Educational podcasts for the strategist. The views expressed on these podcasts are Dr. Howard Gambrill Clark’s personal views alone. The views and findings do not imply endorsement by any government or private entity. Nothing in these podcasts represent the views of any government or government-affiliated organization, private corporation, university, college, school, institution, or other entity foreign or domestic, private or public.
0:00 - limits of analysis of social media opinions
4:00 - limits of blind disinformation to affect the mind
8:54 - five new pillars of disinformation:
1) engage prefrontal cortex as little as possible
2) master platforms
3) exploit conspiracy-theory phenomena
4) target subconscious
5) target limbic system (especially outrage and trust)
Consonance: Identify stabilizing civil-society/governance networks whose goals are in consonance with those of the United States.
Resonance: Subtly/silently/invisibly/distantly enable/leverage/strengthen/amplify consonant networks.
Tools, networks, ways, and means are taught through case study summaries.
1. Reflexive control: Influence an adversary to want to make decisions designed by the protagonist--without adversary being aware of manipulation.
2. Zugzwang: German. Zug: to move. Zwang: compulsion. Compel a target's countermove that will weaken the target's position (target subverts itself).
3. Telemachus: Greek. Warfare from afar--conducting influence from another country or continent.
4. Slow burn: Thousand subtle pricks. Each disparate tactic is indirect, subtle, unthreatening--unlikely raise alarms. In its totality, there are eventually strategic effects.
5. Stealth/deception: Because influence is by definition indirect and insensible, deception and stealth are often vital to successful influence.
