Posted on 03/01/2004 6:07:01 AM PST by xsysmgr
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The United States is waging its war against terrorism on several public fronts, but the least-known is the administration's stepped-up broadcasting activities in the Arab world. The strategy is a simple one: Win the hearts and minds of younger people and you win the long-term war against terrorism.
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offensive information operations — The integrated use of assigned and supporting capabilities and activities, mutually supported by intelligence, to affect adversary decision makers to achieve or promote specific objectives. These capabilities and activities include but are not limited to operations security, military deception, psychological operations, electronic warfare, physical attack and/or destruction, and special information operations, and could also include computer network attack. See also computer network attack; defensive information operations; electronic warfare; information operations; intelligence; military deception; operations security; psychological operations; special information operations. (JP 3-13) -taken from the D.O.D. dictionary of military terms
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