Monthly Archives: December 2007
Civilian Irregular Counterpropagandists Bust Iranians and Rub Their Noses in it
I love this! There are a bunch of people doing good things out there. This also serves as a lesson for good guys. Be careful what use you make of hotlinked images. The People’s Cube PWNS Iranian Media Iranian Press … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP
Facilitating Ideological War
The constant portrayal of government agencies as being more villainous than terrorists only serves to facilitate the ideological war being waged by terrorists. The fact of the matter is the terrorists are heinous villains. There have been few if any … Continue reading
Hurting morale
From Inside the Ring: Marine Corps Cpl. David Goldich, a University of Virginia graduate who spent two tours of duty in Iraq, says Democratic attacks on the war undermined troop morale. Cpl. Goldich, who returned from Anbar province in November … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations
Better Late Than Never
.gov Marching into Cyberspace not so much like Blucher at Waterloo as Crockett at the Alamo.
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Filed under CND
Somebody Needs to Take Down Wikileaks
And the sources of the leaks need to be broken of their bad habits in a painfully public way pour encourager les autres. But since I have already seen the document, I may as well share the unclassified portion with … Continue reading
Filed under G-2
The Terrorists’ Tet
COL Bay doesn’t want you to fall for it again. You fell for it hook, line and sinker last time, unless you weren’t around back then or were too young to pay attention, in which case your parents and grandparents … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations, Old Media, PSYOP
Concerned Netizens for Internal Defense and Development
You’ve heard of the Concerned Local Citizens of Iraq. Most of you have heard of Foreign Internal Defense. Some of you have heard of Internal Defense and Development. Are there analogous equivalents to these meat space terms in cyber space? Let’s … Continue reading
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Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Christmas In The Rear
It’s been three years since I was home for the Holidays. Soldiers dance in Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, during Mark Wills’ performance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Reeba Critser. I was at that show. . . . . KAF … Continue reading
Filed under About
Plausibly Deniable Auxiliaries Could Have Handled That
PurpleSlog turned me on to Wikileaks, an uncensorable system for untracable mass document leaking, founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and startup company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. Well, isn’t that precious. Perusing the site I … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Non-kinetic Decapitation
“A fish rots from the head,” the BDS-afflicted never tire of telling us. President George W. Bush has been the recipient of the most concerted, hate-filled, propaganda campaign ever launched against a sitting President. Washington’s bureaucracy has aided and abetted … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations
IO Doctrine for Dummies
FM 3-0 : 7. Dealing with information is hard. The bad people don’t play by the rules and they lie… a lot. One screw-up on our part and all the not so bad people get all upset because the bad … Continue reading
Commanders and political leaders once devoted themselves to winning wars. Today they concentrate their efforts on avoiding criminal indictments.
The triumph of legal defeatism. Are we less overlawyered than the IDF? H/T: Chief Reynolds
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Filed under Lawfare
Untraceable
Saw Charlie Wilson’s War. Loved it. Go see it, or get the boot leg DVD at your FOB’s Hajji Mart. But before it came on I saw a trailer for Untraceable. I had never heard of this flick until this … Continue reading
Filed under G-2
CTC Sentinel
Take a look. I liked Countering Terrorist Use of the Web as a Weapon H/T: The Jawa Report
Filed under Info Warriors
School of the Counterpropagandist — What Is Propaganda?
Meatball 1 finds good stuff, like Finding Weakness in Jihadist Propaganda by MAJOR Timothy R. King, all of which you should read. It’s a 58-page .pdf, so before anybody’s eyes glaze over, let’s focus on MAJ King’s first chapter: WHAT … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP, PSYOP Auxiliaries
Achmed the Dead Terrorist
LMAO! NSFW! 10 minutes of amusement for counterterrorists with their own internet in their hooch. YouTube is kinda new to me because I spent a lot of time in places without enough bandwidth to play it, but Civilian Irregular Information … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
We ain’t as good as we once was
We got a few years on us now. But there was a time . . . Toby Keith never came to TQ when I was there.
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Filed under Morale Operations
Technological Mental Fornication
From Strategy Page: LRAD is basically a focused beam of sound. Originally, it was designed to emit a very loud sound. Anyone whose head was touched by this beam, heard a painfully loud sound. Anyone standing next to them … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP
Whoever is able to make you believe in absurdities will also be able to make you commit atrocities
If this story is not true, then it is an excellent example of propaganda. If it is true, and my experiences with the TSA and the security industry in general cause me to give it more credence than others might, … Continue reading
Filed under Morale Operations
“Taking up for the little guy” is why we suck at Asymmetric Warfare
Half of an asymmetric enemy’s psychological warfare objective was already achieved long before that enemy thought about warring on us. Reflexive opposition to power and automatic support for the underdog — even when those underdogs fly planes into buildings, bury … Continue reading
