The Big Bash: Takeaways from the Third India-Australia Summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Australia for the third India–Australia Summit delivered a raft of announcements across defence, energy, trade and technology. Yet the real story lies not in the number of agreements signed, but in what they reveal about the trajectory of the relationship. For years, India and Australia have spoken of […]
Weaponising Openness: OSINT Across Conventional, Grey Zone and Cognitive Operations
Introduction The term Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is used (and abused) widely today. Scores of individuals profess to be ‘OSINT experts’ on social media, and post a combination of technical and geo-located information on certain military platforms or formations along with their subjective opinion. Analyses by ‘OSINT communities’ on the Web frequently enter policy- and decision-making […]