by Matthew Wallin | Feb 7, 2013 | Monitor
Today, Walter Pincus’ Washington Post column explored the effect of the new U.S. Army Field manual on Inform and Influence Activities (IIA). IIA is essentially a rebranding of the prior term Information Operations (IO) with a bit of tweaking. As the military has been...
by Matthew Wallin | Feb 4, 2013 | Monitor
This weekend, USA Today indicated that outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed skepticism at the effectiveness of the Pentagon’s “propaganda” programs. To an extent, Panetta is right: it is incredibly difficult to gauge the effectiveness of modern...
by John P. Sullivan | Dec 3, 2012 | Monitor
By: John P. Sullivan “The Family doesn’t kill for money; it doesn’t kill for women… only those who deserve to die, die… [T]his is divine justice.”
by Thomas Elkjer Nissen | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
By: Thomas Elkjer Nissen Fit the operation to the narrative, not the narrative to the operation.
by James Emery | Jul 13, 2012 | Monitor
By: James Emery Ramazan is expected to occur July 20 thru August 18, 2012.