Is Lt. Gen. Caldwell also running propaganda/psyops operations on Charlie Sheen?

[DV]

We don't know enough about mental illness to properly say Charlie is mentally ill.  You guys realize that physicians write prescriptions for people for a living and so they need to find things to write prescriptions for.  Is Charlie excentric?  Yes.  That doesn't make him mentally ill.  Anybody can say anybody is mentally ill. there is nothing objective about it.  It's just subjective bias.  I don't think he's mentally ill, not by a long shot.

[chrisfromchi]

You're right, it's all a big Conspiracy.  "They"  forced Charlie to do drugs, drink like a fish, have sex with porn stars and hookers, and run off at the mouth like a madman.

The guy was unstable and had problems long before he got involved with 9-11 Truth.

Do I dislike Charlie?  No, not at all.  Do I want him to clean himself up before it's too late?  Sure.  Do I think he's a good spokesman for 9-11 Truth?  Absolutely not.

1 million in 24 hours.
http://twitter.com/charliesheen

/shrug

i'm more in the dunno lets see how the hand plays out category on 911....but i'm actually okay with a "winning" lifestyle.

[Monkeypox]

1 million in 24 hours.
http://twitter.com/charliesheen

/shrug

i'm more in the dunno lets see how the hand plays out category.

The guy is a train wreck.  If you were the general public, would you listen to anything Charlie had to say at this point?  Be honest.

[chrisfromchi]

The guy is a train wreck.  If you were the general public, would you listen to anything Charlie had to say at this point?  Be honest.

actually yes.

[decepticon]

The guy is a train wreck.  If you were the general public, would you listen to anything Charlie had to say at this point?  Be honest.

Oh the irony  

they are eating it up like sheeple. this is the #2 trend on yahoo all day !!! WELCOME TO AMERICA !!!

[Monkeypox]

actually yes.

Wow.

[DV]

The guy is a train wreck.  If you were the general public, would you listen to anything Charlie had to say at this point?  Be honest.

people listen to glenn beck and he's certifiable

[chrisfromchi]

Wow.

20 minutes with president gone up like 400k views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU

[Monkeypox]

people listen to glenn beck and he's certifiable

There is no comparison between the two.

[DV]

There is no comparison between the two.

precisely my point

[Monkeypox]

20 minutes with president gone up like 400k views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU

People love good fiction.

[tritonman]

Glenda Beckies purpose is to stir up as much hatred from the right wing sheep as possible , he is trying to stoke the revolution for TPTB.  While I am no Charlie fan as you know, He is in no way comparable.  Charlie has his problems while Beck is pure EVIL

[redeux]

....but i'm actually okay with a "winning" lifestyle.

winning on all levels.....

[chrisfromchi]

People love good fiction.

Brian Williams on Letterman Go to 1:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czgu8IbRJUE

[Monkeypox]

winning on all levels.....

Winning?  Winning what?

Charlie Sheen is a Sideshow Freak.  People in our prurient society love to watch Sideshow Freaks destroy themselves for the entertainment value - they don't follow them.

[DV]

Brian Williams on Letterman Go to 1:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czgu8IbRJUE

This guy is a clear denier.  people on the "crazy conspiracy theorist" side of an event are obviously goign to be passionate, seeing as how they believe such atricities have occurred.  People on the non believing side have no reason to be so passionate in their denials unless they are actually trying to sell their BS, like Williams is doing here. 

[DV]

Winning?  Winning what?

Charlie Sheen is a Sideshow Freak.  People in our prurient society love to watch Sideshow Freaks destroy themselves for the entertainment value - they don't follow them.

not true, people follow all sorts of side show freaks.  most successful politicians could be categorized as that.  Name one successful politician in the last 2 decades that wasn't exposed in some side show esque scandal.  I can't think of any.

