PSYOPS
The Key to Destroying ISIL is Information Warfare
April 23 by James P. FarwellThree crucial messages should guide America's fight against ISIS, reports James Farwell As battles wage in the Middle East, are governments investing as much in information as they are in kinetic...
NATO PSYOPS in practice: Measures of effectiveness, interpreters and other key lessons
March 26 by Richard de SilvaDefence IQ recently spoke with Italian Army Colonel Marco Stoccuto, who has been serving as the PSYOPS Section Head at NATO Joint Forces Command for the past year. Stoccuto updates us on how lessons...
The new verbal battlespace where 'weaponised words' and information operations meet
February 10 by Defence IQ Press"At the end of the day everyone needs to come and sit round the table to resolve a conflict. It doesn’t matter how many bombs you drop, at some point it’s going to have to go to dialogue. If you plug...
How UK defence is moving to "full spectrum" communications
May 19 by Defence IQ DigitalThe British military’s communications strategy is in the process of a shakeup. Where before there existed two ‘universes’ – that of IO and psyops, and that of public relation...
'Pre-emptive War' Gains Credence as Information Operations Accelerate in Present Day Campaigns
August 30 by Defence IQ DigitalPre-emptive war - it's a new concept, but it's entering many modern warfighters' parlance as a credible means of 'pre-empting' full scale kinetic operations. Brigadier General Ed Burley is commander...
The PsyOps Bell Curve: Why is ISAF Revising its Afghan Information Operations Campaign?
June 02 by Robert DensmoreJames McLeod-Hatch is Outgoing Chief of the Target Audience Analysis at Combined Joint Psychological Operations Task Force at ISAF in Kabul, Afghanistan. He speaks to the Counter Propaganda Master N...
Rule Number One for Effective Information Operations in the Field: Access Equals Power
May 05 by Richard de SilvaThe knowledge gap is widening. Daily change and complex messaging in volatile regions like Afghanistan and Libya produce an environment that is difficult to assess by 'experts' locked behind HQ comp...
How Will Al-Qaeda Survive the Death of Osama Bin Laden?
May 04 by Bruno VanasseOn the night of 1 May 2011, US President Obama announced the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, who was killed during a US forces raid on a mansion in Abbottabad, a Pakistani town 150...
'Libyanistan': 5 Strategies We Should Have Followed - And Still Aren't
April 27 by Bruno VanasseOn the morning of September 11, 2001, I was in Boston on advanced consulting training at the corporate headquarters of the business consulting firm I was working for at the time. That day the traini...
Opinion: 'Western Powers Must Divide Gadhafi from His Supporters'
March 21 by James P. FarwellLibyans are rising up in hopes of ousting a notorious despot while facing threats of massacre and, in the wake of Arab League and United Nations action to prevent that, military action should be com...
Korean community urges strong response to attacks
November 26 by Radio Free AsiaNorth Korean defectors and Korean-Americans call for a stand against future provocations. Governments around the world must stand up to North Korean belligerence following a recent artillery at...
Part II - The Frontline Information Operations Campaign: ISAF X
November 22 by Defence IQ PressColonel Huub Vullinghs of the Netherlands served as the Chief of Information Operations in the Afghan theatre from April 2007 to April 2008. Serving on his first operational deployment, Colonel Vull...