Company Level Intelligence Led Operations

[Woland]

I agree entirely. I argued this time and time and time again with people far more senior and better paid than me and my reward was a crap annula report which said I was 'an extremely capable analyst who nevertheless can be difficult for superiors to deal with.' Yep, thanks. Anyway, the whole set up had no influence specialists, no-one with your 30 years of experience, no-one with any idea of what sort of doctrine to operate to. It was all guesswork and created to replicate the kinetic process. Insane. When given this role ('Non-kinetic targeteer' was it's official title, believe it or not) I said with incredularity that it looked like a hastily conceived expeirment to me, and the staff officer I was speaking to said 'you're absolutely correct' and then said something about me needing to do as I was told. But despite him admitting this, he still wanted to 'go operational' ASAP. And I sighed and thought 'ohhhhhhh Christ...'

So no wonder we were pissing in the wind. Totally amateurish. It's thoroughly depressing to think of even now.

jcustis - I've every intention of having a look at the article, which I've now located. I'll get round to it in the next few days, hopefully.

[marct]

You know, I got my initial "training" in the area by coming from a political family . Grassroots, applied politics (not Political [pseudo-]"Science") is all about influence operations, especially in the artificial hothouse of multi-party elections (we usually have between 3 and 12 candidates in any riding in Canada). I've often thought that the best way to screen for someone who would be a good IO type person would be to ask them about their volunteer grassroots political activity growing up - then screen them out if they have a PoliSci degree !

If it makes you feel any better, it's the same sort of crap in the CF from what I hear.