[Dig]

At what point are we going to have real hearings and when is at least someone going to jail for this madness? This is so wrong!
Kissinger's Lt. General Mandated The Use of Military Psy-Ops On U.S. Senators!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egFfQ-nic_A

Report: CSIS Connected Lt. General William Caldwell targeted senators with psyops
General sought to manipulate VIPs in order to elicit more funding, troops, according to Rolling Stone article


Lt. Gen. William Caldwell ordered a specialized "psychological
operations" team to manipulate dignitaries visiting Afghanistan
and convince them to boost funding and troop numbers,
Rolling Stone reports.

msnbc.com
updated 1 hour 19 minutes ago 2011-02-24T13:16:19

The U.S. army reportedly deployed a specialized "psychological operations" team to help convince American legislators to boost funding and troop numbers for the war in Afghanistan.

The operation was ordered by three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, Rolling Stone Magazine reported in a story published late on Wednesday.

An officer in charge of the unit objected when he was ordered to pressure the visiting senators and was harshly reprimanded by superiors, according to the magazine.

"My job in psyops is to play with people's heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," the officer, Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, told Rolling Stone.

More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41753749/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223

Another Runaway General:
EXPOSED: Pentagon Psy-Ops/Propaganda Warfare on U.S. Senators to help Henry Kissinger's Foreign Policy Agenda

By Michael Hastings
February 23, 2011 11:55 PM ET

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.

The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops – the linchpin of U.S. strategy in the war. Over a four-month period last year, a military cell devoted to what is known as "information operations" at Camp Eggers in Kabul was repeatedly pressured to target visiting senators and other VIPs who met with Caldwell. When the unit resisted the order, arguing that it violated U.S. laws prohibiting the use of propaganda against American citizens, it was subjected to a campaign of retaliation.

"My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. "I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223

In case people are unaware of how the Pentagon regards any threat to their "Mythology" of the 9/11 lie...

From Anti_Illuminati: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=202129.msg1203984#msg1203984
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/Repository/FM307/FM3-07.pdf

Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5862


A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."

Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs --- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad.

This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach --- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning.

FULL REPORT: http://cryptome.org/covert-blogs.zip

THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch this video, ASAP--and archive it with youtube downloader:
LTG William Caldwell addresses 2008 Milblogging Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhmEDtPjuzs

http://www.informationdissemination.net/2008/09/army-vision-of-new-media.html
_____________________________________________
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/fastsearch?tag=Stability+Operations

More on FM 3.07: Stability Operations

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) International Security Program (ISP) hosted Lt. General William B. Caldwell, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Combined Arms Center and Ft. Leavenworth; to introduce Field Manual 3-07: Stability Operations yesterday. SWJ was able to attend and found the panel discussion very informative as well as interesting. We hope to post some highlights from the discussion here in the near future. In the meantime CSIS has posted video and audio at their web page for this event. The army's new stability operations doctrine calls for a comprehensive approach to stabilization efforts that envisions integration of a variety of stakeholders not traditionally combined as full partners in complex contingencies. The CSIS panel discussion included Ambassador John Herbst. Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, United States Department of State; Ambassador Dick Solomon, President, United States Institute for Peace; Ambassador Michael Hess, Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development; Samuel A. Worthington, CEO and president of InterAction, Nathan Freier, a senior fellow at CSIS, and Rick Barton, codirector of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project.

Posted in SWJ Blog on October 8, 2008 8:49 AM

[Monkeypox]

not true, people follow all sorts of side show freaks.  most successful politicians could be categorized as that.  Name one successful politician in the last 2 decades that wasn't exposed in some side show esque scandal.  I can't think of any.

I give up, I really do.

Enjoy your big "win"  people.

I'll keep living in the real world.

[Valerius]

I give up, I really do.

Enjoy your big "win"  people.

I'll keep living in the real world.

Never give up

[redeux]

Winning?  Winning what?

Charlie Sheen is a Sideshow Freak.  People in our prurient society love to watch Sideshow Freaks destroy themselves for the entertainment value - they don't follow them.

winning.... by telling the establish to go f*ck themselves, he has broken the chains of his oppression, he understands his power, and is running a gauntlet on these bastards, don't you get it? the system must have you CONFORM to it, the minute you tell it to f*ck off it can't take that input, it scrams the reactor.......... that is epic winning..... this shit has you so bound up in your legalism that you can't process the info...... when the establishment can't f*cking control you, they build the biggest house of cards they can against you, slander you, use make believe that everyone thinks just like they are saying..... Sheen has devastated their ego's ripped up their cards and set them ablaze......

