In my current position I'm working with the media more every day and I have found most of the Washington DC based Journalists show one of two faces: honest and enthusiastic and/or jaded and cynical....
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In my current position I'm working with the media...
In my current position I'm working with the media more every day and I have found most of the Washington DC based Journalists show one of two faces: honest and enthusiastic and/or jaded and cynical....
Of course the media is a part of COIN but there...
Of course the media is a part of COIN but there has to be a balance. The US Military is not allowed to "lie" to the media, I'll be gosh-darned if I know what law prevents this, but Public Affairs...
I agree with everyone you say, however...
Derrill, in your last paragraph you accurately state that there is no formula that can define Information Operations. Before I left the dreaded corporate world to work IO exclusively, I was in the...
Truthfully?
I have complete read only one of Tim Thomas' books and skimmed two others and I could honestly not put together a coherent sentence that begins to describe what they write, what they believe and what...
In the Chinese IW forum I'm asking Tim Thomas,...
In the Chinese IW forum I'm asking Tim Thomas, James Mulvenon and Charles "Chuck" Hawkins to represent the US. These gentlemen are identifying the appropriate experts from China to attend, we are...
Tim Thomas
I'm going to do the same thing for you that I did for Sam, I'll send an introductory e-mail and Tim will send you one!
Tim is one of the nicest guys I know and completely undervalued and unknown...
e-mail sent!!
e-mail sent!!
I'd rather looks at this another way...
I was drug (kicking and screaming) into IO before FA-30 was invented when I was working on the Joint Staff, in the J2, the only Army guy in the office. I wasn't tainted by preconceptions, not school...
The key here was that you knew the message and were empowered
The key to what you just wrote, in my opinion, is that you were aware of the message and that you felt empowered to give that message.
You were aware of the implications of taking off your hat and...
Absolutely 100% spot on.
Absolutely 100% spot on.
I agree that we need to work within the current...
I agree that we need to work within the current definition as defined by JP 3-13. However, we also need to work out the long term implications of the definition and the naming.
We have a...
I think the basic problem for the JP 3-13...
I think the basic problem for the JP 3-13 definition is that it starts off defining the components and then tells us what they do. I do not believe the definition of IO should list the components,...
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