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Information Warfare

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

OPINION — “Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in [...] More

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Top U.S. Commanders See Major Pacific Risks

Top U.S. Commanders See Major Pacific Risks

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — A pair of top U.S. military commanders warned Congress last week of dangers in their areas of operations which could factor [...] More

China's Information Operations Are Heating Up

OPINION — “China views psychological warfare, centered on the manipulation of information to influence adversary decision-making and behavior, as one [...] More

A General's View of Future Information Wars

OPINION — U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is expanding its Military Information Support Operations (MISO) because in the current environment, [...] More

Don't Lose Sight of the Russian Threat to American Democracy

Don't Lose Sight of the Russian Threat to American Democracy

It has now been 18 months since the November 2016 presidential election, during which the U.S. intelligence community believes Russia acted not only [...] More

Russian Infowar Targets Transatlantic Bonds

Russian Infowar Targets Transatlantic Bonds

The West’s coordinated expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is a sign, perhaps, of a [...] More

Could AI-Driven Info Warfare Be Democracy’s Achilles Heel?

Ripped out of the pages of science fiction novels, artificially intelligent, self-aware weapons systems could become a global existential threat, if [...] More

Terabit Army: China Squares up on the Battlefield of Information

Terabit Army: China Squares up on the Battlefield of Information

The People’s Republic of China has not fought a war since 1979, but the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been a very close student of other [...] More

Russia Aims to 'Demoralize and Confuse Us'

Much has been written about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election – the theft and selective leaking of information, the attempt to tamper with [...] More

Russian Active Measures and the 2016 Election Hack

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Funny, that. The Soviet and Russian [...] More

Exposing Russian Interference - The Value of Real-Time Forensics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to exploit open and free U.S. cyberspace, which serves as a force multiplier for commerce and freedom of [...] More

Fixing the Foreign Agents Registration Act

Fixing the Foreign Agents Registration Act

The blowback over forcing Russian news outlets “Russia Today” (RT) and “Sputnik” to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) has [...] More

How Cyber Gray-Ops Became the New Norm in the Middle East

How Cyber Gray-Ops Became the New Norm in the Middle East

Cyber-enabled information operations in the Gulf, such as the one that seemingly spurred the ongoing feud between Qatar and its neighbors, represent [...] More