[DV]

I give up, I really do.

Enjoy your big "win"  people.

I'll keep living in the real world.

I'm not professing to win anything.  I'm just saying you are over selling this.  even if charlie was crazy, bat s*** crazy, what difference does it make?  does it mean he's wrong?  No.  He is a talented guy with unbelievable resources and a platform unlike what other people have.  Your basis for discrediting him is just ad homynum.  

[decepticon]

wo dig that was out of left field. are you suggesting someone is on the payroll ?

[redeux]

wo dig that was out of left field. are you suggesting someone is on the payroll ?

ROUGE BRASS.......

Dig for the win........

[Dig]

The Battle for Reality: News and Counter-News
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=172551.msg1024979#msg1024979

[tritonman]

wo dig that was out of left field. are you suggesting someone is on the payroll ?

I do not think that Charlie is on their payroll.  I just think he is a bit messed up.  

[attietewd]

posted by Monkeypox: Charlie Sheen is a Sideshow Freak.  People in our prurient society love to watch Sideshow Freaks destroy themselves for the entertainment value - they don't follow them.

Is that what you think the truth movement is, following SOMEBODY?  So you are saying no one should follow Charlie......so then that would mean there is someone we are SUPPOSED to follow?  Actually I hope nobody follows Charlie, or Alex, or any other human being.  I thought it was a truth movement.  And it's pretty obvious that you are speaking from your own experience that you love to watch "sideshow freaks" destroy themselves. Well you should have your fill 'cause that's what Hollywood and the music industry is filled with. And it's the same mentality of people IMO that enjoy watching another human being destroy themselves that I am up against in this battle against the NWO.  Man I hope you are a disinfo agent, I would hate to think you are representative of a truther.  I know you don't represent me.

[Dig]

wo dig that was out of left field. are you suggesting someone is on the payroll ?

on this site? who knows. if they are, perhaps they are getting educated on what is going on so...win-win (hehe)

it just seems to me that whenever Charlie Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell, or any other celebrity exposes another layer of the onion concerning 9/11 there are over 100,000 news stories and sound bites that mysteriously get interjected into every facet of society.

Seems almost like a well coordinated military operation from a 10,000 foot level observation.

And now that we know Lt. Gen. Caldwell conducted such operations on US Senators, what would be stopping him from doing this to celebs like Charlie Sheen?

[Monkeypox]

Is that what you think the truth movement is, following SOMEBODY?  So you are saying no one should follow Charlie......so then that would mean there is someone we are SUPPOSED to follow?  Actually I hope nobody follows Charlie, or Alex, or any other human being.  I thought it was a truth movement.  And it's pretty obvious that you are speaking from your own experience that you love to watch "sideshow freaks" destroy themselves. Well you should have your fill 'cause that's what Hollywood and the music industry is filled with. And it's the same mentality of people IMO that enjoy watching another human being destroy themselves that I am up against in this battle against the NWO.  Man I hope you are a disinfo agent, I would hate to think you are representative of a truther.  I know you don't represent me.

Wow, you're really pulling things out of nowhere, aren't you?

[Dig]

I do not think that Charlie is on their payroll.  I just think he is a bit messed up.  

Who said anything about that? I think he was suggesting that I was suggesting that some members were due to the contecnt of the post exposing a sliver of Lt. Gen Caldwell's operations.

As far as some members being on payrolls, I have no clue. Perhaps someone (if they are on a payroll) will blow the whistle about it. Until then, I am just showing MSM articles and white papers about the new "softwar" weapons the pentagon feels free to use on domestic citizens (like senators and celebrities) without any apprehension whatsoever.

[adissenter2]

Charlie?

MAYDAY!  MAYDAY!  MAYDAY!

So hear is the skinny on this news.  CIA agent shoots two ISI guys from his vehicle, from behind them.  The story has unraveled.  It is now the center of international controversy involving Russia, Pakistan,.......Don't believe the US media on this.

false flag....military invasion of Pakistan...........the Pakistanis saying the West is waiting for total economic collapse.  read and research this.  This is not a small issue, it is not fringe.  this is real, this is now.
 
