Recent Posts Tagged With 'Israel'

• Ain' t Dat Be Da' Damnedest Of Thangz (Love this sh*t); We're but IO

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 19:50 in sweden, Israel, 911, information operation, baseline narrative, intelligence community

  Pieces of some puzzle fallin' into place.It is not the family's first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrah's cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, though the men were 20 years ...

• Middle East: Costs of Conflict

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 14:31 in Israel, pdf, baseline narrative, post conflict operations

  The opportunity cost of conflicts in the Middle East since 1991 is 12 trillion dollars, says a new research report [6-page pdf] on the Cost of Conflict in the Middle East by Strategic Foresight Group, a leading Asian think-tank. [related Youtube vide...

• Davos Dustup

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 13:32 in Israel, Turkey, switzerland, media assets

  NYTPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey walked off the stage after an angry exchange with the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, during a panel discussion on Gaza at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, vowing never to return to the annual ga...

• Amuse bouche AQ: GWOT Strategic PSYOP

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 12:39 in Israel, gwot, strategic psychological operations

  An offering from the main GWOT Strategic PSYOP can be detected from this piece in the new Economist:Al-Qaeda's failure to fight for Palestine comes up repeatedly in jihadist internet forums. It also forms part of the latest ideological counter-attack...

• Mindjacking Down Gaza Way

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 11:25 in Israel, psychological warfare, regime change, psychological operations

  Hijacking the airwaves, spreading false news and sowing doubt: Israel and Hamas are pulling out all the stops when it comes to psychological warfare. Lies and deceit are the weapons of choice in the effort to destroy enemy morale.Roughly once every h...

• Jack B Back (Cheap Start): Rejectng COIN Wisdom

  Posted on Saturday January 17th, 2009 at 21:10 in Israel, coin, perception management, regime change

  Given - it's way cheap but it B our lead-in:Some yesterday's WaPo finds our boy prezenting the institutional viewpoint as per usual.Spotted a gem from another yesterday, Rejecting COIN Wisdom (There's a Marc Lynch in here somewhere):Maybe that's just...

• Effwitty Friday

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 13:43 in Israel, gratuity, intelligence community, extraordinary rendition

  Agent Says Israelis Let a Nazi EscapeJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli agents who kidnapped the Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 found the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele but let him get away, one of the operatives said Tuesda...