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Mohammed El Fazazi Flipped
Merkel might have done better had she spent some time as a trainee on Wall Street before playing for keeps with the big boys of GM and the Obama posse--could've spared her a bambozzling and a berating smack to the chops. Meanwhile, some other Krauts ...
Abu Yahya 's Strategic PSYOP Pointers - Oh, STFU!
It's kinda ignominious when we are encouraged to take Strategic PSYOP pointers from the likes of this odious dude.Needless to say, all six of the gambits cited here were dreamed up by our side [and hinted at on Swedish Meatballs Confidential] long be...
Legal Considerations of Online PSYOP - Stay Golden
...thought the whole premise of the article below was kinda quaint -- Legal Considerations of Online PSYOP. Haven't they heard that per recent precedent, USG only needs a lackey staff attorney to craft a reliance memo declaring whatever you want to...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Whacked GWOT Strat PSYOP Asset
A spick-and-spanny narrative has the Pakistanis turning against the Taliban. But what else can we have them say? The last few months were really hairy in Swat and various other locales, and it was looking touch and go for our prospects in (the now of...
Chump Change - GWOT Strategic PSYOP
For the attention of the microscopically small brethren and sistren of folks interested, yesterday afternoon GAO released a critique of U.S. Public Diplomacy which touched upon the main GWOT Strategic PSYOP (leaving OGA out of it, as it should be).U....
Swine Before Pearls: A Nastier Ivan Squandered In the Flu
In the nick of time - if but a bit upstaged by that wetback bug brouhaha.[Russian] Andrei recalled that his men had detained a suspect who had several videos of [Chechnyan] militants torturing Russian hostages. One showed him laughing as his comrades...
Amuse bouche AQ: GWOT Strategic PSYOP
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...
New Army Field Manual for Operations, FM 3-0 - Stability Operations
The Army on Monday will unveil an unprecedented doctrine that declares nation-building missions will probably become more important than conventional warfare and defines "fragile states" that breed crime, terrorism and religious and ethnic strife as ...
Combat Studies Institute: On Point II
Yesterday morning Effwit saw in the print edition of the WaPo that the Army's Combat Studies Institute was going to release a nifty new report on the history of the Iraq War dealing with the crucial period from the "Mission Accomplished" milestone up...
Woes of GWOT: Wailing and Wishes
Soon to retire Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, commander of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor, at Fort Riley, Kansas and co-author of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual weighs in on the woes of GWOT at WaPo. The Lt. Col. fields a wish list ...
DNI's 2008 Threat Assessment (version: Baby Talk)
A week of windy and format-challenged posts it would seem.The Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (unclassified version) [47-pages pdf} was released earlier this week. Baby...
War Nerd's USS Sitting Duck
Today I'm going to talk about war games. Which reminds me: my computer's messed up so I'm writing this column from what has got to be the darkest, smelliest internet cafe in Fresno, not like there are a lot to choose from. I seem to be the only round...
Reinventing The Wheel
Robert Satloff may be surprised to discover that he is about six years behind the power curve with this idea. And that the plan is not merely theoretical.We have -- from time to time -- referred here to various aspects of the program as being part of...
German PSYOP: Andi
Germany has unveiled a new initiative as part of the West's counter-Jihadist PSYOP, one aimed at disrupting the indoctrination of young Muslim immigrants.Creativity is often found in the most unlikely places. Take, for example, a couple of German sta...
Another Tactful Hint
Discussions of U.S. government Strategic Communications in journals and various symposia usually devote earnest attention to the problematic shortcomings of our information campaigns in the operational environment in Iraq and Afghanistan.The finger o...
Madrassa Education Reform Program as Part of GWOT Strategic PSYOP
Today the Pakistan parliament -- itself installed in a corrupt 2002 election -- voted to keep Gen Pervez Musharraf as president.We need not get into the merits here of Gen. Musharraf (of which there are few), or debate the opinion of some experts who...
Irregular Warfare Joint Operating Concept
The Combined Arms Research Library yesterday released the DOD Irregular Warfare Joint Operating Concept (100-page pdf).Influencing foreign governments and populations is a complex and inherently political activity. This Joint Operating Concept (JOC)...
The "Genocide Games" PSYOP and the Burma Crisis
The "Genocide Games" PSYOP -- which for months has concentrated on exploiting China's desire not to allow international political considerations (their support for the Sudanese government, the repression in Tibet, etc.) adversely effect their own pro...
A Farewell to Smith-Mundt - A Matter of Will
An era of psychological warfare conducted not so much upon the enemy but upon our own troops by self, so as to manufacture sufficient deadly contempt for the enemy, has been systematically with us since WW2. Might an abolition of Smith-Mundt open t...
Fine Narrative Emerging
Israel -- whose role per omission or commission -- in the pre-war Iraq WMD "intelligence failure" has never been publicly revealed, is playing a helpful part in the PSYOP du jour.Israel's decision to attack Syria on Sept. 6, bombing a suspected nucle...
Steven Aftergood - Psychological Operations Test Military Aptitude
Psychological operations (PSYOP) -- military programs that seek to influence the attitudes and shape the behavior of a target audience -- have the potential to increase the effectiveness of the armed forces they support while minimizing violent confl...
No Post-Petraeus Bounce
Assessing the effectiveness of an information operation is an important part of the IO process.Polling -- when conditions permit -- is considered to be a very good Measure of Effectiveness (MOE) in the Info Op biz.The IO Working Group that managed th...
Pushing Iran's Buttons
A fascinating take on a couple of key aspects of the anti-Iran Info Op, specifically the loudly trumpeted claims that Iran, per se, is engaged in the production of EFPs in Iraq and that the Quds Force is training Iraqi Shi'ite militias:US and British...
"Hysteria about the enemy as a patriotic duty"
An excerpt from the next installment of Roger Morris' lengthy series on Robert Gates and the Cold War.1976 would offer the funeral procession that signaled the arrival of a new right-wing order and, with it, Gates' further rise. That March, as part o...
Target Iran: Cuddly Info Ops & Furry Mullahs
Here's a recent Financial Times article that rather hebetudinously presents some of the information operations in the form of 'pro-democracy' assets that the U.S. has deployed to rattle the cages of those pesky Mullahs de Tehran, a subject Effwit pre...
NIC Sponsors Global Disease Threat Wiki
At the invitation of the National Intelligence Council, a group of graduate students attending Mercyhurst College's Institute for Intelligence Studies has used their Strategic Intelligence class project to support and supplement the council's work on...
Some Meatballs For Once
An awe inspiring graphic accompanying an article bristling with deeply embedded pearls of great price - the NYT article was obviously begging to be violently excerpted and quotationized to serve the murky agendas of SMC. So here you go, for once som...
