Monthly Archives: November 2007
What the SecDef Didn’t Call For, But Should Have
MountainRunner, writing under his meatspace name in SWJ, explains what SECDEF was trying to do last Monday, and what my .mil buddy was seeking our input on a week ago. Hmmmm. You don’t think that Regular sought out the opinions … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
The Taliban Have a Plan
From Strategy Page: But the Taliban have a plan for getting rid of the smart bombs, and it depends a lot on foreign journalists. These folks are always looking for an “exciting” story, and nothing is more exciting than “atrocities” … Continue reading
Filed under Old Media, The Forgotten War
SECDEF Strategically Communicates His Embarrassment
Civilian Irregular Information Operators in Kansas alerted me to this speech by Secretary Gates yesterday: The way you institutionalize these capabilities is probably not to recreate or repopulate instutions of the past such as USAID or USIA. On the other … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War
The nature of IW requires the US Government to achieve the level of unified action necessary to integrate all available instruments of national power to address irregular threats
Well, we’re screwed then. Ran across that in Irregular Warfare (IW) Joint Operation Concept (JOC) Version 1.0, which I found at the USMC Center for Irregular Warfare that SWJED found for me. What they’re talking about requires buy-in from the “Loyal … Continue reading
The Regulars’ RFI On USIA
Our readership here is small, but high quality. We don’t get many hits, but the hits we do get come from some interesting places. We are being read by elements in the .mil, and their feed back is gratifying. One of … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Civilian Irregular Cyber Scout Helps ID Bilal Hussein
I love it when a plan comes together. Distributed, non-hierachical, unconventional pajamahadeen strike again. UPDATE: Holy crap, The Jawa Report credited with Bilal Hussein prosecution?!?! A reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, informs me that The Jawa Report had something … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations, Old Media, PSYOP Auxiliaries
Today’s conflicts are not only won on the battlefield, but through the use of websites and blogs, over the airwaves and on the front pages of our newspapers.
I didn’t hate Donald Rumsfeld. This is a time in which warfare is being waged in the realms of space and cyberspace. In China, the recent test of an anti-satellite missile has shown that our network of satellites could be … Continue reading
Filed under CND, IA, Idea War, Info Warriors
Fred Thompson on National Will
Fred Thompson discusses national will with Bob Owens and Roger L. Simon in this video linked here. For the benefit of readers who can’t listen to video in their cubicle, here’s a transcript: Bob Owens: We just caught part of your speech. … Continue reading
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Filed under Idea War
A Telling Question Puts Things into Perspective
From The New Editor via Instapundit: On PBS’ Washington Week in Review Friday night, New York Times’ reporter David Sanger asked Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty what the relative dearth of discussion on Iraq during Thursday’s Democratic Party presidential debate said … Continue reading
They’re Talking Like They’re Beginning to Get It
Gleaned this from Jedburgh at SWJ: We live in a world of citizen journalists, where every action or operation is witnessed, taped and reported, individual actions are amplified, and organizations face the challenge of strategic implication. In today’s flat world, a … Continue reading
Filed under Info Warriors, PSYOP Auxiliaries
Civilian Irregular Counterpropagandists Pushing Back
I know this thanks to Mrs. Greyhawk, one of the IO Warlords whose gravitational pull often captures me. Never heard of Jim Wrenn before today, but he’s an outstanding counterpropagandist: You know that in every war, propaganda plays a vital role in … Continue reading
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Slimed Battle Space
Back when I owed obedience to a peanut farmer and tanks had piston engines, a class of butter bars and I spent the night in a foggy valley with our protective masks on, because the OPFOR had set off smoke pots … Continue reading
Anybody who questions Our Patriotism is a NAZI
Just as there are counter measures for electronic warfare, and counter-counter measures, propagandists can anticipate likely responses of counterpropagandists and conduct counter-counterpropaganda. I stumbled upon some counter-counterpropaganda that uses the counterpropaganda technique of forestalling to poison the well and kill the … Continue reading
The Weaponization of Perversion
Secret History: Sex Bomb Verrrry interesting, and very applicable to what is going on in our culture today. Never could figure out how to get LiveLeak embedded on this page, but the links below will take you there. YouTube and … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP
A troubling predisposition on the part of the press to believe the worst about those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan
Slandering the American Soldier An American media tradition. By Mackubin Thomas Owens Death to the Drive By Media! Long Live blogs and talk radio! Seriously, dissing the troops can no longer be tolerated. It must stop, and it will stop, … Continue reading
Filed under Old Media
Sappers, Miners, and Underminers
I was a kid in when I first heard about “sappers.” They were the little guys slinging satchel charges and blowing holes in the perimeter wire and bunkers. I was a big Combat! fan and I knew what satchel charges were, and … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations
Gotta Mission For Ya
supporting the 18 year old with the rifle Click here Read / Observe Orient Decide Act
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Lending Dignity to what would otherwise be a Vulgar Brawl
Great pics here, pay particular attention to 7 of 90. Remember. That’s your mission for today.
Filed under About
We OWE Them Remembrance
Battlefield memorial defaced – Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument in Indiana, November 9, 2007 Local Veteran Fed Up With Memorial Vandalism – Veterans War Memorial at Sacramento’s Capitol Park (H/T Wake up America) — Sep 3, 2007 Vietnam Veterans Memorial defaced - Andover MA, September … Continue reading
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Filed under Idea War
We may no longer have the morale and legal will to fight a shadowy and adaptive enemy
“We”, the collective “we”, as in the American people as a whole, allow this. Those of us who are at the mall and those of us whose default position makes our warriors baby killers until proven innocent are paralyzing our leaders with lawfare. … Continue reading
Filed under Lawfare
