Psychological Warfare (2024)

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Commentary Apr 11, 2024 Assemble the Bodyguard of Lies: Strengthening U.S. Military Deception Capabilities Few aspects of warfare are as valuable as efforts to deceive adversaries. The U.S. military inevitably will face rivals who use deception to their advantage, so it should once again hone its own subterfuge skills—from the lowest levels, to gain a tactical edge, to the highest, to achieve strategic surprise.
Report Mar 14, 2024 The Future of Indo-Pacific Information Warfare: Challenges and Prospects from the Rise of AI The authors address the timely issue of AI-powered information warfare in the Indo-Pacific region and its implications for regional and global security, delving into the appropriate strategies required for an effective response.
Journal Article Feb 2, 2024 PLA Social Media Warfare and the Cognitive Domain The article explores how the Chinese military has come to recognize the important role of social media in modern conflict and peacetime operations through its discussions of "social media warfare."
Testimony Feb 1, 2024 Exploring the Implications of Generative AI for Chinese Military Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations: Chinese Military Strategies, Capabilities, and Intent Testimony presented before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission at the hearing "Current and Emerging Technologies in U.S.-China Economic and National Security Competition" on February 1, 2024.
Report Oct 12, 2023 The Nightingale Versus the Bear: What Persuasion Research Reveals About Ukraine's and Russia's Messaging on the War The authors examine influence campaigns employed by Ukraine and Russia since February 2022 — both those targeting each state's own people and military personnel and those targeting the adversary — to understand whether the campaigns have been persuasive.
Report Aug 11, 2023 Planning Ethical Influence Operations: A Framework for Defense Information Professionals Using the principles of necessity, effectiveness, and proportionality, the authors develop a framework for evaluating influence operations with an initial screening, conducting a full ethical risk assessment, and preparing a justification statement.
Report Aug 18, 2022 Rivalry in the Information Sphere: Russian Conceptions of Information Confrontation Information confrontation, with historical roots in Russian (and Soviet) military thinking, is an important element of Russian military strategy. The Ukrainian experience offers insights into Russia's present-day and future use of information confrontation and hybrid warfare.
Report Aug 18, 2022 Russian and Ukrainian Perspectives on the Concept of Information Confrontation: Translations, 2002–2020 This volume compiles texts from leading members of the military-scientific communities in Russia and Ukraine and illustrates how decisionmakers in these countries understand and debate information weapons and information influence.
Report Jun 7, 2022 Russian Disinformation Efforts on Social Media Although portrayals of Russia's disinformation machine as organized and well-resourced are exaggerated, social media disinformation can cause serious harm to U.S. interests. This report provides recommendations to better counter this threat.
Report May 10, 2022 Do National Security Communication Campaigns Work? Taking a Lesson from the Public Health Sector Through a systematic review of research on public health communication campaigns, the authors identified insights relevant to national security communication campaigns, such as those conducted by the U.S. Army's psychological operations forces.
Journal Article Feb 2, 2022 Decoding Crimea: Pinpointing the Influence Strategies of Modern Information Warfare For this paper we write about information in warfare from the perspective of Strategic Communications (StratCom) and the pursuits of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence.
Report Nov 15, 2021 Developing, Disseminating, and Assessing Command Narrative: Anchoring Command Efforts on a Coherent Story Drawing on the scientific literature and lessons learned from the joint force, the authors of this report describe best practices for the effective use of command narrative.
Tool Nov 15, 2021 Command Narrative Smart Guide This quick reference provides the big-picture basics for successful command narrative development and deployment.
Report Nov 8, 2021 Countering Russia: The Role of Special Operations Forces in Strategic Competition This report establishes a strategic framework for U.S. Army special operations forces support to countering Russian activities in the competition space.
Tool Oct 4, 2021 Handbook for Tactical Operations in the Information Environment With its quick-reference format and series of illustrative vignettes, this handbook facilitates problem-solving and highlights how early-career officers in tactical units can contribute to operations in the information environment.
Content Jul 19, 2021 Combating Foreign Disinformation on Social Media How are countries using social media--particularly disinformation campaigns--to influence the competitive space? How have governments, the private sector, and civil society responded to this threat? What more can be done? And what do all these conditions mean for future U.S. Air Force and joint force training and operations?
Report Jul 19, 2021 Combating Foreign Disinformation on Social Media: Study Overview and Conclusions Disinformation campaigns on social media pose a nuanced threat to the United States, but the response remains ad hoc and uncoordinated. This overview of a five-volume series presents ways to better prepare for this new age of information warfare.
Report Jul 19, 2021 Chinese Disinformation Efforts on Social Media The authors identify key Chinese practices and the supporting infrastructure and conditions that successful social media disinformation campaigns require, concluding that China is using Taiwan as a test bed for developing attack vectors.
Journal Article May 19, 2021 Exploring Chinese Military Thinking on Social Media Manipulation Against Taiwan This article addresses a gap in the current policy discussion, provides evidence of Chinese military planning for covert manipulation of Taiwanese social media, and explores how its interest in and tactics for social media manipulation have evolved over time.
Journal Article May 18, 2021 Chinese Bomber Flights Around Taiwan: For What Purpose? After conducting two strategic bomber flights around Taiwan in late 2016, Beijing significantly stepped up its operational tempo with at least another five flights circumnavigating the island in mid-2017.
Journal Article May 14, 2021 Cognitive Domain Operations: The PLA's New Holistic Concept for Influence Operations As information becomes ever more central for Chinese warfighting, the People's Liberation Army is developing a new concept for psychological warfare in the information era called "cognitive domain operations."
Journal Article May 14, 2021 Borrowing a Boat Out to Sea: The Chinese Military's Use of Social Media for Influence Operations The Chinese military is positioning itself as one of the leading actors for hostile Chinese influence operations on social media. The PLA uses social media for covert hostile political interference operations targeting foreign countries.
Report Nov 30, 2020 Human Aspects of Air Force Operations: The Roles of Social, Cultural, and Political Knowledge and Skills in the Full Spectrum of Multidomain Operations The authors examine whether there is a need for a joint warfighting domain focused on human aspects of military operations and consider how sociocultural knowledge and skills could be better integrated into conventional Air Force operations.
Report Mar 16, 2020 Detecting Malign or Subversive Information Efforts over Social Media: Scalable Analytics for Early Warning The authors examine scalable analytic means to detect malign or subversive information efforts. The report has operational relevance to the U.S. government and may also benefit other researchers and social media companies dealing with malign actors.