Distributed IO by PSYOP Auxiliaries and Volunteer Counter Propagandists

CIIDG ^ | 20070422 | Cannoneer No. 4

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Free Republic and individual Freepers are already performing distributed Information Operations in the form of counter propaganda. JimRob is an IO G Chief/War Lord, but this forum has the potential to do much more for the American domestic target audience. Freepers who are also bloggers are IO G's. Commenters here and on blogs can be IO auxiliaries, and lurkers who spread good links around can be sympathizers. We have already had an impact. We could eventually have a decisive effect.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[El Gran Salseron]

I think this would better be posted during the day.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

It IS day where I am. My free time and internet access don't coincide with prime time in the States.

Maybe you could ping it around for me in about six hours.

[Doctor Raoul]

Bump...

[Southack]

I’d have to say that Free Republic busting Dan Rather for pushing forged National Guard docs would qualify as a quality civilian counter-propaganda exercise.

...But it’s much more problematic for civilians to go busting traitors like Valerie Plame and her paramour Joe Wilson for their fabricated Niger uranium operation...since civies don’t have access to the right data.

[El Gran Salseron]

Yes, I can ping people to it tomorrow but that’ll be Sunday. Not many are around on Sunday. I’ll ping on Monday also.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

“Busting traitors” would be outside the lane of civilian volunteer counter propagandists, but convincing fellow citizens that treason should be punished wouldn’t be.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

That would help, thanks.

Your first mission as an IO Auxiliary.

[knarf]

ping

[tet68]

Bump in six hours.

[intenseracer]

I took the oath in 92, it still applies, let me know what I can do.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ex military intelligence (see profile). Let me know what I can do, though I’m rusty....

[philman_36]

placemarker

[philman_36]

... in which the term information operations is sure to be summarily banished from joint doctrine.
In light of the second paragraph in the INFORMATION OPERATIONS link, shouldn't warfare be the term banished instead of operations?
An intentional error, perhaps to see who's paying attention?

[Radigan]

I write this from Iraq, near Baghdad, and as a psyop tactical team leader.
We are forbiden from using psyop on Americans.
We are forbiden from mentioning the enemy by name.
There is no means in the government to counter the propaganda of the mainstream media except sites like Free Republic.
Tactically, are ability to accomplish our mission and goals for the supported command is compromised by political correctness, ignorance and a lumbering process for vetting and approving new psyop products. We do what we can.
There isn’t the will within the government to counter the mainstream media.....they are afraid of them. And those that are afraid are the cowards who fail to confront evil and those who passively support it.

[Lurker]

Let me know what you need.

L

[Cannoneer No. 4]

I feel your pain. I'm to your west, and I've have given up on the government unfornicating itself in the strategic propaganda arena.

Guys like you, posting anonymously, could provide valuable assistance to wannabe info-guerrillas. There are counter propaganda techniques that could be applied at the strategic level by people who aren't subject to the Smith-Mundt Act. Refutation is a whole lot like fisking, and doesn't require formal PSYOP training. Silence is not working.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Short term -- spread this thread around your circle of influence

The pajamahadeen are waiting for leadership and instruction. If you are not encumbered by any restrictions on your free speech, consider blogging, or commenting on blogs, where distance learning for potential counter propagandists can take place.

[R. Scott]

“Propaganda” has long had a negative connotation here. That may even be one of the reasons our MSM is so heavily against any positive news from the war - they fear being accused of disseminating government propaganda, but have no problem with disseminating the enemy’s propaganda.
Propaganda is neither evil or good. It can either be The Big Lie, or the truth. According to Webster, propaganda is any widespread promotion of particular ideas, doctrine, etc.