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... - Cross-posted at Argghhh! Public Affairs and Information Operations are seemingly competing and complementary missions and agendas, ...

Blog entry - Dec 30 2008 - 6:30pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... CBS 60 Minutes, 17 April 2011 Hat tip to Galrahn at Information Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles ... to her deployed husband who used it as a guide during operations). The Irony of this story is that Mortenson's book contains lies ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Washington Post noted that in Mohammed's case they got information but "not all of it reliable." Of course, when you waterboard you ... your first assumption regarding my past, I was involved in operations that resulted in the deaths of human beings. I am proud of my ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... much less how they might be related to problems of complex operations and asymmetric warfare ? MAJ Zweibelson talks of detailed planning ... without much prospect of creating conditions - perfect information and sufficient time to find an optimal solution - under which a ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... analyzing and prescribing manpower for counterinsurgency operations. The data reveals a new ratio and draws conclusions on the ... dared to stand up to despotism was enough. In the modern information age such hubris leads to attacks such as the U.S. suffered on 9/11. ...

Journal Article - Jan 15 2011 - 7:33am - 25 comments

... dealt/are dealing with those issues. Now, with the Information Age, others are rapidly working through political and religious ... in dominating the information domain, conduct influence operations against the US? Our dependence on information systems (in all forms) ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... died on 22 October 2011 in Kandahar when the joint special operations task force to which she was attached triggered an IED. In a press ... individual, group and community relationships, conduct information gathering, female searches and limited tactical operations. ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... Information Operations doesn't do IO by MisoMan Mr. Michael Hastings of ...

Blog entry - Mar 1 2011 - 6:30am - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... were to read the daily reports from our deployed Special Operations Forces, distill key points, and capture them on PowerPoint for the ... old colonial model. What I argue is that in the current information age the tried and true TTP of employing "friendly despots" to ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... it does not involve only being nice to people. So the SF operations Hallinan refers to are an appropriate part of COIN. In fact the information that enables SF operations to take place may have been the fruits ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments