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Static Inertia: The Legal Challenges to Making Progress on an Effective Military Information Strategy
January 4, 2022 — The United States military is constantly reorganizing and retooling itself to address information operations in gray-zone competition. Unfortunately, forward progress is hard to come by, and operations in the information environment remain an Achilles’ heel, which adversaries use against us to great effect. There is no shortage of ideas and proposals to address the information operations problem, but no solution has been able to overcome the static inertia and impel progress.

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Episode 3: 21st Century Propaganda: Understanding Today's Threats
December 22, 2021 — This podcast explores how threat actors are manipulating the British and American information environments and provides recommendations for how the government and citizenry might defend themselves. David V. Gioe and co-authors Daniel Dobrowolski and Alicia Wanless argue that enforcing heavy moderation of content is counterproductive and that civic education, transparency, media literacy and ongoing research into the methods that threat actors use are essential to guide an effective response.

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Cybersecurity Anomaly Detection in Adversarial Environments
November 3, 2021 — The proliferation of interconnected battlefield information-sharing devices, known as the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT), introduced several security challenges. Inherent to the IoBT operating environment is the practice of adversarial machine learning, which attempts to circumvent machine learning models.

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Cyber Response is a Team Effort
July 27, 2020 — READ MORE MORE

5th SFG(A) Cyber Detachment stays ready with virtual competition
April 17, 2020 — READ MORE MORE

High Frequency Communications Features Highs and Lows
February 1, 2020 — READ MORE MORE

$High Frequency Communications Features Highs and Lows: As cyber threats continue to grow, so does the reality that digital satellite communications can be degraded and denied either through digital or electromagnetic means. If these capabilities are compromised, however, high frequency radio provides a means to continue communicating even beyond the line of sight by leveraging the ionosphere to refract radio signals back to earth.$

Cyber Policy team sweeps Texas Cyber 9/12 competition
January 30, 2020 — READ MORE MORE

Members of Team Black Jacks of the West Point Cyber Policy Cyber Policy team sweeps Texas Cyber 9/12 competition: Team make their policy recommendations to the judges during the Atlantic Council's Cyber 9/12 Student Strategy Challenge at the University of Texas at Austin Law School

Why Iran would avoid a major cyberwar
January 17, 2020 — READ MORE MORE

Demonstrations in Iran last year and signs of the regime’s demise raise a question: What would the strategic outcome be of a massive cyber engagement with a foreign country or alliance?

Are you at greater risk of cyber attacks when international tensions climb?
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A new mindset for the Army: silent running
December 6, 2019 — READ MORE MORE

A new mindset for the Army: silent running. The Virginia-class attack submarine Indiana departs Newport News Shipbuilding to conduct sea trials. The Indiana is one of the last of the Block III Virginias. The Army may want to consider following the idea of "silent running" that many submarines use to operate.