Monthly Archives: August 2008
Spinning Gustav
Does God vote? How well the strategic communications challenge of tomorrow’s land fall is met will decide the election, which will decide who wins the Iraqi and Afghan Campaigns of the Global War On Terror . The Bush Administration must … Continue reading
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Filed under Idea War, Info Warriors, Morale Operations, Old Media, PSYOP
ONCE A MARINE: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
Buy this book! Comes out in October. The Cee-Gar Marine’s Story
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Filed under G-2
Private Military Company Paramilitary Information Support Team
Blackfive has some good stuff about Blackwater that has mostly been OBE. I resuscitated a necropost over there and reproduced it below: The good news is, the usual suspects have missed this thread and we have been spared their inanities. The … Continue reading
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Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Ye Shall Know the Truth
The Truth About Russia in Georgia by Michael Totten. It’s all good, below are some of my favorites: Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the … Continue reading
“Channeling messages through volunteers in internet forums”
British Research, Information and Communication Unit has started a counterprop campaign. Revealed: Britain’s secret propaganda war against al-Qaida
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Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries
Why do Americans Hate the Word Propaganda?
Because the British snookered us into WWI with it, and Wilson’s man Creel continued the scam. You can fool all of the people some of the time, but when the people find out they’ve been had they usually vote the … Continue reading
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Filed under Morale Operations, PSYOP
Irregulars, Militias, Paramilitaries and Russian Schrecklichkeit Truppen
Who were those masked men? Who sent ‘em? Who did they answer to? “Russian troops take a village followed by South Ossetian militias and Chechen and Cossack mercenaries.” The mercenaries and militias then expel civilians, looting property and burning villages … Continue reading
Filed under IW, PSYOP, PSYOP Auxiliaries
Strategic Communication Management Services
Military to select firm for ‘info ops’ initiative in Iraq MNF-I RFP here. counter misinformation spread by hostile parties. Stopping rumors You know. Stuff milblogs and civilian irregular information operators do for free. See also Volunteer Internet Awareness Services
Filed under PSYOP
What Bernard-Henry Levy Saw
And HuffPo posted it. Not a fan of HuffPo. Or their commenters. But they did good. This time. Excerpts of particular interest: The Russians arrived, and in their wake, Cossack and Ossetian gangs pillaged, raped and murdered. As they did … Continue reading
Chinese Cyber Warriors
Click here to watch a 23 minute video about what the Other Side is doing. Real People’s Information War stuff.
Filed under CNA, Info Warriors, PSYOP Auxiliaries
If A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words . . .
. . . then Arkady Babchenko has a photographic magnum opus of Tolstoyian proportions. Click only if you have a strong stomach. Corpses of Georgian soldiers and hideously wounded Ossete brigands. Lots of engineer tape white arm bands, the mark … Continue reading
Why Aren’t WE Doing This?
An Army of Ones and Zeroes How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar. H/T: -the Armorer
Achtung! Kosaken!
I’ve become something of a student of Irregular Warfare since starting this blog. Lately I have been paying close attention to the Russo-Georgian War and reports of Ossete, Chechen and Cossack irregulars. They’ve been following in the wake of the Russian … Continue reading
Apologists in the West
Victor Davis Hanson The Russians have sized up the moral bankruptcy of the Western Left. They know that half-a-million Europeans would turn out to damn their patron the United States for removing a dictator and fostering democracy, but not more … Continue reading
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Russian Dragons
Many links in the comments over at The Belmont Club. Laughing_Wolf says No, It’s Not Good at All Part of what is being done now is to show the Czech’s and others that being an ally doesn’t mean the U.S. … Continue reading
Filed under IW
A Robot Can Do Your Job
Pentagon’s Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission H/T: Chief Wretchard
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Internet Defense Force
The Jews have one. Jewish Activists Hack Anti-Semitic Facebook Group A group calling itself the Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) hacked into a Facebook group called, ”Israel” is not a country!… … Delist it from Facebook as a country!” early Sunday … Continue reading
Filed under CNA, Info Warriors, IW
Afghan tribes will not fit into a modern framework
The Endless War Afghanistan has been for centuries, and remains so today, a nation built on tribalism. The figures differ but the academic consensus is that the Pushtun (aka, Pashtun, Pathan, etc.) are calculated at 42% to 36 % of … Continue reading
Filed under IW, The Forgotten War
