Australia and the United States share an increasing security burden thanks to the growing sophistication of information warfare, according to Jake Wallis, a senior analyst at ASPI, and Katherine Mansted, senior adviser at the ANU’s National Security College.
In a panel discussion last week for ASPI’s masterclass on ‘The US–Australia alliance in a more contested Asia’
, Mansted and Wallis explored the challenges of dealing with a strategic environment in which grey-zone actions, especially involving information, are becoming a permanent feature.
The information warfare experienced by the US and by Australia over the past half-decade has similar characteristics.
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