Pace: Will of American People is Enemy’s ‘Center of Gravity’

[Merv Benson]

From PrairiePundit:

Most of the time the media does not want to correct the factual errors it makes in describing the war, whether it is in Iraq or Afghanistan or the war on terror in general. Now DefenseLINK has a page devoted to corrections and letters to the editor that the media would not run. In effect it is like a DOD media blog. It is well worth checking out. This post was drawn from the site.

This story about interviews with Secretary Rumsfeld shows an awareness of the media battle space and that the “center of gravity” in the Iraq war is in America with the American people.

So what is the name of the person who is in charge of prevailing in this battle space?

[selil]

After Rumsfields press conference yesterday it should be interesting to see what happens next.

[979797]

If it wasn't so sad, our lack of understanding when it comes to the media and IO would be hilarious... something akin to the Keystone Cops. Perhaps it's the senior military's mindset of, "gee, we really don't know what this is... let's find something for Colonel ####bird to take care of... hell, give him this media thing." While all the cream of our officer corps want commands and operational staff slots, they treat this line of work like the plague and hand it off to less capable individuals.

The military as an organization needs to lift this to the top, guarantee wonderful career opportunities for those who handle it well, and then select the very best officers to take the reins.

Our media-savvy enemies in Hanoi kicked our asses in this spectrum. You'd have thought the Pentagon would have learned something from that. Guess not.

[Steve Blair]

There was a time when Intel was treated the same way. "It ain't fast track, so put the doofus in the S-2 slot."

Under the current promotion system I don't think you'll ever really see the ops bias go away.