 
Raymond Davis: TF373 and CIA Spy
 
Google and research TF 373 (also referred to as TASK FORCE 373)
 
The most ominous point in this SVR report is “Pakistan’s ISI stating that top-secret CIA documents found in Davis’s possession point to his, and/or TF373, providing to al Qaeda terrorists “nuclear fissile material” and “biological agents”, which they claim are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war in order to re-establish the West’s hegemony over a Global economy that is warned is just months away from collapse,” the paper added.

[Dig]

Charlie?

MAYDAY!  MAYDAY!  MAYDAY!

So hear is the skinny on this news.  CIA agent shoots two ISI guys from his vehicle, from behind them.  The story has unraveled.  It is now the center of international controversy involving Russia, Pakistan,.......Don't believe the US media on this.

false flag....military invasion of Pakistan...........the Pakistanis saying the West is waiting for total economic collapse.  read and research this.  This is not a small issue, it is not fringe.  this is real, this is now.
 
 
Raymond Davis: TF373 and CIA Spy
 
Google and research TF 373 (also referred to as TASK FORCE 373)
 
The most ominous point in this SVR report is “Pakistan’s ISI stating that top-secret CIA documents found in Davis’s possession point to his, and/or TF373, providing to al Qaeda terrorists “nuclear fissile material” and “biological agents”, which they claim are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war in order to re-establish the West’s hegemony over a Global economy that is warned is just months away from collapse,” the paper added.

So give us a link to the comprehensive new thread on this already. watcha waitin for?

[tritonman]

Who said anything about that? I think he was suggesting that I was suggesting that some members were due to the contecnt of the post exposing a sliver of Lt. Gen Caldwell's operations.

As far as some members being on payrolls, I have no clue. Perhaps someone (if they are on a payroll) will blow the whistle about it. Until then, I am just showing MSM articles and white papers about the new "softwar" weapons the pentagon feels free to use on domestic citizens (like senators and celebrities) without any apprehension whatsoever.

For the record I do not think that decepticon is on their payroll either.

[Dig]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhmEDtPjuzs

http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/iosphere/09summer/iosphere_summer09_caldwell.pdf

Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV On New Media in Military Operations

An Interview with Commander of the US Army’s Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth Kansas

Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV


Editor’s Note: This interview was conducted by the editor of IO Sphere with LTG Caldwell via email exchange. Mr. Anton Menning assisted with the completion of the interview. Mr. Menning is a member of LTG Caldwell’s staff and co-authors numorus articles with him. We sincerely thank both of them.

IO Sphere Editor:  Sir, at IO Sphere we consider your documented views, insights, and leadership on emerging information technologies to be at the cutting edge of operational thinking. I want to first thank you for your time and for sharing your thoughts with the readers of IO Sphere.

LTG Caldwell: It’s a pleasure to engage with IO Sphere. As you are no doubt aware, today’s operational environment is very dynamic. The U.S. Army must adapt to that environment. Some traditional means of communication have become less relevant, and the rise of Web 2.0 confronts us with a fresh set of challenges and opportunities.

IO Sphere Editor: Sir, it is well known that you have strong views on emerging information technologies, including blogs, personal video sharing sites such as “youtube” and social networking media like “Facebook” and “Twitter.” You have already referred to these “New Media” technologies and capabilities as “Web 2.0.” Many military leaders express varying degrees of concern over these technologies and their application. What are your views? Should we ignore the promise and surrender to our misgivings or should we embrace these technologies and adapt them to our advantage as we confront the future?

LTG Caldwell:  Web 2.0, or social media, provides unique opportunities for interaction. One-way communication models are horse- and-buggy.   People around the world are now both consumers and contributors. The open-ended and even democratic nature of the new media allows users to bypass traditional gatekeepers such as editors and producers.  The capacity for “bypass” also allows users of new media to set agendas and to construct online communities.  For these reasons and more, it is vital for the U.S. military to actively engage in these spheres.  Our adversaries are adept at doing just that for their own purposes.  Why should we cede the high ground by ignoring or shortchanging the new media? Many of our senior leaders may be digital migrants, but it is important to remember that our young Soldiers are digital natives. They instinctively embrace the world of Web 2.0. In more ways than ever before, the new media can tell our Army’s story to the American people.  Even in a season of economic downturn, when business woes dominate the conventional news cycle, the new media allows us to continue informing the American people about the tremendous service and sacrifices of our Soldiers and their families.

