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 | Nov 9, 2011 | Publications
by Steven R. Corman NSI has just released a new edited volume (PDF here) that should be of interest to COMOPS Journal readers. Entitled Countering Violent Extremism: Scientific Methods and Strategies, it contains the latest thinking on the subject, including a...
by halverson | Jul 13, 2011 | Analysis, Islam, Language, Narrative, Religion, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Jeffry R. Halverson If you’ve read our book Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism then you already have a solid understanding of the major master narratives employed by Islamist extremists in their communications. For example, you’re able to recognize the...
by admin | Sep 14, 2009 | White Papers
by Angela Trethewey, Steven R. Corman & Bud Goodall Ideology is often ignored or deemed irrelevant to strategic communication because it is an old, possibly leftist, idea that is associated with academic social critique. It is treated as something that lives in...