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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
Good God yes. We need to fight them on every front. Social media is a combo of two of the four C's in C4&I computers and commo with psyops and a CA element thrown in. Not only should we combat it, we should exploit it, build profiles, tracing etc and guess what, we have the tools. The problem is with that it does not get big military contracts and big money. Also the pentagon is slow at adapting to UW in general and new technology to boot. Get a psychologist familiar with the culture to build profiles etc from them at the least. They have to post from someplace, track them, see if they move around and what patterns you can build. The possibility's go on and on in my mind. Hell hack their sites and post false info, play dirty. Set them against each other using their own sites and hackers. Perhaps the pentagon doesn't play dirty but I sure as hell do.
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Okie IMO Pentagon and any Administration will never adapt or accept UW. I can tell you just like in AFG they will always call is FID. What we are doing inside of Iraq currently is FID. U.S. Military Forces are helping the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) by Training, Assisting and Advising them to combat this ISIS element(s) inside their country. I wish SF Groups and Battalions and ODA would view what they are doing as UW without it being told to them. But that is NOT the case. I lived it and got pissed at my leadership for having conventional goggles on.
Now back to topic. As Snowden showed America, it is very easy to “follow” you online. To “looking” at anyone’s “Tweets” (Twits) on Twiter is easy with COT social media visualization tools like NodeXL and Gephi.
Yet the issue is IMO, we as Americans can’t think on their level. Yes we can say we can, but IMO we cannot. This plays to conducting a Social Media IO campaign, you can hire people to read Tweets (Twits) or SM Posts on an Islamic SM Sites. But truly knowing what they think, their faith, their motivations, etc all play into this IO Campaign. The other issue IMO is leadership not understanding SM and knowing how to use it. Even if you get some hacker (25D/35Q) or young MISO (SMART) person to “clue” in the leadership, the leadership still doesn’t get it. Yes you can hire people to translate what is written, but still IMO it would be hard to conduct a counter-OI Campaign on any Muslim movement like ISIS (IS).
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
See, that is mastery of the Art.
We don't shoot him, we get his brothers or the locals to do it for us.
TR
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Yes that should be the plan behind it all.