IO Sphere Editor: Some senior US and allied military leaders are concerned about the operational security implications of new media technology and the possibility of disclosure of both classified and unclassified critical information to adversaries. As a supporter of the use of new media, how do you address these concerns?  

LTG Caldwell:   Operational security is an enduring concern for military operations. However, we cannot take counsel of our fears at the expense of new media applications. As always, we must strike a balance between caution and engagement. As new technologies continue to emerge, there will be even more challenges to the risk/benefit balance.  If we surrender to our fears, we surrender a big chunk of the high media ground.   Commanders accept risk in any operation. We are not talking about rejection of risk, but rather about the parameters of the risk, we’re willing to accept. With the emphasis, senior leaders are placing on Web 2.0, I remain confident the Army will find the proper balance.

IO Sphere Editor:  Many of your views about new media center on the “Strategic Communications” value inherent in the new media technologies.  Do you think there is a downside to these technologies to the extent that they involve tradeoffs of traditional control in favor of engagement and of traditional media in favor of untested and less reliable media?

LTG Caldwell: Change is a constant in life. We must embrace in fact consider it an opportunity if we are to be effective leaders.   The contemporary evolution of the news industry is simply a fact we need to adjust to.  By actively engaging the new media, we are availing ourselves of more opportunities than ever to tell the Army’s story.  Last year, a Pew Poll revealed that the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan failed to make the top 15 news stories of the year.  Even if only a snapshot, such results demonstrate an important disconnect between the American public and the life-or-death concerns of those who serve in uniform. New media can help us bridge this gap.  The American people can now digest our story without a filter.

IO Sphere Editor: In the May-June issue of Military Review Mr. Dennis Murphy, Mr. Anton Menning, and you co-authored an article titled, “Learning to Leverage New Media.”   To buttress your thesis on the importance of the new media, you referred to recent Israeli military operations in Lebanon and Gaza as examples of both good and bad use of new media.   What do you think about reporting on the recent demonstrations in Iran over disputed election results as still another and more recent example of new media’s reach?

LTG Caldwell: The new media definitely held their ground, and with an impressive degree of power.  We are learning that it has become almost impossible to stop the flow of information from a given country, especially if the population is technically adept.


Iraqi officer using computer as part of an advanced computing class Source: defenseimagery.mil


US Marine Using Tactical Computer in Kwaitt
Source: defenseimagery.mil

Even as traditional media was largely shut out, new media emerged to inform the world of events in near real time. Beyond Iran, look at the recent events in Moldova – Twitter is showing just how dynamic it is because of its ability to function across multiple platforms. We are witnessing a democratic revolution in how information is disseminated. As senior leaders, we must be familiar with new media and be aware of how it can shape and affect operations. However, there is no such thing as the proverbial free ride. We must know how to utilize new media, and we must understand its capabilities and limitations.

IO Sphere Editor: As the commander of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth Kansas you play a very important role in the education of future military leaders. What ideas or focus areas have you recently instituted to stress the importance of these technologies and their effective employment in the contemporary operational environment?

LTG Caldwell: One of our biggest programs requires all students who attend the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College to blog as a requirement for graduation. They must also complete three other outreach requirements, including writing an article for publication and submitting it, participating in a news interview (print, radio, television) and undertaking some sort of public engagement, for example formally addressing an audience. These requirements serve to educate our future leaders and to ensure they are comfortable telling the Army story.  To facilitate blogging, we founded a blog library that now has more than 40 blogs and 100,000 visits per month. It is utilized by many of our subordinate organizations to solicit feedback on public events, to disseminate information about upcoming opportunities here at CAC, and engage a broader audience on a variety of issues ranging from training for full spectrum operations to helping Soldiers stay safe when riding motorcycles.

