Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 18 Mar 07:
WEEK 18 – 18 Mar 07: PSYOP is not the news unless you are RT I suppose. In Baghdad, Military Information Support Operations (MISO), nee PSYOP, Soldiers work the streets. News at Eleven, After the...
View ArticleWhy the Collective Security Treaty Organization is a pale replica of NATO
I was just explaining the CSTO to a friend and ran across this. </end editorial> Sep 8, 2016 Albert Hayrapetyan CSTO has failed to follow the successful path of NATO because of the different...
View ArticleThe US Army Is About To Deploy One Of The Most Powerful Laser Weapons In...
By RUSS READ Pentagon/Foreign Policy Reporter The U.S. Army is about to make a technological leap as it prepares to field a small, yet ultra-powerful laser weapon system. Lockheed Martin announced it...
View ArticleFive signs of less than universal Russian approbation of Crimean Anschluss
This was actually published yesterday, 19 March 2017. </end editorial> By Paul Goble Today, on the third anniversary of Putin’s Crimean Anschluss, the Russian government is orchestrating...
View ArticleHow Russia adapted KGB ‘active measures’ to cyber operations, Part I
Posted on March 19, 2017 by Brad D. Williams http://fifthdomain.com/2017/03/19/how-russia-adapted-kgb-active-measures-to-cyber-operations-part-i/ This article is Part I of a two-part series previewing...
View ArticleRussia / New Administration Media Ad Hoc – 21 March 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Congratulations to Unian.net for using the proper nomenclature: “the Russian occupation forces…” </end editorial> Russia has had an...
View ArticleViral Conflict: Proposing the Information Warfighting Function
Overall concept, excellent. I agree with his concept of forming an IO basic branch, leaving the functional area of IO behind. I believe the personnel issues will be like military intelligence, there...
View ArticleStrategic Communications and Public Diplomacy “Seen on the Web” March 19, 2017
This is a compilation of news, articles, essays, and reports on strategic communications, Public Diplomacy, public affairs, U.S. government international broadcasting, and information operations. The...
View ArticleWeaponizing Headlines
“Weaponized a fake headline”… After a night of restless sleep, contemplating the limits and capabilities of the laws of physics in theoretical directed energy weapons design, these four words caught my...
View ArticleEvent: MisinfoCon, A Summit on Misinformation, Feb 24–26, at MIT Media Lab &...
By Jeanne Brooks, James Geary, Burt Herman, Jenny 8. Lee, Phillip Smith, and Claire Wardle Misinformation, and increasingly disinformation, is distorting the public’s ability to make sense of the world...
View ArticleAssessing and Evaluating Department of Defense Efforts to Inform, Influence,...
Worked Example by Christopher Paul To achieve key national security objectives, the U.S. government and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must effectively and credibly communicate with a broad range of...
View ArticleThis Is London
THIS IS LONDON. Filed under: Information operations, Information Warfare Tagged: information operations, information warfare
View ArticleCountering Russian Information Warfare: Theoretical And Practical Problems
Today, I was discussing people opposing government-generated propaganda with a colleague and wrote this: I happen to agree with them, it is bad. The bad part is where propaganda is a lie, a...
View ArticleRussia / New Administration Media Ad Hoc 23 March 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. I’m concerned about the propaganda focused on Belarus and the military power building against Ukraine. </end editorial> Russia is the MSM’s...
View ArticleRussia halts cross border movement on border with Ukraine’s Chernihiv region,...
Strangely, no corresponding information of a Ukrainian ‘combat alert’. Gee, mind games anyone? Did somebody just read Peter and the Wolf? Perhaps an old Psychological Warfare manual? If something...
View ArticleRussia Media Ad Hoc – 22 March 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Another day of saturation Russia coverage in the MSM. Major snap amphibious and land assault exercise launched in Crimea....
View ArticleBaghdad Ten Years Ago – 25 Mar 07:
WEEK 19: Al Qaeda terrorists try to block the political process by interfering with voting and attempting assassinations against non-supportive Sunni politicians. Burnt Waffles “It is time for those...
View ArticleRussia / New Administration Media Ad Hoc – 27 March 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Prof Goble’s analysis is as always exactly on target. Pastukhov essay on internal changes in Russia over the last three...
View ArticleStatement During House Hearing on Russian Active Measures
While I applaud the purpose of these hearings, it is clearly apparent, from this statement, that Representative Schiff does not understand Russian Active Measures, does not understand the breadth and...
View ArticleMaster of American Propaganda
How George Creel sold the Great War to America, and America to the world. By Nicholas J. Cull Mar 21 2017 Committee on Public Information poster from 1917 promoting the United States Shipping Board...
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