Thou Shall Stop! is not a strategy Matt Armstrong, March 18th, 2019, https://mountainrunner.us/2019/03/thou-shall-stop-is-not-a-strategy/ Articles appear periodically on how the United States, or its allies, could improve its game in today’s decentralized […]Read More
Kevin Truitte, Georgetown University Security Studies Review March 11th, 2019 http://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/03/11/an-american-national-information-security-strategy/ In today’s Digital Age, information is a potent weapon. American adversaries such as Russia and China understand the power […]Read More
The path from online propaganda to murder isn’t only the domain of the Islamic State Philip Bump, March 15th, 2019, Washington Post It didn’t take long for American authorities to […]Read More
In Indonesia, Facebook and Twitter Are ‘Buzzer’ Battlegrounds as Elections Loom Reuters in the New York Times, March 13th, 2019 Almost every day, “Janda”, a self-described Indonesian housewife with 2,000 […]Read More
#DisinfoWeek was a series of strategic dialogues focused on the global challenge of disinformation. The Atlantic Council, together with U.S. Missions and Embassies in Europe, hosted a series of events […]Read More
Laura Rosenberger and Thomas Morley, March 11th, 2019, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the U.S.https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/russias-promotion-of-illiberal-populism-tools-tactics-networks/ Understanding the rise of illiberal populism has been a focus of recent […]Read More
Chris Zappone, March 12, 2019, The Strategist https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/in-fighting-online-interference-the-first-line-of-defence-is-the-mind/ ‘Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests’, British statesman Lord Palmerston famously observed. Two centuries later, the […]Read More
Social Media are being weaponizedEconomist, March 14th, 2019https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/03/16/preparing-for-conflicts-by-cyber-means When Latvia conducted its biggest-ever national military exercise last August, which mobilized more than 10,000 people, a group of researchers discovered that […]Read More
Our TakeIn a new paper, ASD Director Laura Rosenberger and Research Assistant Tom Morley show how the Russian government and its proxies nurture and shape illiberal populist movements as a […]Read More
The Department of Defense continued support for fundamental research by selecting 12 faculty investigators for awards through the fiscal year 2018 Minerva Research Initiative. Several of the winners:The Role of […]Read More