The Information Equilibrium

The Domestic Cognitive War – Disinformation and Propaganda Campaign   A few days ago, the Atlantic magazine published a story, built on anonymous sources accusing President Trump of condemning our military.     What is most disturbing and dystopian are the likes of former Admiral James Stavridish (former NATO commander, and US citizen) pushing these pure lies, disinformation , and propaganda .   The Admiral wrote that “he” went to cemeteries?   What does that mean? I along with many other servicemen, civilians and our President have also visited our heroes.   But we do not push pure propaganda to undermine America or a presidency.     Seems Admiral James Stavridish does not mind pushing Chinese and discredited disinformation , by repeating the lies and then justifying them as fact by noting that GEN Kelly (former White House Chief of Staff) did not deny the lies?).     Using that kind of warped logic, I guess since GEN Kelly also does not deny Adm Stavridis is not a l

Proactive Influence Operations & the Broken Paradigm of DIME     I noted a few weeks back I’d have a blog on influence operations.   The reason for this blog post is because I’ve seen the term “influence operations” bucketized into a bin that equates it mostly with psychological or military information support operations (PsyOPs or MISO).   The objective of this post is to provide a different perspective of what influence operations encompass. If we accept my broader premise, proactive influence operations can and will serve as one of the most powerful tools we employ in the Cognitive Domain.   It will also mean the end of the D iplomacy,  I nformation ,  M ilitary,  and Economics (or DIME) model.   The Cognitive Domain is the primary battle ground between freedom, independence and opportunity and tyranny that is exemplified by our great power competitors. The secondary intent of expanding the view of what entails influence operations – is so that we can actually compete

As the media/Democrats try to tar and feather AG Barr, and tell you that President Trump is trying to "deflect" attention from Covid-19, let's compare the evidence.   Trump first - what was the basis of the nearly four years of FISA warrants, the Mueller investigation, and impeachment, Flynn case, etc.? - An unverified dossier , paid, for by an opponent's campaign. That is now proven to be completely false. Period .   What is the basis for investigating the Obama administration? -           Unmasking (legal), but note the timelines, and leaking the classified call to two or more papers (illegal)   -           Missing 302 on Flynn -           No Counter-intelligence briefing to Trump campaign, only Democrats   -         Use   of Invalidated dossier – of RUSSIAN propaganda – by the DNI, Dir CIA, Dir FBI, Schiff, Mueller, etc. – remember Intel Community tradecraft 101 – validate source   -           DOJ IG inspection turning up fraud, and other material issues across ov

Advancing a Nightmare – not the American Dream - The Strategy of the Democrat’s Radial Socialist Left for America! The strategy is emerging from the dust out of the Democrats lame response to the Covid19 pandemic.   Partisan Impeachment Forever to hide the Fraud & Lies – First, while impeaching the President in a sham Stalinist Show Trial – they ignored the events occurring in Wuhan, as they did in Hong Kong and Taiwan.    Hell bent on impeaching the President – the Democrats under Nancy and Chuck – wanted to “tar and feather” this administration for purely partisan purposes, using lies, deceit, fake whistleblowers, and a legion of unelected bureaucrats that thought too highly of themselves.   And in the end, we saw the most partisan impeachment in history, marked by a celebration by the fanatical power mongering left with Nancy drooling in glee as she handed out $10K gold pens in celebration.   Now that the whole Collusion scam is blowing up in their face faster than Adam

We must ask the simple question. Why did Taiwan, Hong Kong and S. Korea respond quickly and protect against the spread of the virus, yet our IC did not report or respond (at least what is in the open) until late January 2020?   And worse, if we did know, but we over classified, the reporting was irrelevant and useless as the information – if provided – was not on time nor useful to drive proactive efforts to protect our nation. Second, the delay in understanding and responding to the massive Chinese disinformation campaign was a secondary blemish at first.   In this case the response has been effective.   Cultures protect themselves. It is not because the professionals are not doing their job.   It is because the culture (policy) and structure (organization) do not enable action nor innovation.    Open sources began reporting in mid-December or earlier, but our IC is geared to react, not to drive proactive operations to preclude impact.   It was built for I&W – indication