by admin | May 7, 2012 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Diplomacy, Government, Iran, Islam, Media, Movements, Politics, Religion
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Arab Spring showed the world how social media can help organize mass political dissent. In the cases of Tunisia and Egypt, single issues coalesced online into far broader and diverse campaigns that toppled ruling regimes. Recently, outside...
by admin | Apr 24, 2012 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Framing, Publications, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has an article in the current issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism on casualty inflation by the Taliban in the Afghanistan conflict. The abstract follows, and the full text is available here (subscription). Cooking the Books:...
by lundry | Jan 18, 2012 | Afghanistan, Image, Indonesia, Iraq, Media, Military, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry (with R. Bennett Furlow) It did not take long for the images of the US Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters to go viral. A moment of lapsed judgment will circulate as long as anyone is interested in seeing it, certainly long after short...
by editor | Sep 6, 2011 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Last Friday the always-excellent PBS Newshour ran a story that left me floored. It featured interviews with several ordinary Afghans who were handed pictures of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. Of a dozen or so people asked, only one man (a...
by goodall | Sep 1, 2010 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Framing, Iraq, Narrative, Obama, Politics
by Bud Goodall President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office last night announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. The speech was largely driven by his choice of a defining metaphor: “We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in...
by editor | Jan 14, 2010 | Afghanistan, Image, Pakistan, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Yesterday the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan over the last year. It concluded that “2009 proved to be the deadliest year yet for civilians since the fall of...