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IGI Global eBooks, Jan 18, 2011

Defence Today, vol. 9, no. 2 (2011), p. 2-6<br>Copyright. Carlo Kopp

This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the United States Navy and... more This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the United States Navy and Defence Department websites, past Defence Today articles, the NCW101 textbook, and Wikipedia. The long delayed JLENS tethered Over-The-Horizon radar was intended to provide US Army Patriot batteries, and US Navy warships defending beachheads, with an affordable capability to detect and attack cruise missiles. JLENS was cancelled in recent budgetary cuts.

Iraqi Hardened Aircraft Shelter at Balad. Revetments are irrelevant in the era of PGMs. Global pr... more Iraqi Hardened Aircraft Shelter at Balad. Revetments are irrelevant in the era of PGMs. Global proliferation of weapons such as cruise missiles and smart bombs has fundamentally changed the operational environment.

This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the United States Navy and... more This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the United States Navy and Defence Department websites, the Australian Defence Organisation website, past Defence Today articles, and Wikipedia. Australia's planned fleet of five KC-30A tankers will not be sufficient in numbers to support counter-air and maritime strike operations across the air-sea gap and Australia's sea lanes.

This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the Xinhua and other Chine... more This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the Xinhua and other Chinese websites, past Defence Today articles, the APA website and Wikipedia. The J-15 Flanker D is a reverse engineered Russian Su-27K/Su-33, likely using Chinese systems developed for the J-11B Flanker.

Virginia class SSN USS Washington displaying its propulsor system. Prof Ross Babbage recently pro... more Virginia class SSN USS Washington displaying its propulsor system. Prof Ross Babbage recently proposed that Australia acquire this state of the art boat.

IGI Global eBooks, Jan 18, 2011

Defence Today, vol. 9, no. 2 (2011), p. 2-6<br>Copyright. Carlo Kopp

This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the United States Navy and... more This article was compiled wholly from public domain sources, including the United States Navy and Defence Department websites, the Australian Defence Organisation website, past Defence Today articles, and Wikipedia. Australia's planned fleet of five KC-30A tankers will not be sufficient in numbers to support counter-air and maritime strike operations across the air-sea gap and Australia's sea lanes.

Modelling Deception, 2020

The contemporary “Deception Pandemic” in public discourse is the result of the confluence of a nu... more The contemporary “Deception Pandemic” in public discourse is the result of the confluence of a number of cultural / social trends and Moore’s Law driven growth in the digital technology base. Victims of this Pandemic often exist in “alternate [cognitive] realities”. In many ways the Pandemic emulates historical patterns seen with Gutenberg’s printing press, but many orders of magnitude faster. Most of the underlying mechanisms are well understood, some less so. Overcoming the Deception Pandemic will not be easy due to the “information economy”, where deceptive content is too frequently very profitable, wilful behaviour by victims of deception, who often prefer fantasy to fact, and the popularity of many of these deceptions in politics makes them difficult to defeat. This seminar surveys established approaches and details information theoretic modelling approaches for deception with potential applications in AI, ML and cybersecurity.

Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Groupthink, 2016

Seminar on the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Groupthink

Modelling Deception, 2020

Seminar on Deception Modelling using Information Theory

Understanding the Deception Pandemic, 2018

500 years ago Gutenberg’s printing press played a key role in the Reformation, employed to print ... more 500 years ago Gutenberg’s printing press played a key role in the Reformation, employed to print large numbers of “Reformation Pamphlets”, i.e. propaganda to promote Church reform. This is an important case study – changing means of mass distribution of information were first exploited for political and social purposes, reflecting the cultural foci of that period. The use of digital media for the mass distribution of political and commercial propaganda, “fake news”, “clickbait” and every other form of dis/mis-information follows much the same pattern today, but with contemporary cultural foci. The pressnetation surveys the contemporary pandemic of deceptions in digital media.

Seminar providing an introduction to the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Groupthink

Monash Lens, 2020

There are striking parallels between biological and digital pandemics. The fake news deluge we no... more There are striking parallels between biological and digital pandemics. The fake news deluge we now see regarding the coronavirus fits any reasonable definition of a pandemic, and if enough fake news consumers act upon these false beliefs, it has the potential to be just as lethal, as the recent example of chloroquine shows. Read more at Monash Lens.