The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We used to emphasize incompetence over conspiracy. The Kony 2012 IO “story” is being exploded by multiple sources, most of which accuse the KONY administrators of being out and out thieves who deliver less than 30% of collected funds to any good use; and who have been reinventing themselves each year. There are many truths …
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I am always amazed when people tell me IO doesn’t work and then I see things such as this….I guess what they are really saying is incompetence doesn’t work….. Kony 2012: The anatomy of a viral campaign Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post, 9 March 2012 A particularly savvy media campaign by a nonprofit group called Invisible …
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What a surprise! U.S. ‘info ops’ programs dubious, costly Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker USA TODAY, 29 February 2012 WASHINGTON – As the Pentagon has sought to sell wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to often-hostile populations there, it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on poorly tracked marketing and propaganda campaigns that military …
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Short URL for all unclassified IO Newsletters remains http://www.oss.net/IO. Table of Contents Below the Line
Little coverage to begin with, then mostly negative following ….. indications that the “fat cats” are calling in favors to discredit this initiative. With the Transport Workers Union filing a complaint about the commandeering of buses to move the detained, word is spreading….time for social media to step up to the plate as it has …
Information Operations Primer (USAWC, AY 11, November 2010 This latest revision of the Information Operations Primer provides an overview of Department of Defense (DoD) Information Operations (IO) doctrine and organizations at the joint and individual service levels. The IO Primer begins with an overview of Information Operations, Strategic Communication and Cyberspace Operations. (Note: as the …
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Lawmakers slash budget for Defense Department’s information ops By Walter Pincus Congress is slowly but surely trying to get the Pentagon to cut back on its overseas information operations, most of which end up being done by contractors. The latest hint has come from the House Appropriations Committee, which has sliced about $125 million from …
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