ASPI works closely with Twitter to analyse information operations and disinformation datasets. High-confidence attribution isn’t always possible in the analysis of these datasets, but we can identify behavioural patterns within the data in order to …
A new website launched by ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre is designed to identify nations using deception operations to manipulate potential adversaries, and their own populations. The Understanding Global Disinformation and Information Operations website provides …
As geostrategic circumstances darken, there’s new interest in military mobilisation. For Australia, that involves moving the Australian Defence Force beyond its normal peacetime rate of effort. It can be an all-of-nation mobilisation for the ‘big’ …
Shellshock (n) 1. psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to active warfare, especially being under bombardment; 2. a particularly alarming software bug that could be used to take control of hundreds of millions of machines around …
In the first post in this series, I argued that Islamic State (IS) is neither a terrorist organisation nor unique as some claim, and that it’s better seen as an insurgency. In the second post, …
