for-good campaigns
The term ‘information operations' or ‘info ops’ is usually used in a military context to describe operational influence activities designed to degrade an enemy's capability and impact their decision making.
The Content Wars: my article for 'NATO Review'
This open-source intelligence investigation found that so-called Islamic State run a sophisticated peer-to-peer network, which is worlds apart from the perception that ‘social media’ alone radicalises young men and women.