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Improving Information Operations With a Military Cultural Analyst

Improving Information Operations With a Military Cultural Analyst

Rodgers, Stephen C.

Paperback

General Political ScienceMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 128825380X
ISBN13: 9781288253807
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The concept and practice of using information as a tool in military operations to support political objectives has gained increased notoriety and emphasis within U.S. political and military arenas over the course of the last decade. Two particular publications of 2001, the Quadrennial Defense Review Report (QDR) and the United States Army Field Manual 3-0, Operations, highlight this fundamental shift in the growing importance of using information in warfare. Of particular importance, the 2001QDR mandated that information operations be treated not merely as an enabling function, but as a core capability of future forces. Recent military operations conducted during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), however, indicate that the application of this newly christened element of combat power has fallen well short of desired effectiveness. While OIF produced stunningly rapid and decisive tactical and operational military successes it has yet to produce the post-conflict environment that was envisioned prior to the onset of hostilities. This, however, should not come as a surprise. The Army has spent the past three decades honing its lethal capabilities - the last half of which without a peer military competitor - at its combat training centers, gunnery ranges and simulation exercises. Yet this unmitigated focus on purely lethal means of influence has left the Army lacking the knowledge, skills, and trained personnel to shape the operational environment with non-lethal means such as information operations. Without comprehensive changes in training, equipment distribution and personnel management, the Army will continue to struggle to employ information operations and fail to achieve the directives of the 2001 QDR. More importantly, the Army will continue to send soldiers into regions that could have been made far less dangerous with effective information operations. Fortunately, the Army has begun several studies in an effort to make the necessary changes to improve information

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