Every Brigade Combat Team Needs an Information Operations Officer
Identifying and influencing the local population favorably enables time and space to conduct military operations.
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No More Fun and Games: How China’s Acquisition of U.S. Media Entities Threatens America’s National Security
China’s inroads to the U.S. entertainment industry merit closer examination given their implications for information warfare.
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The Great Enabler: Capitalizing Upon Operations in the Information Environment
By employing a more information-centric approach as a cornerstone of our operations, we can ultimately win faster and more efficiently.
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Joint Regional Experts: We Can Do Better
If success was measured by how often a subject is mentioned or written about the U.S. military would surely be a smart culture-savvy force to be reckoned with.
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Countering the Daesh Narrative
The United States is losing the information war against Daesh. Communication professionals must better understand the Daesh narrative, how it is constructed and promulgated.
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Calculated Communications in a Concave World
The “info-agile” world is not myth. It is reality, and any institution concerned with advancing truth must deal comprehensively with the manipulative nature of information.
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Big Data, Local Advantage: Why ‘Economic Media’ Networks Matter
The US can enable novel gains in the information environment by collecting on, operating in, and collaborating through indigenously produced economic media.
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Guerilla IO: The SFAT Advantage
Enabling our partners to conduct their own IO. There is no other way to get the message across the cultural divide.
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Social Banditry and the Public Persona of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
Peter J. Munson
Mon, 04/29/2013 - 3:30am
This article reviews nine key insights into social banditry originally described by Eric Hobsbawm and examines their applicability regarding Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. Because some of Mexico’s organized crime leaders aim to be viewed as social bandits, and visit Guatemala and the Mexico-Guatemala border region to evade authorities, the article focuses on particularities of those culture zones in the potential application of three primary strategies of information operations to contest a social bandit’s prestige: emphasizing distance between the social bandit and the local poor, portraying collusion of the social bandit with local authorities and opposition to federal authorities, and emphasizing closeness between federal power and the local poor. A criminal organization leader who desires the prestige of social banditry would have cause to oppose each strategy. The analysis predicts that the first two strategies are more realistic, potentially more important strategically, and are more likely to become intensely contested through Information Operations, within culture areas of Guatemala and the Mexico-Guatemala border region.
Narrative Landmines
The explosive effects of rumors in Syria and insurgenceis around the world.