by lundry | Feb 22, 2013 | Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication, COMOPS Journal, Media, Military, Narrative, Public Diplomacy & Strategic Communication, Research, Strategic Comm.
Professor Steven R. Corman, the Director of the Center for Strategic Communication and the Herberger Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, received the ASU Alumni Association Founder’s Day Faculty Achievement...
by admin | May 17, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Complexity, Counterterrorism, Islam, Military, Narrative, Politics, Publications, Religion, Sharia
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has released a short monograph, De-Legitimizing al-Qaeda: A Jihad-Realist Approach, by sociologist Paul Kamolnick, a professor at Eastern Tennessee State University. Kamolnick criticizes current US efforts...
by admin | Apr 26, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Framing, Government, Indonesia, Military, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry Indonesian extremists continue to portray Ambonese Christians as engaged in separatist rebellion against Indonesia, and a crusade against Muslims. This isn’t true, but raises the question: where on earth did they get this idea? The adage that if a lie...
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 ruston | Jan 6, 2012 | Diplomacy, Europe, Military, Narrative, Strategic Comm.
by Scott W. Ruston* In December, COMOPS was invited to participate in a question and answer forum with General Stéphane Abrial, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, hosted by Atlantic-Community.org. Atlantic-Community is a leading European online think tank...
by editor | Nov 2, 2010 | Analysis, Defense Dept., Image, Intelligence, Iraq, Media, Military, Strategic Comm.
by Cameron Bean and Bennett Furlow On Friday, October 22, Wikileaks released almost 400,000 documents on the Iraq War. At first Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell seemed to downplay the release, claiming the documents were “essentially snapshots of events” and do...