Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda
The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It. Speaker: Paul, C. (RAND). Date: July 2016. Dr. Christopher Paul is a Senior Social Scientist working out of RAND’s Pittsburgh office. Prior to joining RAND full-time in July of 2002, he worked at RAND as adjunct staff for six […]
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How Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media
How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument. Speaker: King, G. (Harvard). Date: July 2016. Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University — one of 24 with the title of University Professor, Harvard’s most distinguished faculty position. He is based in the Department […]
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Info OPs Countermeasures to Anti-Area/Access Denial
Information Operations Countermeasures to Anti-Area/Access Denial (A2/AD). Speaker: Wieck, B. MAJ (Army). Date: July 2016. MAJ Wieck attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, earned a Master’s Degree in Education at George Fox University, and is currently assigned to the 152nd Theater Information Operations Group in Camp Parks, CA. During his 20+ years of military […]
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The Strategic Uses of Ambiguity in Cyberspace
The Strategic Uses of Ambiguity in Cyberspace. Speaker: Libicki, M. (Naval Academy). Date: July 2016. Martin Libicki (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley 1978) holds the Richard Keyser Distinguished Professor of Cyber Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy. He wrote three commercially published books, Cyberspace in War and Peace (USNI Press, forthcoming autumn 2016), Conquest in Cyberspace: National […]
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Tom Rieger’s Breaking the Fear Barrier Video
Breaking the Fear Barrier and Creating a Culture of Courage. Breaking the Fear Barrier Video of NSI’s President Tom Rieger giving a barrier presentation to a large government organization. In his presentation, Tom discusses typical barriers due to fear from organizational issues such as low engagement, turnover, performance management system not working, etc. Most of […]
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Identifying Predictive Gray Zone Indicators
Identifying Predictive Gray Zone Indicators Through People’s Values. Speaker: MacNulty, C. (DoD Consultant). Date: July 2016. Christine MacNulty has forty years experience as a consultant in long-term strategic -planning for concepts as well as organizations, futures studies, foresight, and technology forecasting, technology assessment and related areas, as well as socio-cultural change. For the last twenty […]
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Risk and Ambiguity in the Gray Zone
Risk and Ambiguity in the Gray Zone. Author | Editor: Wright, N. (University of Birmingham & Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Risk and ambiguity are central to activities in the Gray Zone. Policymakers can manipulate risk, and use it as a tool for deterrence or escalation management. They can also manipulate ambiguity. In the Gray […]
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Managing the Gray Zone is a Gray Matter Challenge
Managing the Gray Zone is a Gray Matter Challenge. Speaker: Monroe, M. (Army University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies). Date: July 2016. From 03/28 to 06/03/2016 15 students participated in a nine-week Command and General Staff College Red Teaming elective. In the final exercise the class spent seven days studying gray zone concepts and […]
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Countering Adversaries without going to War
The Power to Coerce: Countering Adversaries without going to War. Speaker: The Honorable David C. Gompert (Naval Academy, RAND). Date: July 2016. The Honorable David C. Gompert is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Senior Fellow of the RAND Corporation, and member of several boards of directors. Mr. Gompert was Principal […]
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Strategic Communication and the Gray Zone
Strategic Communication and the Gray Zone: The Holy Trinity of Narrative, Ideology and Framing. Speaker: Ruston, S. (Arizona State). Abstract Date: June 2016. Arizona State University’s Center for Strategic Communication conducts research on strategic communication challenges in the public sector, and has a long history of contribution to USG and DOD efforts in understanding narratives […]
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