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PD In Uniform
A new article in American Diplomacy, the non-profit journal published in association with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and edited by yours truly, "Public Diplomacy in Uniform"...
View ArticleHouse Appropriators Cut Spending on Information Operations
In a move that Walter Pincus reads as continuing distrust of military involvement in America's international communication efforts, the House Appropriations Committee has voted to cut about $125...
View ArticleSix Degrees of Separation: Now 4.7 Degrees of Proximity
Social media is a lot like the weather: everyone talks about it, but very few are doing anything about it. The news that social science researchers have determined that the distance between friends...
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Quotable: Robert Reilly on Public Diplomacy and Information Operations (V) –...
Because of the crippling lack of continuity in Public Diplomacy in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I am confident that the many Public Diplomacy officers who later served in those countries will be...
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Quotable: Robert Reilly on Public Diplomacy and Information Operations (IV) –...
Robert Reilly’s 2013 paper, “Information Operations: Successes and Failures,” continues: On the other hand, VOA and the BBG did get something right, at least at the start, concerning Afghanistan. . ....
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Quotable: Robert Reilly on Public Diplomacy and Information Operations (I) --...
“From my experiences in the Cold War and since 9/11, I have formulated a few brief principles for the conduct of wars of ideas. First, do not go into a war of ideas unless you understand the ideas you...
View ArticleQuotable: David Kobs on the ideological power of the Islamic State
“ISIS and similar groups must be defeated by advancing strong arguments that counter their ideology and by much greater socio-political inclusion for young Muslims. The struggle will be won online—not...
View ArticleQuotable: Stewart Eales on Promoting Democracy
“The four post-Cold War presidents share three things in common with regard to the promotion of democracy: all embraced it as an American responsibility, spoke of it in idealist terms that envisioned a...
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Quotable: Mackay, Tatham, and Rowland on Information Operations in Afghanistan
da.mod.uk “During World War 1 the allies flew aircraft made of Balsa wood and fired archaic weapons across No Man’s Land. In 2012 the allies fly super-sonic stealth aircraft and deliver precision...
View ArticleQuotable: Votel, Cleveland, Connett, and Irwin on Gray Zone conflicts
The planners and thinkers of the armed forces are in intellectual ferment as they think through new challenges – ISIS, Russia, hybrid warfare, China and the nine-dash line, a larger number of nuclear...
View ArticleQuotable: Steve Tatham on using social science in response to Russian propaganda
“Whatever might be said about Russian foreign and military policy in Ukraine and the former soviet states, they cannot be accused of not taking Information Warfare seriously.” Retired Royal Navy...
View ArticleQuotable: Thomas McCabe on the mainstreaming of jihadism
Thomas McCabe, writing in the Summer 2016 issue of Middle East Quarterly, has thought through the darkest scenario for a long, tough and bloody war against ISIS that is not confined to the Middle East....
View ArticleQuotable: NATO Centre on social media as a tool of hybrid warfare
“The Russian military operation against Ukraine, which resulted in the annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and the continuous warfare in Eastern Ukraine, provide a demonstration of Russia’s new...
View ArticleQuotable: Kristin Colley on U.S. strategic communication in the urbanized,...
Less than two decades from now, our nation’s adversaries “will be extensively electronically connected, able to communicate rapidly and securely via new apps. They will be able to instantly transfer...
View ArticleQuotable: Gregory Tomlin on social media in a NATO exercise
“For information operations (IO) professionals long accustomed to incorporating messages into host-nation newspapers and radio broadcasts, it is now imperative that they consider online methods to...
View ArticleQuotable: General Scaparrotti on deterrence and “our strategic message”
On July 27, 2016, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, spoke at the 2016 Deterrence Symposium. Here are excerpts from his speech...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy: Seen on the Web (I)
These are abbreviated references to articles "seen on the web" relating to public affairs, Public Diplomacy, international broadcasting, and information operations, provided in this format to allow...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy: Seen on the Web (II)
These are abbreviated references to articles "seen on the web" relating to public affairs, Public Diplomacy, international broadcasting, and information operations, provided in this format to allow...
View ArticleQuotable: Dan Goure on “countering Russian disinformation warfare”
“Virtually all of the political measures that need to be implemented to counter Russian efforts to destabilize Europe and undermine its collective organizations are defensive in nature. What has...
View ArticleQuotable: Brett Daniel Shehadey on the Information element of national power
“Public Diplomacy (PD) and strategic communications (SC) are needed on a massive scale to combat international jihadism, future non-state actors and authoritarian state information agencies and efforts...
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