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Recent events surrounding the presidential election in the United States have thrown Russia's capabilities and intentions in the information domain into renewed focus. The implications of facing a...
He did (almost) everything right and it still turned out wrong.
The legacy of Obama’s attempts to fight cyber war, according to this Defense One piece, is “He did (almost) everything right and it still turned out wrong.” If so, it is the classic example of...
The art of kompromat
A strong and enlightening piece from the Atlantic about how the Russians have repeatedly used blackmail to force powerful people to resign as a result of scandals triggered by weaponized postings...
In this campaign, the Pessimists Party is battling the Optimists over the American self-concept
This is my “New Story Wars” piece from August, 2016 – when the conventional wisdom was that Trump was a loser. It says wait – the future of political and cultural and societal battle is all...
Putin’s efforts to destabilize Western democratic processes are moving across Europe.
Patrick Tucker, of The Atlantic’s Defense One web magazine, is another example of ahead-of-the-curve serious folk taking seriously weaponized narrative attacks. This one is about attacking the...
Moscow didn’t do anything in America’s last election that Washington hasn’t done elsewhere in the world.
Another example of Foreign Policy – with the headline “Stealing Elections Is All in the Game” – being very tough and ahead of the pack on reporting examples of weaponized narrative attacks. –...
The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage. Can Trump figure out the new war in time to win it?
I underlined many sentences in this remarkable Politico piece about what Putin thinks he’s up to in attacking with weaponized narrative. E.g, “What both administrations fail to realize is that...
The British ran a massive and illegal propaganda operation on American soil during World War II—and the White House helped.
If true – and not disinformation – the history of “fake news” operations run by the British in the U.S. during World War II was news to me. Of course, “if true” is a large caveat. Not clear...
Pretty good piece in The New York Times Magazine 19 March 2017 about, essentially, “the weaponization of everything.” (And I would say that even if they didn’t specifically call out our...