Ideas as weapons [electronic resource] : influence and perception in modern warfare / edited by G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III ; foreword by H.R. McMaster.

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ISBN:

9781597976503

Title:

Ideas as weapons [electronic resource] : influence and perception in modern warfare / edited by G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III ; foreword by H.R. McMaster.

Author:

David, G. J.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Foreword / H.R. McMaster -- Acknowledgments / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III -- U.S. military ranks -- Introduction / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III -- PART 1. GEOPOLITICAL: Exploiting structural weaknesses in terrorist networks: Information blitzkrieg and related strategies / Calvert W. Jones ; The limits of military information strategies / Philip M. Taylor ; Defining the War on Terror / Philip G. Wasielewski ; Information warfare / Thomas X. Hammes ; The power of weakness / William S. Lind ; Strategic communications: A mandate for the United States / Jeffrey B. Jones ; Reflections on psychological operations: The imperative of engaging a conflicted population / David Passage ; New tools, new rules: International law and information operations / Duncan B. Hollis -- PART 2. STRATEGIC: Learning counterinsurgency; Observations from soldiering in Iraq / David H. Petraeus ; Thoughts on journalism and the military / Tom Fenton ; Strategic innovation: Integrating national power to win in Iraq / John A. Nagl ; Maneuvering against the mind / Frank G. Hoffman ; Clausewitz's theory of war and information operations / William M. Darley ; Information (in) operations: More than technology / James P. West ; Winning on the information battlefield: Is the story getting out? / Roger S. Galbraith ; In defense of military Public Affairs doctrine / J.D. Scanlon ; Waging an effective strategic communications campaign in the War on Terror / Timothy J. Doorey ; Marketing: An overlooked asset of information operations / Stoney Trent and James L. Doty, III ; Religion in information operations: More than a "War of Ideas" / Pauletta Otis ; Telling the Afghan military story ... their war / Charles W. Ricks ; Amy IO is PSYOPS: Influencing more with less / Curtis D. Boyd ; Estimates, execution, and error: Losing the War of Perception in Vietnam, 1960-1973 / Eric M. Walters.

PART 3. OPERATIONAL: Iraq and a singular, enduring information failure / Bing West ; Between war and peace: Low intensity conflict doctrine and the Iraqi Scenario / Jose L. Delgado ; Are we outsmarting ourselves? / Keith Oliver ; Marines are from Mars, Iraqis are from Venus / Ben Connable ; Clouding the issue: Intelligence collection analysis and dissemination during Operation Iraqi Freedom / George J. Stroumpos ; Massing effects in the information domain: A case study in aggressive information operations / Thomas F. Metz, Mark W. Garrett, James E. Hutton and Timothy W. Bush ; Getting inside the cultural context and achieving intelligence success: Strategic debriefing in the Iraq Survey Group / John A. Wahlquist ; Insights from Colombia's "Prolonged War" / Carlos Alberto Ospina Ovalle ; Winning in the Pacific: The Special Operations Forces' indirect approach / David P. Fridovich and Fred T. Krawchuk -- PART 4. TACTICAL: Tactical information operations in West Rashid: An Iraqi National Police Battalion and its assigned U.S. Transition Team / E. Lawson Quinn ; "But how do I do it?" Tactical information operations and the planning process / Phillip M. Bragg ; Operation Iraqi Freedom II: Information and influence in South-Central Iraq / Clint Nussberger ; The massacre that wasn't / Ben Connable ; "Census operations" and information management / Morgan G. Mann ; Frustration / James McNeive ; Getting out the word: Information operations on the ground in Iraq / Kyle Norton ; Fighting for perceptions: Tactical IO in 2004 Iraq / Jennifer Morris Mayne ; By other means / Zachary D. Martin ; Patrolling Ar Ramadi / Tom Sloan ; The privatization of victory / Roger D. Huffstetler, Jr. ; "Twenty-eight articles": Fundamentals of company-level counterinsurgency / David Kilcullen -- Conclusion: Information in conflict / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III.

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Subject Term:

Information warfare -- United States.

Counterinsurgency -- United States.

Psychological warfare -- United States.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Military policy.

Added Author:

David, G. J.

McKeldin, T. R.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

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Summary

The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the "information battlefield" since the information era began. Yet with the outbreak of the war on terror, the United States has been violently challenged to take a position and react to the militants' use of emerging information technology. Ideological demigods operating against the United States now have unprecedented channels by which to disseminate their message to those targets who are uncertain, sympathetic, or actively supportive of their philosophy. From the caves of southeastern Afghanistan to the streets of Baghdad, "the message" has dominated the thinking of those who perpetrate horrific acts of violence, whether in the name of ideology, ethnic and sectarian partisanship, or religion. This anthology is divided into four sections: geopolitical, strategic, operational, and tactical. The geopolitical perspective covers world politics, diplomacy, and the elements of national power, excluding military force. The strategic view examines where the violence has begun and the military element of power. The operational perspective handles the campaigns to accomplish a specific purpose on the world stage--for example, as in the Iraq campaign. The tactical level takes the individual's role into account. Because the nexus of information conflict is most easily seen in the world's contemporary violent confrontations, this anthology reflects the experience and lessons learned by military personnel who have managed these difficult issues. With a foreword by Colonel H. R. McMaster, U.S. Army, the author of Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.