US unleashes the most Professional trooper ever
I've talked to several US troopers back from tour,
Afghanistan, Iraq.
Even the Sergeant's impressed me with a quiet,
professionalism.
They had an understanding of Islam even the
different branches with in the Moslems.
And a comprehension of the US mission in the
GWOT. Beyond the shoot'em up, killer persona.
To be sure they were very clear on the force of
power behind every solider and capability to kill.
And that is not the first weapon of choice, killing
is a weapon of last resort excepting eminent threats.
There is something new, an underlying respect for
the 'Other'. Someone of a different culture.
In Vietnam and WWII there was a element of
Psyops propaganda that the enemy was less than
human.
That paradigm seems to be missing in the current
conflict. And that is not to say the enemy is not hated
and despised. But in the new paradigm there is a respect
for their culture and an effort to understand the thinking
behind the culture of the 'Other'.
The military training has instilled a comprehension of
this shift in the Military paradigm.
In WWII they were carpet bombing civilian German
cities in an effort not only to defeat Nazi's but the German
people also.
US Military no longer subscribes to the thought of bombing
out the civilians will to fight or support the war.
Now the wining of hearts and minds has filtered down
to the grunts as the primary paradigm.
With killing the enemy as a fall back position.
Of course there are strategic exceptions, the Drone
program for example, they target the enemy cadre leadership
for death.
The US military is trying to run a SysAdmin program,
along with a Infowar to try and win the hearts and minds.
The Troopers know XYZ is Taliban, but still try and
work with him, looking for common ground, options
other than killing him.
They are able to set aside their hatred for an enemy with
out honor, the Taliban to try and work out some solutions.
The Infowar has really stepped up in Afpak, but still falls
short. In running our Infowar operations we have been
studying what we believe to be the worlds best and top
Info-warriors, the GOP, the Republican in American
politics. They are the worlds experts.
And we have been testing their methods and tactics,
and turning them against the GOP. its an easy metric
for us to track and measure.
While we are not going to expose what we have learned
from the GOP, the force multiplier effect is remarkable and
very effective, way beyond our expectations.
Coupled with our covert cyber operations, used in unison
and our Paradigm Intel all falling back on a field of applied
anthropology has yielded some very remarkable results.
And our BSUs (Bot Surveillance Units) for metrics and
covert Cyber operations makes us a formidable successful
opponent.
A bothersome issue is discovering where and when to apply
this force, and foreseeing the outcome of the law of untended
consequences.
Which has stayd our hand on many issues and opportunities.
The Military is working on a new Infowar paradigm but basing
it on outdated theories. The new social media is instant,
and very powerful. But the Military is not know for instant
responses in the political arena.
Their current paradigm prohibits the "BALLS" to be successful
in a social media Infowar.
An example is the Taliban get out news reports about
terrorist attacks on US forces with in 15 min of actual
attack sometimes, the US Military responds with in
two weeks most of the time.
The Taliban is eating the US Military's Infowar lunch.
The instant Taliban social media response over the
US Military's two week response allows a huge advantage
to the insurgents, for two weeks the public and news outlets
are pumping the Taliban lies and propaganda as truth,
as it is the only version of the story in the cyber domain.
Two weeks later the truth comes out and its too late.
Many times the Instant Taliban version is accepted
as the truth and the real story never catches up to the
lies that have been circulating for two weeks.
When the Taliban releases their instant version it is
NEWS. Two weeks later its "PAST NEWS". Old hat.
Not of immediate interest.
The Military still regards the WWW as a security risk,
not as a major weapon of war.
Pakistan has 91,000 Twitter accounts.
Direct access to the hearts and minds of influential
Pakistani civilians, yearning for the truth, a way to
peace, and ignored by the US Military.
ISI is running a program of Infowar of disinformation
and obtuse irrational conspiracies to keep the civilian
population confused.
Read some of the crap they put out:
And these lies go unanswered except for the Civilian
irregular cyber troops grinding away on these lies day in
and day out.
An effective Infowar doesn't need a thousand sock puppets controled
by an computer program, it needs a trained cadre with rules of engagement
operating 24/7 to counter the lies and disinformation, in an instant.
Not too little, to late, two weeks later.
Opsec prevents me from going into operational details of methods
and strategies. But they are based on getting the truth out there, NOW.
The anthropology of Infowar in social media is clear, effective and a
tremendous force multiplier, is not being applied by American Military.
The Infowar force could use a General with a hacker background
and in depth background in social media.
A while back the Military was peanalizing those troops
with a background in social media with a lower security
clearance.
They are working on it, give them credit for that.
Gerald
War Anthropologist
Post Script:
Inside Darpa’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine.
By Noah Shachtman
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpas-secret-spy-machine/all/1
Darpa's Nexus 7 should look at Tweets with "#Pakistan" and key tweeters.
And other social media. As well as post on Key forums.
Nexus 7 sounds like a system to correlate vast amounts of data.
And they don't know what they will find, but the effort sounds promising.
And would also be useful in an Infowar.
G
Anthropologist
Afghanistan, Iraq.
Even the Sergeant's impressed me with a quiet,
professionalism.
They had an understanding of Islam even the
different branches with in the Moslems.
And a comprehension of the US mission in the
GWOT. Beyond the shoot'em up, killer persona.
