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@GCHQ is actively competing in the grey zone in response to vaccine disinformation propagated by state actors, according to @thetimes (1/8) https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1325752690375319559
This means that the UK has established thresholds for response to the grey zone activities of a strategic competitor like 
, which is seeding the information domain with propaganda designed to discredit competitors to the quick-to-market vaccine (2/8)
, which is seeding the information domain with propaganda designed to discredit competitors to the quick-to-market vaccine (2/8)
The UK's @DefenceHQ outlined its willingness to contest the grey zone in late September with the launch of its Integrated Operating Concept (and drew on @ASPI_ICPC's research in articulating the challenge of responding to political warfare) (3/8) https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1311347923406422018?s=20
Our @ASPI_ICPC research on COVID-19 disinformation has highlighted how propaganda has sought to take strategic opportunities from the pandemic and is seeping into 
anti-vax and conspiracy-themed social media groups (4/8) https://www.aspi.org.au/report/covid-19-disinformation
propaganda has sought to take strategic opportunities from the pandemic and is seeping into anti-vax and conspiracy-themed social media groups (4/8) https://www.aspi.org.au/report/covid-19-disinformation
And an investigation by @thetimes revealed the planning of a disinformation campaign designed to discredit the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine in key potential markets for the vaccine (5/8) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fake-news-factories-churning-out-lies-over-monkey-vaccine-qhhmxt2g5
vaccine (5/8) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fake-news-factories-churning-out-lies-over-monkey-vaccine-qhhmxt2g5
@DefenceHQ's Integrated Operating Concept and US Cyber Command's 'Defend Forward' posture offer models of how to engage and compete in the grey zone (6/8) https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-25/cybersecurity
The Defence 2020 Strategic Update notes that too needs to compete with activities in the grey-zone in order to shape the strategic environment in ways that favour our interests (7/8) https://www.defence.gov.au/strategicupdate-2020/
too needs to compete with activities in the grey-zone in order to shape the strategic environment in ways that favour our interests (7/8) https://www.defence.gov.au/strategicupdate-2020/
Grey-zone competition will require that we leverage the full spectrum of 's national power - diplomatic, informational, military and economic - in order to counter 
's coercive diplomacy, disinformation and cyber espionage (H/T @Ben_G_Scott) (8/8) https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/australia-must-enter-grey-zone-counter-threats-future
's national power - diplomatic, informational, military and economic - in order to counter 's coercive diplomacy, disinformation and cyber espionage (H/T @Ben_G_Scott) (8/8) https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/australia-must-enter-grey-zone-counter-threats-future
