Operational Cyberpsychology: Adapting a Special Operations Model for Cyber Operations
Author: Dr. Jason Spitaletta (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) Invited Perspective Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO project page. This paper conceptualizes operational cyberpsychology as a field that supports missions intended to project power in and through cyberspace […]
Continue ReadingAn Agenda for Disinformation Research
Speaker(s): Garland, J. (Santa Fe Institute) Date: 20 July 2021 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Joshua Garland (Applied Complexity Fellow, Santa Fe Institute) as part of its SMA IIJO Speaker Series. Dr. Garland defined disinformation as “false misleading or inaccurate information disseminated with the intent to deceive.” Disinformation must be countered because it undermines individuals’ […]
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Cognitive Defense of the Joint Force in a Digitizing World
Author: Dr. Nicholas Wright (Georgetown University, University College London (UCL), Intelligent Biology and New America) Report Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO project page. How can we defend the humans in the Joint Force—and its key support networks—from adversarial […]
Continue ReadingStrategic Influence: Applying the Principles of Unconventional Warfare in Peace
Author(s): Jones, R. (United States Special Operations Command) Invited Perspective Preview “The most important aspect of our containment strategy is that it serves to contain ourselves,” former President Dwight Eisenhower reportedly observed after he had left office. Perhaps the greatest problem facing the United States in the post-Cold War era is not our waning ability […]
Continue ReadingEmerging Neuroscience and Technology (NeuroS/T): Current and Near-Term Risks and Threats to US—and Global—Biosecurity
Author(s): Giordano, J. (Georgetown University; US Naval War College); DiEuliis, D. (National Defense University) Invited Perspective Preview There is increasing interest and effort in developing improved tools and methods through which political, military, and intelligence operations can influence the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns of peer competitors and adversaries. The brain sciences are affording new […]
Continue ReadingAssessments of Operations in the Information Environment for the Eastern Mediterranean and South China Sea
Authors: Howard Lee, Dr. Jumanne Donahue, Dr. David Hunter-Chester, Neil Sleevi, and Nicole Jobe (TRADOC G-2) Report Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO project page. In support of the USAF and the SMA, the TRADOC G-2 Modeling and Simulations […]
Continue ReadingOn Education and Training for Operations in the Information Environment
Authors: Dr. Alex Levis (George Mason University) Invited Perspective Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO project page. The Services and the Joint Staff provide both professional military education as well as academic education through the various schools, colleges and […]
Continue ReadingEscalation Management in 21st Century Operations in the Information Environment
Authors: Dr. Lawrence Kuznar (NSI, Inc.) and Carl Hunt (US Army, Retired) Invited Perspective Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO project page. We argue that the concept of escalation thresholds remains salient in national security and may be even […]
Continue ReadingRetransmitting the Caliphate
Authors: Dr. Haroro Ingram (The George Washington University Program on Extremism), Dr. Craig Whiteside (US Naval War College Monterey) and Dr. Charlie Winter (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, ExTrac) Invited Perspective Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO […]
Continue ReadingThe Three N Approach to Strategies for United States Government Information Operations
Authors: Dr. Karl Kaltenthaler (University of Akron/Case Western Reserve) and Dr. Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland) Invited Perspective Preview This report supported SMA’s Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the IIJO project page. This paper seeks to answer the following question: What can we learn from […]
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