Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 22 APR 07: DITY Info War
WEEK 23: Don’t trust anyone to tell the whole story? Start with yourself. Do It Yourself Information War “We don’t need another hero We don’t need to know the way home All we want is life beyond the...
View ArticleKremlin kickstarts Navalny smear campaign
Russian opposition politician is seen as an increasingly serious challenger to Putin APRIL 22, 2017 by: Kathrin Hille in Krasnoyarsk When Kremlin officials are asked about Alexei Navalny, they like to...
View ArticleLouise Mensch, Joseph Bernstein, and Russian Agents
Just in case you didn’t turn on your computer since Friday of this past week, there is a little storm brewing around Louise Mensch and Joe Bernstein of Buzzfeed. Louise Mensch, in case you didn’t know,...
View ArticleRussia Supplies Surplus Equipment and Active Duty Russian Military to LPR and...
A forthcoming article establishes a connection between Vladislav Surkov and the Russian Invasion of East Ukraine (I can’t bring myself to call it a hybrid war). The article at Russia Funds and Manages...
View ArticleRussia Runs LPR and DNR in Donbass, Ukraine
This article establishes a connection between Vladislav Surkov, Personal Advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Invasion of East Ukraine (I can’t bring myself to call it a hybrid...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Media Update – 25 April 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> France is dominating MSM traffic, especially Russian hacking of the Macron campaign, and Russian media speculating on how...
View ArticleInformation Operations and Facebook
Information Operations and Facebook By Jen Weedon, William Nuland and Alex Stamos April 27, 2017 Version 1.0 Introduction Civic engagement today takes place in a rapidly evolving information ecosystem....
View ArticleFacebook says it will crack down on government-led misinformation campaigns
by Nick Statt@nickstatt Apr 27, 2017, 1:15 pm EDT Facebook’s newest measure to combat disinformation and misuse of its services is a push to rid the social network of malicious, potentially...
View Article“Black and Blue Journalism” Hurting America
Almost everybody who attended public schools in the United States learned about William Randolph Hearst and Yellow Journalism. Yellow Journalism: journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude...
View ArticleBoars Are No Longer Haram For ISIS
Three ISIS members are now dead because of boars attacking and three ISIS members being killed. Boars must no longer be haram. “It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit...
View ArticleCzech Team Wins Cyber Defence Exercise Locked Shields 2017
Czech Team Wins Cyber Defence Exercise Locked Shields 2017 The team from Czech Republic wins the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2017. Estonian...
View ArticleTurkish ships return to base after rescuing crew of the Russian Intelligence...
Turkish coastguard and navy ships return to their base after rescuing 78 crew members of a Russian navy intelligence vessel that sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. The wreck of the Liman lies at a...
View ArticleStrategic Communications and Public Diplomacy “Seen on the Web”
April 23, 2017 Seen on the Web 1937-2002 This is a compilation of news, articles, essays, and reports on strategic communications, Public Diplomacy, public affairs, U.S. government international...
View ArticleMILNEWS.ca Highlights – April 28, 2017
by milnews.ca #CANvsISIL DND’s latest on Operation IMPACT Everyone Else Vs. ISIL “The Kurds Can Fight: Now They Need to Govern” “German soldier posing as Syrian refugee arrested for ‘planning attack’ “...
View ArticleMistake: Conflating Cyber With Influence
Government Computer News, now known as GCN, published a disturbing headline today which reflects a common misperception among people specializing in “cyber”. Cyber attacks 10 years on: from disruption...
View ArticlePUTIN’S DILEMMA: FINDING ENOUGH TROOPS TO FIGHT HIS WARS
BY VALENTYN BADRAK, LADA ROSLYCKY, MYKHAILO SAMUS AND VOLODYMYR KOPCHAK ON 4/28/17 AT 12:10 AM This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site. Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine and...
View ArticleBaghdad Ten Years Ago – 29 APR 07: Patchwork
WEEK 24: Messaging isn’t perfect nor is it always consistent. Analyze any US political campaign and you’ll see differences between a national TV ad and the ground game talking points. Conventional...
View ArticleKomsomolskaya Pravda, Russia Today Leading Outlets for Anti-Semitic and...
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. [Previously there were] a number of ugly anti-Semitic events during the Russian Novorossiya campaign, that simply did not look genuine,...
View ArticleCyber only a small component of information operations, official says
By: Mark Pomerleau Source Link While a major focus in the latest influence operation involving the 2016 election, cyber is only one small part of information warfare and information operations,...
View ArticleThe Army just released these haunting images taken moments before a combat...
Combat Camera personnel often do not get a fair shake, they produce the most searing images of combat, of operations, of anything military. This soldier died to take a picture of the explosion that...
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