by admin | May 8, 2012 | COMOPS Journal
CSC Director Steve Corman addressed the 5th NATO SHAPE Strategic Communication conference on June 21st in Izmir, Turhey. The conference gathered over 140 practitioners from NATO member countries. The conference featured a keynote address by Gen. John Allen, commander...
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 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 admin | Apr 9, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Framing, Narrative, Politics, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman Last month, James Appathurai, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, agreed to participate in an electronic Q&A sponsored by the Atlantic Community. He answered 20 questions in four...
by lundry | Oct 3, 2011 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Framing, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Southeast Asia, Suicide Bombing
by Chris Lundry On Sunday, September 25, a lone suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a Protestant Church in Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, as services were letting out. Along with the bomber, one congregant was killed and several wounded from the shrapnel composed of...
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...