The Information Equilibrium

Disinformation and Deception in America  1. Do our people realize they're being duped? 2. Do you really believe this has stopped? 3. With the totally biased media, even if your dead you'd see that, there are several levels of deception, lies and manipulation. Do NOT doubt there are more efforts to conduct disinformation and deception.  Why would one think the DNC or Hillary has changed? When one reads about how the voters were purposefully mislead via planted calls (see article), even though it happened sometime ago, why would the tiger (Hillary) or partner (DNC) change their stripes later in 2016, or today as she teams up with her friendly socialist Warner? The liberal and radical left elites - have always tended to tell others to do "as I say, but NOT as I do," How else could Al Gore be a jet setting multi-millionaire selling carbon credits while flying in a private jet and having a home that's 5-10X avg carbon footprint.  How else could Bernie Sa...

The Cognitive Domain, the Cognitive War and Cognitive Dissonance We have all seen or are all familiar with varied aspects of kinetic war, large and small, irregular and asymmetric.   Thankfully, the majority hasn’t had to directly participate in the actual kinetic part – but that’s a different issue you’ve seen me write about regarding the need for a wholly new form of conscription in this country. We must begin to think differently about war, its definition, and about what type of war we are fighting.   As with anything ground into history, changing such definitions does not come easily, but we must.   The major war, ongoing now for millennium plus, but never fully recognized in most literature or doctrine, is and will always be in the cognitive domain.   Cognitive War is the battle of ideas and ideology, and requires a substantially different approach – and set of intelligence and foundation data than kinetic action. BUT – this is a big but – the in...

I write and post frequently on the need for an overhaul of major segments of our federal government, primarily, the IC and DoD, but other elements as well - to advance a more proactive approach in the Cognitive Domain.  As the real war - is a war of ideas and ideology. It is a war of peace vs tyranny, that mankind tends to quickly forget about.   The continued rise of dictators, despots and terrorists over the years is nothing new! Nor are the follow-on kinetic battles and fall of dictators over the years after the world recognizes the cancer.  But one would think and hope we'd have some lessons learned.  But our notoriously short attention span in the United States, leaves us wanting for a truly strategic - cross administration - strategy that is bipartisan in nature that promotes facts, features and benefits of our way of life.   Developing capabilities, capacity and a strategic proactive operational implementation plan in the Cognitive Domain re...

Hollywood - China is buying it's way into our culture, and one of the prinary means of influence, information and communication.  If anyone believes this is a financial investment vs another manuver in Cognitive Warfare/Gray Zone, then there's some land I'd like to sell, they say its 'rich.' Whether Hollywood,  IP, technology,  etc. we remain mostly naive and unaware.  And the PC socialist bent in Hollywood needs only a slight tweak to start further dividing America, undermining our institutions,  and advancing attacks and outright assassination of our law enforcement officials, advancing open borders,  etc. In other words,  driving democracy off the cliff as we eat our popcorn and pay for the chaos. Seem a bit of a stretch? Not really,  if one's efforts are to inflict a thousand cuts. Our country is in a cognitive war that's been underway for centuries.  One that pits freedom vs tyranny.  Controlling the narrative is a primary...

The United States of America remains the shining light on the hill for millions of people around the world.  Our ideals and values remain a primary reason - but we need to reinvigorate the message and drive proactive influence in the Cognitive Domain.  We can do that by highlighting those ideals and values around the world including: Freedom of Worship, Freedom of speech, Freedom of Opportunity, and Freedom from Tyranny.  After the Cold War, we lost our focus, and unfortunately in our typical narrow minded, quick satisfaction way, we dismantled much of our capabilities that advanced our narrative of peace, freedom and prosperity, focus on human rights, and focus on battling tyranny.  9-11 further changed our focus, and with that we got lost in the perpetual tactical moment and forgot about the strategic message, the strategic narrative, of why our country was acting and what our overall strategy and intent was in moving into Iraq and Afghanistan. We lost our focu...

Art, who needs it. Taliban doesn't. ISIS doesn't. Now, whoa, Democrats don't??? While its always good to try to build ties to different cultures, I think I'll pass on having goon squads policing what we see, say, hear or think. George Orwell, you can have your 1984 back, we need help now! If you think my posts about socialism = communism are of concern.  Think not. There's a reason I highlight issues. The covering of art, removal of statues is yet another example of how tyranny creeps into over take democracy, freedom and independence. If you have a different policy or opinion these days, only one party is continually intolerant.  Fact. Slowly but surely you'll first be called ignorant, then racist, then physically attacked. Why? Intimidation works.  Now, like Joseph Stalin, we need to erase history. Why? We've learned from history. But that's beside the point. The ultimate goal is group think, and if you don't join - well on Co...

Information Operations – Where are We?  Today, over three years after the issuance of the Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment (SOIE: June 2016), we remain perpetually reactive, under invested, woefully behind, fixated on kinetic solutions and continue to operate in our “Titanium Cylinders of Sub-Excellence” ©  I recently retired from the Federal Government, after thirty-plus years in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. This was a purposeful move, as I find the IC and DoD are losing significant opportunity and throwing away potential advantage to drive proactive influence operations and predictive analysis in the Information Environment (IE) – that could offer major advantages to US global position, enhance our coalitions, and significantly enhance our national security posture now and generations into the future.  The Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment (SOIE) https://toinformistoinfluence.com/2016/06/27/dod-s...