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Ideas as weapons : 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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Information warfare -- United States.

Counterinsurgency -- United States.

Psychological warfare -- United States.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

United States -- Military policy.

Publisher Info:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2009.

xv, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

9781597972604 (hbk. : alk. paper)

1597972606 (hbk. : alk. paper)

9781597972611 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1597972614 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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.

"The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been termed the "information battlefield" since the dawn of the information era. Yet with the outbreak of the war on terrorism, the United States is being violently challenged to take a position and react to 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 uncertain, sympathetic, or actively engaged in 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 book seeks to illuminate the uses of information in armed conflict by juxtaposing the views of those who engage in manipulating information against the historic context. The anthology is divided into four sections: geopolitical, strategic, operational, and tactical. The geopolitical perspective is that dominated by 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 that has become a major contributing factor. The operational perspective handles the campaigns to accomplish a specific purpose on the world stage- for example, the Iraq campaign. Finally, the tactical level takes into account the individual and the individual clashes within the campaigns at issue. Because the nexus of information conflict is most easily viewed in the world's contemporary violent confrontations, this anthology is heavily weighted toward military personnel who have managed these difficult issues."--BOOK JACKET.

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