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Russia / Strategy Media Update (315) – 24 September 2017

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russians may be rehearsing an amphibious operation against Iceland, while Zapad 2017 continues to be discussed – Western...

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Asymmetric Warfare Group Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook

Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook Page Count: 68 pages Date: December 2016 Restriction: For Official Use Only Originating Organization: U.S. Army, Asymmetric Warfare Group File Type: pdf File...

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MILNEWS.ca Highlights – September 25, 2017

Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight #CANvsISIL “Fighting ISIS: Why Canadians join Kurdish forces in Syria” DND’s latest on Operation IMPACT “Peshmerga work with Hashd for southern advance into Hawija”...

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Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy “Seen on the Web” (#86) –...

Directive Approved by the President for the Guidance of the United States Information Agency, October 28, 1953 – – – – – – This is a compilation of news, articles, essays, and reports on strategic...

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How the West can defeat the Kremlin’s lies

Seldom am I gobsmacked (I love that British expression) by an article, especially one about Russian propaganda. I mean, how many ways can you describe what is being flung in our general direction and...

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Facebook reportedly discovered it had been infiltrated by Russian government...

Natasha Bertrand Sep. 24, 2017, 8:47 PM Members of a hacking group connected to Russia’s military intelligence unit, the GRU, began creating fake Facebook accounts to amplify stolen emails as early as...

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Russia / Strategy Media Update (316) – 25 September 2017

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russians object to Canada supplying weapons to Ukraine, and object to veto limited rule change in UN, while UN Donbas...

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On the system of information confrontation in Russia

This opinion piece, by Dr. Igor Panarin, is both interesting and noteworthy. This was published in February 2017, he made the following comments today. The information pressure on Russia will...

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Debunking: A Meta-Analysis of the Psychological Efficacy of Messages...

Man-pui Sally Chan, Christopher R. Jones, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, … First Published September 12, 2017 Research Article Download PDF Article information  Abstract This meta-analysis investigated the...

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Countering misinformation and correcting “fake news”

Published 25 September 2017 It is no use simply telling people they have their facts wrong. To be more effective at correcting misinformation in news accounts and intentionally misleading “fake news,”...

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Zuckerberg Brushed Off Obama’s Private Warnings About About Facebook

This seems to be the best overview of the current state of the Facebook situation.  As a Facebook user who was overwhelmed with obvious fake news of Russian origin before the 2016 election, I cannot...

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Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 23 Sep 07

WEEK 45: Military often refer to long deployments as one Groundhog Day after another like the Bill Murray movie. Some days I felt like I was caught in a vicious information do-loop. P is for Perfect,...

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Russia’s Censors Eye Facebook Ban in 2018

All is not as the headline implies.  If that is all you read, you’re probably missing the point of the whole story.  This story has nothing to do with the Facebook ad controversy swirling around the US...

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MILNEWS.ca Highlights – September 26, 2017

Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight #CANvsISIL/The Kurds “Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to comment on a Kurdistan’s independence referendum, saying he appreciated that other countries...

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Footage Of Recent Iranian Missile Launch Is Fake

Busted. PressTV, Iran’s official state television, published a YouTube video allegedly showing a ballistic missile test.  Except it never happened.  The footage shown is from January 2017.  PressTV...

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Russia / Strategy Media Update (317) – 26 September 2017

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. I was completely blown away by the amount of imagery available that clearly shows North Korean air defenses.  At one point, when the Sturmgewehr...

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Dealing With Fake News, Reality, and The Truth On Facebook

Someone asked a question today on Facebook and I answered.  I figured if I can help one or two people per day, I’m a happy man. I decided to share my answer in this blog. The Facebook user’s question:...

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Why Twitter’s double-sized tweets will be a really big deal

Doubling tweets from 140 to 280 characters will change Twitter for the better for most users. By Steve Ranger | September 27, 2017 — 11:23 GMT (04:23 PDT) | Topic: Innovation Journalists like me love...

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Russia Today and Hungary

Russia is building its presence throughout the world, hoping to ‘sell’ Russia.  I’m surprised that RT did not fund such an effort in Hungary in 2014, when their budget increased significantly.   It’s...

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How Russia keeps exploiting anti-black racism in the U.S.

Please don’t forget the three goals of Russian Information Warfare. Sow divisiveness in the West, especially in the US and the UK Promote chaos in the West, especially in the US and the UK Promote...

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