Information Dominance

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http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/comment/0,7495,1118403,00.html

Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, the US has sought not just to influence but to control all information, from both friend and foe

David Miller
Thursday January 8, 2004
The Guardian

"Information dominance" came of age during the conflict in Iraq. It is a little discussed but highly significant part of the US government strategy of "full spectrum dominance", integrating propaganda and news media into the military command structure more fundamentally than ever before.
In the past, propaganda involved managing the media. Information dominance, by contrast, sees little distinction between command and control systems, propaganda and journalism. They are all types of "weaponized information" to be deployed. As strategic expert Colonel Kenneth Allard noted, the 2003 attack on Iraq "will be remembered as a conflict in which information fully took its place as a weapon of war".

Nor is information dominance something dreamt up by the Bush White House. It is a mainstream US military doctrine that is also embraced in the UK. According to US army intelligence there are already 15 information dominance centres in the US, Kuwait and Baghdad.
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Related article on contemporary Psyops:
Truth From These Podia
http://www.notinourname.net/downloads/gardiner-truth.pdf

Summary of strategic influence, perception management, information warfare and psychological operations in Gulf II
Sam Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired). October 8, 2003
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1. Thanks, this is the funniest thing I 've read today.

Dick waving about propaganda.
Let's put a Tiger-Team(tm) right on it.

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2. Thanks!

There's no WAY you had as much fun reading it as I did posting it!