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...
View ArticleAsymmetric 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...
View ArticleMILNEWS.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”...
View ArticleStrategic 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleFacebook 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...
View ArticleRussia / 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleDebunking: 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...
View ArticleCountering 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,”...
View ArticleZuckerberg 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...
View ArticleBaghdad 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,...
View ArticleRussia’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...
View ArticleMILNEWS.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...
View ArticleFootage 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...
View ArticleRussia / 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...
View ArticleDealing 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:...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleRussia 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...
View ArticleHow 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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