Ping to self for later perusal.
Bump
Finally!
Fight back! The media is part of the battlefield!
Our:
• Super secrecy, which doesn’t keep much secret from the enemy, but actually suppresses positive stories, needs to be rethought.
• Our slow process oriented, the bureaucratic approach to dealing with Information Operations, often causes us to “miss the boat” and by the time we react it’s to late anyhow and the public is lost. We are typically reactive with the media.
• Our political correctness and self restricting MO in the realm of Information Operations allows the enemy to exploit the net, more or less play journalists, and take advantage of the press cycle etc. while we debate the ethics of imbedded journalists and if that should be done.
• The Army is about putting lead down range and that makes sense. The peripherals or what was seen as such (Supporting roles), to which Information Operations: Psyop, Civil Affairs, and Public Affairs more or less fell under were grossly neglected, poorly resourced, and given little attention.
We are winning Iraq and it is slowly beginning to show. One of the major lessons learned here is that our DoD needs to rethink and resource Information Operations differently than in the past. Iraq wasn’t ever a miserable quagmire, our ability to get the real story out was.
I truly believe, the average Joe on a blog, or writing to family and relatives, giving a speech on Veterans Day, etc. is the one who ultimately saved the day as far as keeping at least some semblance of objectivity and telling people what is really happening. Left to their own vices, the media would and indeed vastly did report negative and highly biased, with the Army just sitting there doing little while being massacred in public perception both in the Middle East as well as at home. -IMHO
Question: Excuse my ignorance, but why are their English markings on Iranian Rockets?
I think it would be fun to own some of these rockets. Oh, all right ... the military can keep the high explosives. But think of the fun at the next local elementary school “rocket day!”