The Department of Defense developed the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) to increase the amount of national and theater level information provided to deployed forces, resolving some shortcomings in information dissemination identified during the Gulf...
Strong public affairs activities and operational support promote a greater understanding of the Army and its contribution to the nation, relevant in obtaining international legitimacy and support. The problem is that current Army Public Affairs...
This monograph examines the role of contemporary media, especially television, in the Middle East and the United States. The object is to highlight similarities and differences, with an eye to selective comparative analysis. To preclude voluminous...
The organization and functions of the unit known as a combat psychological detachment is detailed in this document. The detachment headquarters section (command, administrative, supply, and transportation functions), intelligence section...
The US Global War on Terror is actually a Global Counterinsurgency as defined by FM 3-24 and Al Qaida is the global insurgent currently opposing the US. Al Qaida is held up as the global insurgent through the use of their own declarations in...
The media influence ongoing and future military operations by functioning as a sort of filter (or "ether ") within the Clausewitzian Trinity, which coalesces the military, the people (public), and the government (policy makers). The relationship...
INDEX of Reports Compiled by the G-2 section; HQ. U.S. Forces, China Theater
SOVIET REPORT
CHINESE REPORT (KMT)
CHINESE REPORT (CCP)
GERMAN REPORT
JAPANESE REPORT
SOVIET PERSONALITIES
CHINESE PERSONALITIES (KMT)
CHINESE PERSONALITIES...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Mrs. Victoria Clarke, initiated the embedded news media program. The intent was for the public to see directly through the media what happened at the...
Wartime correspondents are a valid and critical aspect to obtaining the overall picture of war and military conflicts. This paper examined the roles of embedded and unilateral reporters during wartime and answers the two questions; how do the media...
This study examines the tactical intelligence effort for Operations RESTORE HOPE and CONTINUE HOPE in Somalia from December 1992 to 31 March 1994. The doctrinal principles for intelligence support to force projection operations provide the...
This document discusses communications and control of public opinion in Germany. The following contents are: mechanism of control (propaganda agencies of the government, German-dominated international organization, etc.); media of propaganda...
The following report has been prepared by the chiefs of the various branches of the G3 Psychological Warfare Division and by officers from the First Loudspeaker and Leaflet Company. It is a chronological list of historical events pertaining to...
Ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have underscored the necessity of conventional military forces to adequately prepare for stability and reconstruction operations (SRO) in the aftermath of major combat operations (MCO). In the case of...
This monograph examines the integration of Information Operations (IO) during Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF). As a rule, most commanders considered IO ineffective because IO was unable to respond to the complex...
United States Army Forces, Pacific, Office of the Commander-in-Chief
Psychological warfare against the Japanese homeland was conducted by the various United States and Allied commands which engaged the enemy forces in the Pacific and by other governmental agencies in the United States. This report looks at the...
This study investigates doctrine, education, and training improvements necessary to produce effective psychological operations audio, visual, and audiovisual products in sophisticated media environments. Current ongoing operations such as that in...
US participation in expeditionary operations after the end of the cold war, 1991, is indicative of a shift in national security strategy from containment to engagement. Participation is at best multinational, at its most challenging, coalition....
The emergence of social media platforms as a means of communication and information sharing marks a fundamental change to how societies interact. This new form of media played a formative role in the organization of mass uprisings and...