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This class will be to "red team" the United States on information warfare. The session won't be a simulation exercise, but more of a conversation in taking the

This week our Information Warfare class has a change in the syllabus, with a guest lecture from special operations veteran Joel Harding (http://twitter.com/#!/joel_harding). Mr Harding is one of

For the week of Class 9, we will look at information operations and information warfare as practiced by others. First we'll take a look at multinational considerations of

Did you know that American shoppers are more likely to buy a banana whose peel color is Pantone 12-0752 (Buttercup) than a banana that's Pantone 13-0858 (Vibrant

The human dimension of the current forms of warfare require us to know as much as possible about the attitudes, beliefs, understandings, values, customs, fears, desires, and basic psychology

USA Today runs a lengthy front-page story February 29 about information operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that report is damning. I won't summarize it here, but will encourage

Stability operations are a new concept in counterinsurgency, winning the peace, and violent conflict prevention. As a military doctrine, stability operations has stemmed out of the Counterinsurgency doctrine,

The information operations and information warfare components of counterinsurgency warfare have become increasingly important, and indicators show that the field will continue to expand. We have already discussed PSYOP.

Psychological operations (PSYOP), which the US military recently rolled into a newer concept called military information support operations (MISO), are a principal cognitive component of information operations. We will