In fact, COL Mark McKnight, the commander of Battle Command Training Program – a sort of virtual Combat Training Center – wrote a letter that was published in the August issue of Army Magazine where he described the benefits of using blogging as an organization.   He said the value of openly sharing “best practices” and “how-tos” in a transparent manner, within the constraints of operational security, helps the public understand an element of the Combined Arms Center and therefore, our Army.

Another of our subordinate organizations, the Information Operations Proponent, trains FA30’s or Information Operations specialists.  Within its curriculum, instructors teach students the basics of Web 2.0 with the understanding those specialists will often advise their superiors on the nuances of social media. An additional part of the curriculum requires the students to write a paper discussing the pros and cons of allowing Soldiers access to social media sites.  They are also instructed about how adversaries use social media to influence the American public.                                                                                    

Beyond blogging, we started a CAC YouTube page, a Twitter site and a Facebook page.  The challenge we face with much of this activity is resourcing it while simultaneously establishing sound operating procedures.   I suspect many organizations across the Department of Defense are working through some of these same issues.

Our use of new media does not stop with what I’ve already mentioned.   CAC- Training established the Army Training Network earlier this spring.  Instead of publishing a companion manual to our capstone-training manual, we’ve made the process virtual.   Through ATN, trainers throughout the Army learn best training practices across a wide field of specialties. Any Soldier or civilian with a common access card can update the site with their specific insights. The site even features a wiki that is self updated and policed by our community of users. Finally, on July 2nd, we began a pilot program that converted seven field manuals into a wiki format that will make them living, breathing documents under the rubric of Army Tactics, Techniques and Procedures, or ATTP. We plan to eventually convert more than 200 field manuals into wikis. By using a wiki, we can ensure that the lessons learned in the field are rapidly assimilated and disseminated to the operational force. Moreover, wikis allow for enhanced collaboration across the entire Army, including its civilian work force. After 90 days, we will assess the pilot program and determine a course for the way ahead with this project.

IO Sphere Editor: How do you consider the knowledge of these technologies and the ability to employ them in operations? Can effectiveness in their utilization be equated with effectively operating in the field or employing a weapon system?

LTG Caldwell:  Absolutely.   Soldiers today require core competencies that embrace the full spectrum of operations

•   from peacekeeping to the employment of kinetic means. Whatever the situation, we know that future operations will be conducted among the people. The ability to communicate across a wide variety of platforms will remain central to reaching various audiences for various reasons. We must never cede either the ground on which we choose to engage or the means.

IO Sphere Editor:   Sir, thank you for your time and your leadership on this subject. At IO Sphere, we strive to challenge our readership to think about and create solutions to many difficult and controversial subjects in Information Operations.  Your views and leadership on the use of new media in military operations are an important addition to the dialogue and we appreciate it very much.

LTG Caldwell:  Thank you for this opportunity.  I  have enjoyed  the opportunity to engage on such important subjects.

For More Information on LTG Caldwell Log on to:www.leavenworth.army.mil or http://usacac.army.mi/blog For a youtube message on blogging search youtube with-LTG Caldwell and 2008 Milblogging Conference.

Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell, IV is the Commanding General of the US Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth Kansas. He is also the Commandant of the US Army Command and General Staff College and the Director of the Joint Center for International Security Assistance. He also serves as the Deputy Commanding General for the US Army Training and Doctrine Command. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy and West Point and has served 33 years in the US Army.


Soldier from Denmark During NATO Exercise Combined Endeavor
Source: defenseimagery.mil

[JT Coyoté]

Charlie?

MAYDAY!  MAYDAY!  MAYDAY!

So hear is the skinny on this news.  CIA agent shoots two ISI guys from his vehicle, from behind them.  The story has unraveled.  It is now the center of international controversy involving Russia, Pakistan,.......Don't believe the US media on this.

false flag....military invasion of Pakistan...........the Pakistanis saying the West is waiting for total economic collapse.  read and research this.  This is not a small issue, it is not fringe.  this is real, this is now.
 
 
Raymond Davis: TF373 and CIA Spy
 
Google and research TF 373 (also referred to as TASK FORCE 373)
 
The most ominous point in this SVR report is “Pakistan’s ISI stating that top-secret CIA documents found in Davis’s possession point to his, and/or TF373, providing to al Qaeda terrorists “nuclear fissile material” and “biological agents”, which they claim are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war in order to re-establish the West’s hegemony over a Global economy that is warned is just months away from collapse,” the paper added.

