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Chair: Dr David Gioe, British Academy Global Professor and Visiting Professor of Intelligence and International Security in the Department of War Studies. Dr Gioe's research is supported by the British Academy’s Global Professorships Programme 2020.
Speaker: Paul Stockton, Senior Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Discussants:
Major Joseph Littell is a Research Scientist at the United States Army Cyber Institute at West Point
Captain Maggie Smith, Research Scientist and Assistant Professor at the United States Army Cyber Institute and Department of Social Sciences at West Point
A Cyber Security Research Group event in partnership with the Army Cyber Institute at West Point
For thousands of years, combatants have spread falsehoods to help achieve victory. Many of their efforts failed or backfired. However, with the rise of social media and sophisticated technologies to exploit it, attackers have potent new means of conducting information operations (IOs) to shape their victims’ perceptions and coerce them to yield in future crises.
This event will be chaired by David Gioe, Visiting Professor of Intelligence and International Security in the Department of War Studies. Dr Gioe will invite Dr Stockton to provide an overview of his paper, which will be followed by remarks and discussion from Major Littell. We will then open up the floor to audience questions for Dr Stockton. Attendees can familiarize themselves with Dr Stockton's paper in advance of the event.
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Paul Stockton is a Senior Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs from May 2009 until January 2013. Prior to being confirmed as assistant secretary, Dr Stockton served as a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, associate provost of the Naval Postgraduate School, and director of the school’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Dr Stockton holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from Dartmouth College.
Major Joseph Littell is a Psychological Operations officer and Research Scientist at the United States Army Cyber Institute at West Point, where he also co-teaches the Academy's signature elective on the history of intelligence and cyber operations. Maj Littell has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and has published research concerning the problem of Deepfakes. He earned an MS in Data Science from Duke University.
Captain Maggie Smith, PhD is a Research Scientist and Assistant Professor at the United States Army Cyber Institute and Department of Social Sciences at West Point, where she teaches Cyber Policy, Strategy, and Operations and an elective she developed, Politics and the Internet. Capt. Smith is a U.S. Army Cyber Officer and is also a Research Affiliate at the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and Affiliated Faculty at the Modern War Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Public Policy at George Washington University.