Be Brave and Embrace Social Media Tools in the IA sphere

The Influence Activity community is in my opinion still an area populated by Luddites and rabid OPSEC supporters who write articles against social media to hide their own inadequacies as front edge practioners.
I mean moving with the times and getting results does expose weaknesses. Right?
This article by social media expert Christian Payne sets out the [...]

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Inaugural Information Operations and Influence Activity (IOIA) Symposium

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Canadian Forces wage PR war in remote areas of Afghanistan

Canada.Com
Kelly Cryderman
Sunday, October 28, 2007
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan – The one-eyed Afghan man stood firm as a dozen soldiers dismounted from three light armoured vehicles and began walking towards his mud huts. Standing beside him, his young son shifted his calloused bare feet nervously on the rocky ground.
Later the man – whose first name was Gulm [...]

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PSYOPS in the Canadian Forces

Core Requirements for the Successful Development of a Psychological Operations Capability for the Canadian Forces

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Music to their ears: A Pashtu-Canadian voice in Kandahar

Vanguard
by Chris Thatcher
“Every minute they are listening to us is a minute they are not listening to them.”
– British Major-General Freddie Viggers, Multinational Division South West, Bosnia
A shepherd tending his flock on the outskirts of Kandahar City; a doctor so addicted he installed radios in all wards so he can listen while tending his patients; [...]

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Changing perspectives: Enhanced ‘Influence Operations’ in conflict

Royal Roads University, Alumni and Learner, Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 2 Issue 1
Spring 2007
by Shareif Mahmoud
A migrant Pakistani worker has come to Kandahar for the poppy harvesting season. When the season ends, he will have to decide either to return home to his poor family or look for other work. He will be approached by a [...]

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