We interrupt this gossip/character assassination thread... to bring you the news...

Oldyoti

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;
and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the
power which knowledge gives."
~James Madison

[Dig]

Winning the Battle of the Narrative
http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/3051winning.pdf

http://www.sumbiosis.com/images/persuasion_power_e.pdf



1.  Mapping the influence landscape

*    Identifying the key groups and subgroups

*    Analyzing influence networks

*    Identifying supporters, opponents and persuadables

*    Assessing interests

"The key is to understand what others perceive their interests to be, not what you believe they should be!"

−   Listing possible reasons for resistance

−   Listing driving and restraining forces

"People facing tough decisions experience psychological tension as opposing sets of forces push them in conflicting directions. Driving forces push targets into the direction you desire; restraining forces push them in other directions. The key is to find ways to strengthen the driving forces, weaken the restraining forces, or both."

*    Assessing alternatives (BATNAs)

2.   Shaping Perceptions of Interests

*    Altering incentives
*    Framing decisions

"Framing is the use of arguments, analogy, and metaphor to create a favorable definition of the problem to be solved and the set of potential solutions."
*    Using social influence

"People rarely make important choice independently; most people are influenced by their network of relationships and the opinion of key advisors."
(=>   Mapping the influence landscape)

*    Engaging in quid-pro-quo negotiation

"Finally, if key people cannot otherwise be brought along, it may be necessary to engage them in a this-for-that negotiation, agreeing to support a project or ini- tiative they care about in exchange for their support of yours."
 
3.  Framing Decisions

*    Invoking the common good (emphasizing collective benefits and downplaying individual costs)

*    Linking to core values

See ads for four-wheel drive cars: link with freedom and adventurous spirit

*    Heightening concerns about loss or risk

"Many people tend to be loss-averse – i.e. more sensitive to potential losses than to equivalent potential gains. Desired courses of actions should thus be cast in terms of potential gains and undesired choices in terms of potential losses."

*    Rejection and retreat

"Ask for a lot initially, and then settle for less." (?)

*    Narrowing or broadening the focus

*    Enlarging the pie

*    Neutralizing toxic issues

−     Explicitly setting them aside for future consideration

−     Making up-front commitment that allay anxiety

*    Inoculating against expected challenges

"Presenting and decisively refuting weak form of arguments immunizes audiences against the same arguments when they are advanced in more potent forms."

*    Providing a script for convincing others

4.   Shaping Perceptions of Alternatives

*    Introducing new options

"Often we can exert considerable influence simply by expanding the range of options and alternatives under consideration."

*    Controlling the agenda
 
*    Eliminating "do nothing" or "status quo" as an option

−   Setting up "action-forcing events" – i.e. events that force people to make commitments or take actions (→  implementation milestones, deadlines,
conditional agreements, etc.)

−   Making irreversible commitments oneself

−   Building change-supporting coalitions

*    Pruning options

−   Eliminating less desirable options / Funneling decision-making toward favored choices

−   Letting people try to make unpromising options work… and draw the right conclusions themselves.

5.   Facilitating the Process of Acceptance

*    Capitalizing on people's wish to:

−   remain consistent with strongly held values and beliefs (→  2.b: Linking to core values)

−   remain consistent with their prior commitments

−   preserve their sense of control

−   repay obligations

−   preserve their reputation

−   gain the approval of respected others

*    Using behavior change to drive attitude change

"People have a strong need for consistency; induced to try something new, they are likely to adjust their attitudes to be consistent with the behavior."

*    Sequencing through relationship networks

−   Planning when and in what order to approach people in order to form a coalition and build momentum

−   Planning the sequence of individual and group meetings (→  1. Mapping the influence landscape)

 
6.   Gaining Acceptance for Tough Decisions

Creating a fair process:

*    Engaging in shared diagnosis

"Getting people involved in the diagnosis of organizational problems is a form of entanglement: involvement in the diagnosis makes it more difficult for people to deny the need for tough decisions."

