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Reference: U.S. Governmental Information Operations and Strategic Communications: A Discredited Tool or User Failure? Implications for Future Conflict

U.S. Governmental Information Operations and Strategic Communications: A Discredited Tool or User Failure? Implications for Future Conflict Dr. Steve Tatham Synopsis Through the prism of operations in Afghanistan, the author examines how the U.S. Government’s Strategic Communication (SC) and, in particular, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Information Operations (IO) and Military Information Support to Operations …

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DefDog: Strategic Communication Declared Dead

Pentagon drops ‘strategic communication’ Tom Vanden Brook USA Today, 3 December 2012 6:11PM EST December 3. 2012 – WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is banishing the term “strategic communication,” putting an end to an initiative that had promised to streamline the military’s messaging but instead led to bureaucratic bloat and confusion, according to a memo obtained …

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Mini-Me: NATO Admiral Says the Future of Global Security is Strategic Communication — Robert Steele Corrects + META-RECAP

Huh? NATO Admiral Says the Future of Global Security is Strategic Communication Written by ruston on August 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment by Scott W. Ruston The title of this post is my interpretation of what ADM James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and Commander of United States European Command (USEUCOM), says …

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2004 Defense Science Board Report on Strategic Communication

Strategic Communications became the buzzword of the decade, along with Information Operations (IO), and it is still sorting itself out.  We have a problem: you cannot manipulate perceptions much out of whack with reality–reality has a way of being pervasive, intrusive, compelling, and inevitable.  Still, this report was very important in part because it demonstrated …

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Robert Steele: War in the Middle East [in February 2018]… A strategic survey of possibilities, winners, losers… (Trump Revolution 19)

Israel Plans War in February 2018 We now know that Benjamin Netanyahu believes he can command the votes in the US Congress to declare war and demand that our Secretary of Defense James Mattis introduce US forces including troops on the group in support of an Israeli and Saudi Arabian war on Iran, Lebanon, and …

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Robert James Beckett: Communication ethics – Principle and practice

With permission Henry Stewart Publications KEYWORDS: COMMUNICATION, ETHICS, DISCOURSE, DIALOGUE, LANGUAGE, RELATIONSHIPS. Communication ethics Principle and practice Author: Robert Beckett MBA, coordinator Institute of Communication Ethics Abstract Communication ethics, this paper argues, is a discipline ready for application to communication management and is particularly relevant in an ‘age of information’. With a moral foundation firmly …

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