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 …
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).
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 …
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 …
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 …