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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.
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Saturday Jan 21, 2023
(IWS5) Trust
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Last part is a refresher for INW students -- consonance and resonance, but for this course applying to missions intending to deceive, persuade, inform.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
(IWS4) Societal Capacity Against Disinformation and Subversion
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
(IWS1) Information and Strategy
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
LLOs and other two readings discussed in seminar.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
(INW11) Social Media and the Brain
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
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)
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Influence Tradecraft
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
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.
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Influence Tools and Networks
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Tools, networks, ways, and means are taught through case study summaries.
- Soviet dissidents' 'glasnost' campaigns
- Genghis Khan's 'szalámitaktika' campaigns
- Harriet Tubman's leveraging of U.S. Army
- British support of Arab revolt (WWI)
- Kaiser's support of Lenin (WWI)
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Influence Strategy
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
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.
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Narrative Warfare
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
- first and flood
- 'dietrologia' (Italian for search for forces behind events--also further reflects on 'saudade' from last week)
- 'glasnost'
- trust building
- visa programs (for subtle amplification and growing of followers of fellow-traveler influencers)
- trust warfare (science and medicine)
- astroturfing
- entryism (in reference to a supposed Trotskyism tactic)
- induce reckless success (stretch the enemy thin through false narratives that they are 'doing' better than they actually are)
- weaponized translation (to better reach audiences in authoritarian states, sometimes)
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Ch`i and Metis (AY2023SLFC21)
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
LLOs, discussion in plenary, seminars.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
SLFC15: Narrative and Warfare
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
LLOs, discussions in plenary, seminars.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Narrative and Great Power Competition (AY2023SLFC19)
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
LLOs, discussions in plenary, seminars.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
SLFC14: Strategic Narrative
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
LLOs, discussions in plenary, seminars.