by editor | Dec 26, 2007 | Diplomacy, Listening
by Steven R. Corman I ran across this astonishing post by William Triplett at Variety analyzing American’s problem with Public Diplomacy. After citing recent research about our decline in world public opinion, Triplett concludes: the U.S. government continues to...
by editor | Dec 24, 2007 | Framing, Language, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman Back in September I did a post arguing that we should quit calling the Bad Guys jihadis because this helps construct them as religious actors, and start calling them something else, like islamists. Last week Menahem Milson did a post on MEMRI that...
by editor | Dec 21, 2007 | Counterterrorism, Publications
by Steven R. Corman Two new counterterrorism journals have recently launched that should be of interest to COMOPS Journal readers. The first is Perspectives on Terrorism. It is a new journal of the Terrorism Research Initiative, with a mission to ” support the...
by editor | Dec 20, 2007 | Media, PSYOPS, technology
by Steven R. Corman At a government workshop some time ago I head someone describe a new tool that was described as the “voice of Allah.” This was said to be a device that would operate at a distance and would deliver a message that only a single person...
by editor | Dec 11, 2007 | Analysis, Politics
by Steven R. Corman Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that the HELP Commission, appointed by President Bush, would propose sweeping changes in the structure of the State Department, presumably to be undertaken by the next administration. Quoting the chair...
