Social Media Ideas for Geopolitical Information Operations

Operation Sindoor 2.0: Indian Armed Forces Expand Into Multi-Domain Warfare Amid Transparent Battlefields And Informatio...

General Upendra Dwivedi has confirmed that Operation Sindoor remains active despite a pause in hostilities, with the tri-services preparing for “Operation Sindoor 2.0.”The Indian m...

Russia’s Wiki Warfare Tries to Distort Reality, Documents Show

Russian influence operators called it Project 2026. The plan wasn’t just to spread fabricated stories on social media platforms. It outlined efforts to create an alternative inform...

Global conflicts drive new cyber-risks to critical systems

ISJ hears exclusively from Magpie Graham, Technical Director of Intelligence at Dragos about the impact of global conflicts on cybersecurity. Rising geopolitical pressure is having...

How Open-Source Intelligence Is Defeating Hamas and Hezbollah

As hostilities and Iranian-funded terrorism against the state of Israel continue, the Israeli Defense Forces has resorted to using intercepted propaganda, known as open-source inte...

Digital Public Infrastructure as Economic Statecraft

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Korea, US hold 1st joint tabletop exercise to counter wartime disinformation

Korea and the United States have held their first joint tabletop exercise aimed at countering foreign disinformation campaigns during wartime, military sources said Sunday. Korea's...

A nation on a hard drive: Inside the rise of digital embassies

Facing cyberattacks, hybrid warfare and military conflict, governments are storing their data outside their borders.

How security leaders can withstand geopolitical turbulence

For many organisations, scenarios that once belonged in crisis exercises now feel uncomfortably plausible, reports F24. Employees might get refused entry at borders, access to crit...

The Bear Necessities: A Look at the Drivers, Dynamics, and Applications of the Pro-Russia Influence Ecosystem

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war...

AI meets geopolitics

OpenAI’s global AI-governance push marks a new chapter of tech geopolitics, innovation, security and rivalry

The Quiet Operational Architecture Behind U.S.-Israel Integration

Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire GenXGirl’s recent article, “Backdoor Alliance With Israel,” does a good job of tracing the policy architecture behind the deepening U.S.-Israel secu...

The Office, the Base, and the Voice: A Rational Analysis of Security Cooperation in Southern Africa

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When Global Conflict Becomes a Cyber Weapon: How Iran Tensions and Other Stressful Events Fuel Social Engineering Attack...

When geopolitical tensions rise, whether due to conflicts like the current one involving Iran or other global flashpoints, many organizations focus on physical security, supply cha...

The data war over Ukraine: blocked satellites, synthetic footage and a record that fights back

Editor’s Note: A satellite connection is restricted. Battlefield footage is assessed as artificial-intelligence-generated. A refinery near Moscow burns again. A disputed bus-strike...

America needs borders online too

In November, X began displaying each account’s country of origin. Unsurprisingly, this caused an uproar. Users rushed to prove that their online enemies were foreign interlopers. M...

Missouri’s Ann Wagner warns of Open Source Intelligence threat

U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo. 2nd District, says the U.S. needs to up its game in using smart technology to guard against both terrorists and hostile governments. During a recent hea...

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Geopolitics of Software Supply Chains

Software ecosystems are strategic infrastructure, yet they remain almost invisible within national security risk assessments. The post Hiding in Plain Sight: The Geopolitics of Sof...

US’s New Military Geography Signals More Than a Name Change

Washington drops “Indo” from Indo-Pacific Command

The Diffusion of Technology Is Changing Warfare

For decades, modern force projection depended on the assumption that rear areas could be secured against most forms of disruption. As a result, forces were built around large bases...

Politicizing Intelligence

CIA officers report being pressured to support preferred policy outcomes.

Social Media Is the New Battleground for Economic Warfare

Global conflicts accelerate cyber threats against UK CNI

Geopolitical tensions are stoking cyber threats to UK critical infrastructure. State actors and ransomware groups are targeting industrial systems. Operators must improve visibilit...

Report: Adversaries Target U.S. Military in War Zones by Using App Location Data

Adversaries of the United States are reportedly using location data to target military forces deployed to war zones, the news coming amid the war with Iran's radical Islamic regime...

Plotting an Attack on Infrastructure Used to Require a Team. Now it Takes a Laptop

New NCITE research shows how AI and open-source geospatial tools are reshaping the threat landscape for critical infrastructure security.