Blog entries tagged IO-Blog

Headline Only Society?

Joel Harding — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:31:53 +0100

I just read a very thought provoking statement: "...everything is
a headline, no one even reads magazine articles in their entirety."
This statement is disturbing to me on a number of different levels.
First, it's somewhat true for me. I generally read a headline, I read
the first few paragraphs, skim much of the rest of an article and then
the last few paragraphs I read in detail. I just don't have time to
read everything available that IRead More...

On Cyberwar - After the War is War Symposium

Joel Harding — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:58:55 +0100

During the last week of January 2010 I was at the Army War College for a Cyberwarfare Symposium where all the US Combatant Commanders, Service representatives, Joint Staff and Cyber and/or IO leaders were present. The publications we were required to read prior to our participation were voluminous, but when we were finished we all had a very good understanding of how a cyberwar will play out from a variety of perspectives. I came out of this symposium a shaken man; to my corRead More...

The Real Psychological Operation for Afghanistan

Joel Harding — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:59:47 +0100

The Real Psychological Operation for Afghanistan

By Matt Armstrong

Originally posted at http://mountainrunner.us/2009/12/psyop_for_afghanistan.html

On December 1, 2009, President Obama announced his Afghanistan strategy and what immediately followed was an expected and unoriginal cacophony of sound bites based on selective memories of the past and shallow and ignorant visions of the present and future. The decline in the public’s support for the struggle is surely aRead More...

Operational Security Reminder

Joel Harding — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

I admit I stole something today. Well, maybe not, I didn't exactly steal it. There is a saying that the greatest form of flattery is plagiarism. I read a joke today that really made me sit up and notice. It was sent around by the OPSEC Professionals Association and I was sure glad I received the following joke, so I'm reproducing it here:

There was a man who had worked at a factory for twenty years. Every night when he left the plant, he woulRead More...

What is IO?

Joel Harding — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

What is Information Operations

Information Operations (IO) are activities conducted in or via the information environment with the intent to affect and protect cognition, cognitive processes, information, and the connectivity and processing systems necessary to create and exchange information. IO uses any or all means, in integrated and coordinated means, to create cognitive effects. IO span the full range of activities in human interaction from person to pRead More...

The Unvarnished Truth about Information Operations

Joel Harding — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The Unvarnished Truth about Information Operations

Joel Harding

We have some really great news about Information Operations! Recent reports from the ongoing Quadrennial Defense Review in the US Department of Defense confirm that there should be a new definition of IO soon that is much easier to understand, focused on integration and effects, and enables more tools to be used because it does not list components as a part of the definitiRead More...

Cyberwar Redefines War

Joel Harding — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:59:11 +0100

Cyberwar Redefines War

Joel Harding

The definition of war is going to have to change in the future. After listening to the Russians in October and November of 2009, after cogitating what the Chinese are 'allegedly' doing, having read the Chinese PLA publication “Unrestricted Warfare”, I believe the threshold Read More...