U.S. Still Playing Catch Up in Information Operations
2/11/2022
By Stew Magnuson
It has been more than 20 years since 9/11, when the United States acknowledged that it had allowed its once formidable information warfare and strategic messaging capabilities to lapse into a state of decline.
At the time, al-Qaida was proving on a daily basis that it could effectively use modern day tools such as the internet to spread its anti-Western propaganda. The U.S. government had little capacity to counter radical Islam’s messages after allowing its skills to atrophy at the end of the Cold War.
Two decades later, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s point man on cybersecurity and information operations said little progress has been made.
“I’m not sure how much has changed, other than we continue to watch … our adversaries demonstrate tremendous competence in this area,” Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, director of command, control, communications and computers/cyber and chief information officer, Joint Staff, J6, said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict conference held in Washington, D.C.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/2/11/still-playing-catch-up-in-information-operations
