Why False Enemy Propaganda Matters: German Jihadi Motivated by Fake US Soldier Rape V

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http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/206637.php



Who in DOD fights enemy propaganda?

Does EUCOM do any kind of counterpropaganda that might mitigate the effect enemy propaganda has on Kosovars in the German domestic target audience?

Who fights enemy propaganda?

The stupidest and the worst.

Anyone who has been around I/O and PAO in ISAF and IJC notes the large amount of relieved and rejected bottom-feeders who inhabit both fields of work.

The Navy sends ship commanders to IJC to be in charge of I/O on 30 day tours. A continuous parade of clueless Naval O-6s, who know how to run an aircraft carrier, or cruiser, but do not even have time to completely inprocess before they are farewelled and replaced by the next 30 day loser.

The people who run ISAF PAO/IO amaze one that they can actually breathe and walk at the same time. Helicopter pilots, Armor officers, Marine field grades and a large proportion of idiotic Air Force and Naval personnel who have zero experience in ground warfare, IO/PAO or in Afghanistan inhabit those billets.

And it only gets worse out in the RCs.

And at best, our PAO/IO is reactive in nature. The recipe is thus: SF morons go out and Hellfire or JDAM some "bad guys" (usually without anyone considering what kind of bad guy they are), TB accuses us of murdering babies, and we deny it ever happened. Then we admit it happened, later, but deny we killed anyone. Then we admit later we killed a bad guy, but deny we killed babies. Then we are forced to apologize for killing babies, whether we did or not, because our PAO/IO morons and or moronic SF idiots failed to have a plan for dealing with the fallout, WHICH HAPPENS EVERY F*CKING TIME!!!!

No wonder the rest of the world believes what the bad guys say and think we are a bunch of liars.

10 years of moronitude, repeated often. How stupid an non-learning can an organization be?

I never thought I was some kind of Wiley Coyote "SUPER-genius", but the solution seems pretty simple and straightforward to me.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Who fights enemy propaganda?

The stupidest and the worst.

Ouch. Not necessarily taking up for the OEF/ISAF counterpropaganda effort, but the perception of this interested civilian has been managed or mismanaged in such a way as to lead me to question the effectiveness of EUCOM's, Germany's, and America's counterpropaganda effort.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

http://internet-haganah.com/harchive...91.html#007191

The Frankfurt shooter's Facebook page, and a little color commentary

The jihadi who shot four US service members in Frankfurt yesterday, killing two, left behind a Facebook account and 127 friends.

The shooter, Arid Uka AKA Abu Rayyan, may have acted alone. He certainly was the only person on the scene with a gun, shooting and killing. His radical associations online should put to rest any thought that he was a genuinely unconnected lone wolf.

Is it possible that Uka had no significant meat space contact with any violent Islamist supremacists?

Could Uka have convinced himself of the righteousness of killing American airmen based solely on what he saw on the internet?

[Spud]

Who fights enemy propaganda?

The stupidest and the worst.

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Great post over on the DIME blog as a result of the latest RS shenanigans that I now have printed above my desk in full view of the Combat Engineer and Signaller who run my life. Apparently the theory is that attendance at senior school as a generalist equips them for a posting in my world while my poor-arse mustang specialist career and supporting specialist qualifications means I could not possibly have any idea on how to actually do this. Moreover given my background I obviously cannot write appropriately and therefore everything I do which is designed to be easily understood by most gets 'militarified' in a clearance process that only looks for staff duties. I encourage you all consider Matt's post as well

Lastly, I strongly suspect that one of the primary issues here is that LTG Caldwell’s influence effort was being led by a Marine colonel with zero experience in the field. When it comes to operating in today’s complex environment, you need a leader who truly understands the functional information capabilities, their limitations, and their strengths if he is to be successful in leading their integration. I do not think Col. Breazile was qualified to be in this position – as surely I know I am unqualified to fly an AH-1Z. And that is one of the most important take-aways for leadership: Influence is very, very hard. That random ten-year O-6 that we seem to have in abundance today is invariably not the guy you want running a critical LOO while learning influence OJT.

Meanwhile I'm learning to fly a helicopter gunship on my X-Box.