*    Consulting broadly

"Consultation promotes buy-in. Good consultation means active listening. Posing questions and encouraging people to voice their real concerns, then summarizing and feeding back what you have heard, signals that you are paying attention and taking the conversation seriously. The power of active listening as a persuasive technique is vastly underrated."

*    Asking what is needed to get it done… and giving what has been asked for.

7.   Communicating

*    Developing reliable communication channels

"Good communication channels transmit the right information in a timely and responsive way."

*    Focus and repetition

*    Matching the medium and the message

*    Introducing powerful simplifications

*    Creating a new mythology

*    Building personal credibility



Source: Michael D. Watkins, The Power to Persuade, Harvard Business School, Working Paper
9-800-323, Rev. July 24, 2000


Sumbiosis / Thinkpieces

[decepticon]

For the record I do not think that decepticon is on their payroll either.

least somebody got my back 

dig brings up a pretty disturbing point though. watching that video of caldwell. he talks about not being able to control information from the "top down" anymore, and information has so much power. he says it's out of control. that's not comforting from an elitist. this is a lt. general telling you the battleground is the blogosphere. our military is going to war for the mind !

i guess they weren't kidding when they named it info wars.

i would think sheen would be a pretty "high-priority" target. they must be watching us like hawks

[donnay]

Yeah, I'm the pompous one Donnay.   

Charlie is a drug addict/sex addict/alcoholic who has flipped his lid and anyone with even half a brain in the 9-11 Truth Movement should be getting away from him as fast as they can.

If his beliefs were on the other side of the issue, you'd be denigrating him 24/7 for his actions.

Well, you aren't the only one-- but, you continue to proved me right with your own pomposity.

If the Truth Movement was an organization of mind-numbed robots, I would be getting away from it as fast as I can.  However, the Truth Movement is made up of rugged individuals who seek to find the truth.  There is no one leader, we are all leaders!  It's time you realize that!

[JT Coyoté]

Dig and AI,

Thank you for that timely report on the tactics used to promote disinfo through the 6 points... All truthers should know these, and all disinfo agents and narrative twisters whether on the corporate government payrolls or not, need to know that their cover has long been blown...

Myth creation is the product of human culture, NOT GOVERNMENT... government is created by human culture to protect people and culture... you'd never know that to look at modern American corporate government, I'll tell you.

NOW BACK TO THE, Charlie Sheen's Children Removed, NARRATIVE...

JTCoyoté

"Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects
with every free people. They throw that light over the
public mind which is the best security against crafty and
dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."
~James Madison

[egypt]

on this site? who knows. if they are, perhaps they are getting educated on what is going on so...win-win (hehe)

it just seems to me that whenever Charlie Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell, or any other celebrity exposes another layer of the onion concerning 9/11 there are over 100,000 news stories and sound bites that mysteriously get interjected into every facet of society.

Seems almost like a well coordinated military operation from a 10,000 foot level observation.

And now that we know Lt. Gen. Caldwell conducted such operations on US Senators, what would be stopping him from doing this to celebs like Charlie Sheen?

I can sure see it!  People are living in a dream world if they think that things like this cannot happen and be said about a person who is innocent.  Charlie may not be perfect -- thank goodness, who is?  If Charlie gets angry and lashes out, my feeling is that it is a normal reaction to abnormal actions.

I have seen people learn the real hard way.  Being a good, decent, honest, community-minded, honorable person does not mean because one does no wrong in living quietly & privately that they won't be flattened by the System Machine.  This is the tyranny.  First, we as a people are hamstrung into infighting and lacking the will to resist.  The machine doesn't get tired.  It just keeps rolling on until the goal of 97% dead is reached.  One way, or another.

Charlie is a credit to humanity, in spite of his anger which I am sure doesn't come out of nowhere, for no reason (people are saying he's a maniac, manic or whatever?).  Lots of petty-minded attacking, on petty levels coming out of the woodwork, everywhere!  It reeks of System takedown through lies & trying to get people to form a sullied opinion of a person & his circumstances.

What a fine father.  How caring to not upset his little boys when they were taken.  How many people could accomplish *that?*  Any idea of the gut-wrenching, BLACK HOLE in his entire being he was feeling at that time?

Love, e