Marc | September 22, 2009
A quite brilliant, and very snarky, piece was written by Chris Rodda over at Daily Kos entitled the Top Ten Ways to Convince the Muslims we’re on a Crusade. 10. Have top U.S. military officers, Defense Department officials, and politicians say we’re in a religious war 9. Have top U.S. military officers appear in a [...]
Marc | February 21, 2009
Last Thursday (Feb. 19th, 2009), Inside Higher Ed published an article by Dr. Adam Silverman called The Why and How of Human Terrain Teams. This piece, which is well worth reading, is one of the few that has come out by an HTT member describing their actions in the field – it also “enjoys” comments [...]
Marc | July 23, 2008
A couple of days ago, Max Forte put up an excellent post on Trinidadian music taking an in-depth look at one particular performance piece and, if you haven’t read it yet, you really should. One line in particular has been rattling around in my brain every since I read it: Shadow and Sonia do not [...]
Marc | July 3, 2008
In a recent blog entry, Matt Armstrong draws on the recent thread on Information Operations at SWC and on some of my posts on the topic and, towards the end, asks some really good questions. are we simply recreating stove-pipes? Is IO strategic, operational, or tactical? Where does IO, for example fit in with Countering [...]
Marc | July 1, 2008
There is a something to be learned from looking at what a person says they are going to do and then looking at their actions. It is, in fact, one of the main reasons why all quantitative work, such as survey research, should be checked against qualitative work such as observational research (“shop-alongs” or “micro-ethnographies” [...]
Marc | June 29, 2008
In my last post, I laid out what I consider to be the start of developing a theory of Information Operations (IO). Most of that post deals with an attempt to crate a definition of IO. In the end, the definition I came up with was Information Operations are a) actions taken by actors, b) [...]
Marc | June 27, 2008
Yesterday (June 26, 2008), Andrew Exum posted a blog entry over at Small Wars Journal on Information Operations. As part of the post, he laid out a challenge to SWC members. My challenge for this website’s readers, then, is the following: what do we, as counter-insurgency theorists and practitioners, mean when we use the term [...]
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