Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
“… disinformation works, and in unexpected ways. The fine line between fact and forgery may be clear in the moment an operator or an intelligence agency commits the act of falsification – for example, in the moment when a fake photograph is inserted into an otherwise genuine document, or when an unwitting influence agent is lured into casting a parliamentary vote under false pretenses, or when a bogus online account invites unwitting users to join a street demonstration, or shares extremist posts. But fronts, forgeries, and fakes don’t stop there. Active measures will shape what others think, decide, and do – and thus change reality itself. When victims read and react to forged secret documents, their reaction is real. When the cards of an influenced parliamentary vote are counted, the result is real. When social media users gather in the streets following a bogus event invitation, the demonstration is real. When readers state using racial epithets online, their views are real. These measures are active, in the sense that operations actively and immediately change views, decisions, and facts on the ground, in the now.” (p.427-428)
- Thomas Rid, Active Measures - The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
“Fight on tenaciously with uncompromising combative spirit, firm revolutionary principle, indomitable revolutionary spirit, and faith in certain victory against the enemy class."
- A principle of the Ten Great Principles of Monolithic Ideology from north Korea
"An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. . .What’s curious is that, in many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge."
- Justin Kruger and David Dunning, in “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments”
1. FINESSING PRIMACY – Some military considerations before subversion does us in Part One
2. FINESSING PRIMACY – Some military considerations before subversion does us in Part Two
3. “Psychological” isn’t a dirty word
4. Japan’s Military Role in the Indo-Pacific
5. Sizing The Navy: Why It Takes More Warships To Prevent Conflicts Than To Win Them
6. The Militant Drone Playbook
7. Stunning Speed of Taliban Offensive Brings Afghan Government's Control Into Question
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