Sorry but I took your point as reinforcing Wilf's sayingThank you for reaffirming my point...
We do it by default but it's bigger than the Army -- and it is a governmental and political responsibility.
With :IO is the nothing to do with the application of force for the breaking of will.
It is therefore nothing to do with the military. It is entirely political, and thus the realm of civil servants and elected officials.
So you do agree that we have a role in IO?Truer words were rarely spoken. We may forget that but if we do it will be at significant downstream cost to the Armed Forces.
Moreover, much of IO as it is defined falls exclusively in the military realm as in PSYOP, EW, and kinetic destruction. We do it because it is part of our mission and that is not by default. Our doctrine says that we do it and yes I can to come up with any number of examples of doctrinal errors. But as it stands now, it is in the doctrine of our armed forces and we train and execute it constantly.
Tom
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