Monthly Archives: September 2007
Wedges and Mauls
The Global War On Terror is misnamed. Terror is a tactic, not the name of an enemy. And it’s not really global. America is not at war with LTTE terrorists in Sri Lanka or Basque terrorists in Spain. Why can’t … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War, Morale Operations, PSYOP Auxiliaries
The Unorganized Cyber Militia of the United States
Kat is a blogger and a Denizen or infowarrior in Virtual Warlord John Donovan’s castle garrison who has just posted a magnum opus that may well be to Pinch Sulzberger what the Declaration of Independence was to King George III. Future students of … Continue reading
Filed under Info Warriors
Watching The Hitler Channel causes Erectile Dysfunction
Cannoneer is in between contracts, so I have been forced –, I mean I want to watch TV with him, so I watch a lot of stuff that I normally would not watch. History Channel, Military Channel, History Channel International, … Continue reading
This Is My Old Blog
I have been off of Blogspot for a long time, but I like to comment on other Blogspot blogs so reactivated my account. Please come over to Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group and take a look.
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Filed under G-2
Our Military Has to Serve These Political Masters
These Quislings are out in the open, now. They are on record. They do not think General Petraeus deserves the full support of the Senate and they do not condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations
Commies
“Kill a Commie for Mommy” was a tattoo I admired in my youth. I never got the tattoo, but I did devote a significant portion of my young life to the art and science of killing Communist armored vehicles. Did … Continue reading
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Filed under Idea War
Hope, and Resolve
I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down … Continue reading
Filed under Heroes
The United States alone ensures that bin Laden stays a sick man babbling in a cave
Bin Laden’s problem then is not really tiny Israel or global warming or mortgage interest rates, but an all-powerful and free West led by the United States. It alone has the military and economic power to stop radical Islamists. Plus, … Continue reading
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Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
The Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, wittingly or not, put al Qaeda in an almost impossible position
From TigerHawk, via Glenn Reynolds: We invaded and occupied a country in the heart of the Arab Middle East. If al Qaeda had railed against the mere presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia, the invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP
“Ad Triarios Redisse!”
It has come to the triarii. The Triarii were usually the oldest and very experienced of the Roman army, and their job was to defend against disaster as a last resort, or to shock the enemy with a different look … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Let Us Win
“OK, so there was no WMD. The war was run badly by Bush and Rumsfeld. But now the professionals are running it and we’re starting to win. Let us finish the job. You don’t like them, but you respect us. … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War
War, Psychology, and Time
From STRATFOR via House of the Rising sons by way of Infidels Are Cool comes an explanation of why the American domestic target audience is so receptive to enemy strategic communications. . . . time has completely undermined the psychological dimension … Continue reading
Filed under InfoWarriors
People’s Information War
Swedish Meatballs makes me wonder if the Chicoms aren’t reading this blog: It also put forward the concept of a “people’s information war” for the first time, describing this as a form of national non-symmetric warfare, with the people at … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Some Ideologies Are More Sympathetic Than Others
Collectivism, Cultural Marxism, Transnational Progressivism, Post-Modernism, Environmentalism are welcomed much more warmly in one party than in the other. The same can be said for Patriotism, Constitutionalism, Federalism and Capitalism. One party has many members who believe that OUR country … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War
Virtual Cyber Militias Must Run with the Ball OGAs Dropped
Who does strategic counterpropaganda? Who is tasked to minimize and mitigate the effect enemy propaganda has on the will of the American domestic target audience? The military is sure it isn’t their job, which is a damn shame because they … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
C-in-C Meets IO Warlords
Somebody in the White House must have read Blogospheric Resistance. If you have ever commented on one of the blogs listed below, somebody in the White House has probably read what you said, too. The President, War Czar LTG Doug … Continue reading
Filed under Virtual War Lords
Contrarianism Is Creativity for the Untalented
Dennis Miller just said that on O’Reilly, and I just saved it for posterity. You will see this sentence again.
Filed under Idea War
We Have To Share A Country With These People
Owen West impresses me. Read Our New National Divide Nearly six years into the war on terror–which is being fought by less than 30% of the military and less than one-half of 1% of the nation–and the stark irony of … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War
TMI O
Too Many Information Operations to keep up with. CG, MNF-I is doing well with his. MoveOn.org screwed the pooch with theirs. Code Pink could hardly have done any more damage to whatever credibility the anti-war movement had left if they … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War
Cyber Psychological Operations
Tim Thomas, LTC, US Army, Retired, has done extensive research and publishing in the areas of peacekeeping, IO, and PSYOP. He currently serves as a Senior Analyst in the Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft Leavenworth, and has written a fascinating … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP, PSYOP Auxiliaries
