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Strategic Communication: The Organizational Challenge

cb3blog wrote 1 day ago: A strong case can be made that contemporary strategic communications, as ‘synchronized coordination … more →

Tags: 1, influence activity, Public Diplomacy, Strategic Comms, Communication Management, Organizational Structure

Talk Softly, Carry Big Stick5 comments

David Betz wrote 5 days ago: Is it just me or has November 2009 been a hellish month for everyone? So, so busy and not much time … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Insurgency, Propaganda, Psychology, Strategy, Taliban, US strategy

Today’s Ancient Warfare: Facts vs. Beliefs

alertindia wrote 2 weeks ago: In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging … more →

Tags: VeteransToday.com, Pakistan, by way of deception, Air strikes, Unconventional Warfare, manipulated beliefs, waging war, false beliefs, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction

Who should the Coalition try to impress?

cb3blog wrote 2 weeks ago: See below some wise words from Major Mehar Omar Khan (Pakistan Army) from his article “Afghani … more →

Tags: influence activity, Political Communications, Public Affairs, Public Diplomacy, Strategic Comms, Supporting democracy, Afghanistan, engagement, Influence

What lies Beneath

cb3blog wrote 1 month ago: The bloody summer in Afghanistan and elections in Iran have recently brought communications within t … more →

Tags: influence activity, media operations, Public Affairs, Public Diplomacy, Public Relations, Strategic Comms, BBC, Influence, international broadcasting services

Counterpoints...

sjponeill wrote 1 month ago: …a miscellany today…largely from tag surfing today while waiting for slow sites to load … more →

Tags: The Thursday/Friday War, Afghanistan, COIN Center, coin, John Birmingham, Information Militia, Running the War in Iraq, Jim Molan, Tribal Engagement Teams

Review - War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age2 comments

cb3blog wrote 1 month ago: There is one book that should be recommended to newly appointed public affairs officers; “The Utilit … more →

Tags: influence activity, media operations, New Media, Public Affairs, Public Diplomacy, Strategic Comms, Influence, Irregular warfare, Web 2.0

The Information Militia1 comment

sjponeill wrote 1 month ago: …it was really great to see former Chief of Army, Lou Gardiner, fronting for the recent launch … more →

Tags: The Thursday/Friday War, claw, coin, Information Militia, Crimestoppers NZ, CIT, stability operations, Running the War in Iraq, Time Sensitive Targeting

Symposium - Winning the communications war: new thinking and new practice

cb3blog wrote 1 month ago: The Inaugural Media Operations and Public Affairs Symposium 20 – 21 January 2010 Venue: Defenc … more →

Tags: influence activity, media operations, Public Affairs, Public Relations, Strategic Comms, Afghanistan, Defence Academy, engagement, Influence

And there I was...

sjponeill wrote 1 month ago: …just standing in the library waiting for the nice young lady to log me into an Internet libra … more →

Tags: The Thursday/Friday War, claw, IO, Public Relations, Tatham, Strategic Communications, influence operations,, Perception, coin

Mission Command in Strategic Communications

cb3blog wrote 2 months ago: Mission Command.  Most military personnel in modern armed forces, certainly in the West, understand … more →

Tags: influence activity, media operations, Public Affairs, Strategic Comms, Clausewitz, leadership, mangement by objectives, mission command, public affiars

Be Brave and Embrace Social Media Tools in the IA sphere

DFBMBE wrote 3 months ago: The Influence Activity community is in my opinion still an area populated by Luddites and rabid OPSE … more →

Tags: christian payne, documentally

TALIBAN PROPAGANDA WATCH: Happy to see you die, too, buddy!

milnewsca wrote 5 months ago: This, according to the Canadian Press’s Colin Perkel, from a Taliban spokesperson responding t … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Taliban propaganda, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, Peloqin, Canadian Press, Colin Perkel

TALIBAN PROPAGANDA WATCH: Radio Voice of Jihad On the Air!

milnewsca wrote 5 months ago: According to this posting (Arabic, .pdf version on non-terrorist web page) at the alsomod.com web fo … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Taliban propaganda, Taliban, Propaganda, Voice of Jihad, alsomod.com, al emarah

TALIBAN PROPAGANDA WATCH: Alternative to Out of Service Web Page

milnewsca wrote 5 months ago: Still no signs of life from the Dutch-based thabaat.net family of web pages, but if you’re so … more →

Tags: Taliban propaganda, thabaat.net, Ansar Al Jihad Network, www.ansarnet.info

Public Diplomacy - Adrift Without a Rudder?

thoughtspray wrote 6 months ago: The Honorable James Glassman delivers Keynote Address at InfowarCon 2009 The Policy Coordinating Com … more →

Tags: Public Diplomacy, strategic communication, Web 2.0

False hope of US Public Diplomacy?

cb3blog wrote 7 months ago: Renowned and prolific blogger Mountainrunner recently posted on ‘The False Hope of the Preside … more →

Tags: Public Diplomacy, Strategic Comms, Soft Power, 1, Public Affairs, Political Communications, Western leadership, obama, policy objectives

Do journalists make good public affairs officers?3 comments

cb3blog wrote 8 months ago: In short: they can and do but, as they say, it ain’t necessarily so. The Information Operation … more →

Tags: influence activity, media operations, Public Affairs, Influence, journalists, public affiars

Iran's getting the bomb, or so we're told. Can they fool us twice?54 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 9 months ago: Summary:  The LAT puts some high-grade disinformation into circulation; Tigerhawk gives this wagon a … more →

Tags: Information & Disinfo, War with Iran, atomic weapons, Barack Obama, Dennis Blair, Institute for Science and International Security, Iran, Leon Panetta, Propaganda


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