To be sure they were very clear on the force of
power behind every solider and capability to kill.
And that is not the first weapon of choice, killing
is a weapon of last resort excepting eminent threats.
There is something new, an underlying respect for
the 'Other'. Someone of a different culture.
In Vietnam and WWII there was a element of
Psyops propaganda that the enemy was less than
human.
That paradigm seems to be missing in the current
conflict. And that is not to say the enemy is not hated
and despised. But in the new paradigm there is a respect
for their culture and an effort to understand the thinking
behind the culture of the 'Other'.
The military training has instilled a comprehension of
this shift in the Military paradigm.
In WWII they were carpet bombing civilian German
cities in an effort not only to defeat Nazi's but the German
people also.
US Military no longer subscribes to the thought of bombing
out the civilians will to fight or support the war.
Now the wining of hearts and minds has filtered down
to the grunts as the primary paradigm.
With killing the enemy as a fall back position.
Of course there are strategic exceptions, the Drone
program for example, they target the enemy cadre leadership
for death.
The US military is trying to run a SysAdmin program,
along with a Infowar to try and win the hearts and minds.
The Troopers know XYZ is Taliban, but still try and
work with him, looking for common ground, options
other than killing him.
They are able to set aside their hatred for an enemy with
out honor, the Taliban to try and work out some solutions.
The Infowar has really stepped up in Afpak, but still falls
short. In running our Infowar operations we have been
studying what we believe to be the worlds best and top
Info-warriors, the GOP, the Republican in American
politics. They are the worlds experts.
And we have been testing their methods and tactics,
and turning them against the GOP. its an easy metric
for us to track and measure.
While we are not going to expose what we have learned
from the GOP, the force multiplier effect is remarkable and
very effective, way beyond our expectations.
Coupled with our covert cyber operations, used in unison
and our Paradigm Intel all falling back on a field of applied
anthropology has yielded some very remarkable results.
And our BSUs (Bot Surveillance Units) for metrics and
covert Cyber operations makes us a formidable successful
opponent.
A bothersome issue is discovering where and when to apply
this force, and foreseeing the outcome of the law of untended
consequences.
Which has stayd our hand on many issues and opportunities.
The Military is working on a new Infowar paradigm but basing
it on outdated theories. The new social media is instant,
and very powerful. But the Military is not know for instant
responses in the political arena.
Their current paradigm prohibits the "BALLS" to be successful
in a social media Infowar.
An example is the Taliban get out news reports about
terrorist attacks on US forces with in 15 min of actual
attack sometimes, the US Military responds with in
two weeks most of the time.
The Taliban is eating the US Military's Infowar lunch.
The instant Taliban social media response over the
US Military's two week response allows a huge advantage
to the insurgents, for two weeks the public and news outlets
are pumping the Taliban lies and propaganda as truth,
as it is the only version of the story in the cyber domain.
Two weeks later the truth comes out and its too late.
Many times the Instant Taliban version is accepted
as the truth and the real story never catches up to the
lies that have been circulating for two weeks.
When the Taliban releases their instant version it is
NEWS. Two weeks later its "PAST NEWS". Old hat.
Not of immediate interest.
The Military still regards the WWW as a security risk,
not as a major weapon of war.
Pakistan has 91,000 Twitter accounts.
Direct access to the hearts and minds of influential
Pakistani civilians, yearning for the truth, a way to
peace, and ignored by the US Military.
ISI is running a program of Infowar of disinformation
and obtuse irrational conspiracies to keep the civilian
population confused.
Read some of the crap they put out:
One of the ISI sock puppets:
Ahmed Quraishi of
#Pakistan Navy is running ISI's media wing. Rear Admiral Adnan is the head, with Commodore Khalid Pervez the deputy. Running a covert hate America Infowar campaign.
And these lies go unanswered except for the Civilian
irregular cyber troops grinding away on these lies day in
and day out.
An effective Infowar doesn't need a thousand sock puppets controled
by an computer program, it needs a trained cadre with rules of engagement
operating 24/7 to counter the lies and disinformation, in an instant.
Not too little, to late, two weeks later.
Opsec prevents me from going into operational details of methods
and strategies. But they are based on getting the truth out there, NOW.
The anthropology of Infowar in social media is clear, effective and a
tremendous force multiplier, is not being applied by American Military.
The Infowar force could use a General with a hacker background
and in depth background in social media.
A while back the Military was peanalizing those troops
with a background in social media with a lower security
clearance.
They are working on it, give them credit for that.
Gerald
War Anthropologist
Inside Darpa’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine.
By Noah Shachtman
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpas-secret-spy-machine/all/1
Darpa's Nexus 7 should look at Tweets with "#Pakistan" and key tweeters.
And other social media. As well as post on Key forums.
Nexus 7 sounds like a system to correlate vast amounts of data.
And they don't know what they will find, but the effort sounds promising.
And would also be useful in an Infowar.
G
Anthropologist
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"In running our Infowar operations we have been
studying what we believe to be the worlds best and top
Info-warriors, the GOP, the Republican in American
politics."
Maybe it is a case
of the grass
is always greener
on the other side? If you watch Morning Joe long enough you will see
Mika get on air text messages from the whitehouse.
From my perspective it appears
as if Obama and the Democrats are the propaganda
experts.
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