Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and through the Information Environment
Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and through the Information Environment
Speaker: Paul, C. (RAND)
Date: 7 August 2018
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SMA hosted a speaker session presented by Dr. Christopher Paul (RAND) as a part of its SMA General Speaker Series. Dr. Paul spoke about how technological advances and threat use patterns have brought tremendous changes to the information environment (IE). He stated that the US Army must invest in new capabilities and practices in order to remain competitive, and we can learn from prior examples to better our future operations conducted in the IE. He reviewed his key findings, emphasizing that most gaps between the US Army baseline and “effective others” are conceptual and capacity gaps. He also presented a comparative analysis that displayed the degrees of capability of multiple states and non-state actors in various areas, in addition to common concepts and principles across the entities. To conclude, Dr. Paul provided recommendations and key takeaways for the US Army and outlined his observations of Russian efforts in and through the IE.
The full report upon which this presentation is based is available at https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1925z1.html.
Dr. Christopher Paul is a Senior Social Scientist working out of RAND's Pittsburgh office. He also teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining RAND full-time in July of 2002, he worked at RAND as adjunct staff for six years. Chris received his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA in 2001; he spent academic year 2001-02 on the UCLA statistics faculty. Chris has developed methodological competencies in comparative historical and case study approaches, quantitative analysis, and evaluation research. Current research interests include operations in and through the information environment, security cooperation, counterinsurgency, and irregular/unconventional warfare. Recent RAND reports include RR-1166/1, Dominating Duffer’s Domain: Lessons for the U.S. Marine Corps Information Operations Practitioner, PE-198, The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It, and RR-1925/1-A, Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and Through the Information Environment.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1925z1.html
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