Ideas
Stop Making a Big Deal of NATO’s Next Members
Moscow wants to pretend that admitting Sweden and Finland would represent a far larger military change than it actually is.
Ideas
Four Ways China Is Growing Its Media Influence in Southeast Asia
Beijing is trying to burnish its image in the region. What if it took aim at America’s instead?
Science & Tech
The Backlash to DHS's Anti-Disinformation Board Shows How US Law Is Falling Behind the Problem
Legal ambiguity may have crippled DHS’s new board from the start.
Science & Tech
As Satellite Images Reshape Conflict, Worries Mount About Keeping Them Safe
Radio data collected from space is the next frontier.
Science & Tech
NGA Will Take Over Pentagon’s Flagship AI Program
Agency also sending new special spy drones to Eastern Europe.
Science & Tech
What Does Musk's Purchase of Twitter Mean for Disinformation?
His free-speech values could undermine the site's efforts to stem foreign influence operations.
Science & Tech
Satellite-Imaging Firm to Double Its High-Resolution Constellation
Planet’s new sats will allow more photos of global hot spots per day.
Ideas
The Pentagon Must ‘Campaign’ Against China, Not Hope for a Goal-Line Stand
To dissuade aggression, the U.S. military must continuously persuade its adversaries to doubt their chances of success.
Ideas
How Strategic Messaging Can Help Turn Putin Around
Cracks in the Russian leader's popular support can be deepened with careful appeals to the nation’s history and sense of greatness.
Ideas
The US Needs a Center to Counter Foreign Malign Influence at Home
National security entities coordinate their fight against disinformation abroad. They need a way to do so within our borders.
Science & Tech
Putin Lost the Digital War Abroad. Will He Lose at Home?
Its diplomatic efforts in tatters, its agencies beset by cyber vigilantes, the Russian government is still choking off the information that fuels its homegrown protest movement.
Science & Tech
Ukraine Braces for Sharper Russian Cyber Attacks
Kyiv recruits "IT Army," receives satellite terminals. But worse is to come, says Senate intel committee chair.
Science & Tech
Kremlin Cracks Down Harder on Media, Facebook as Protests Sweep Russia
Citizens “have a certain amount of capacity to express themselves, but it’s narrowing,” one observer says
Threats
In an Information War, Be Careful What You Amplify
An announcement about an annual Russian reserve-forces exercise has some people speculating unhelpfully.
Science & Tech
US Companies Warned to Prepare for Russian Cyber Attacks
DOJ’s Lisa Monaco warns industry to harden defenses; Ukraine’s foreign weapons systems are a likely target for Russian hackers.
Threats
Just Whom Would a Russian 'False Flag' Operation Seek to Convince?
Russians themselves are likely the main target of the recent crescendo of disinformation, mostly from Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine.
Ideas
Why the US Ramped Up Its Information War With Russia
Pre-buttals may become a standard part of the American playbook.
Ideas
‘War Is Coming’: Mysterious TikTok Videos Are Scaring Sweden’s Children
The campaign offers an early test for the country’s new anti-disinformation agency.
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Science & Tech
Common Office Desk Phone Could Be Leaking Info to Chinese Government, Report Alleges
Phones by Yealink have been observed sending encrypted messages to Chinese servers three times a day.
Ideas
2021 Top Ten: Ideas
The intertwined need to confront China and climate change, turning the tables on Russian psyops, and more.
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