by lundry | Jul 27, 2012 | Analysis, Islam, Media, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry In a blog post last month, I noted how the Taliban have been inflating their counts of American casualties to a ridiculous degree. This month it approaches comedy. As reported by Indonesian extremist site ar Rahmah, in the period May 24 to June 23, the...
by editor | Jul 6, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, information operations, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Late last year, we reported that Steve Tatham and colleagues had published a new book entitled Behavioural Confict. Now they have created a new blog to go with the book. Both book and blog pound on the theme that changing attitudes is nice, but...
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 | May 1, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Intelligence, Media, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman CNN is re-reporting a story from Die Zeit about a treasure-trove of al-Qaeda documents and manuals found encrypted in pornographic videos. The encryption was done using a technique call steganography. The videos were found in the possession of...
by lundry | Feb 13, 2012 | Analysis, Indonesia, Media, Narrative, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia, Terrorism 2.0
by Chris Lundry Indonesian Islamist extremist supporters ar Rahmah posted a story today (2-13) on their website and Facebook page about the hacker group Anonymous’ plans for a cyber-attack on Israel. The story (here) links to the Anonymous YouTube video announcing...
by editor | Feb 10, 2012 | Diplomacy, Media, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman I pass on, for your viewing enjoyment, a segment from the PBS Newshour about a perky, Chinese speaking, twenty-something Voice of America employee named Jessica Beinecke. She is becoming something of a sensation in China by teaching American slang...