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nal broadcasting public relations public affairs and information operations it s already a textbook at the national defense university in washington to order click here labels hearts and minds messages public affairs public diplomacy war of ideas posted by jmw at 10 32 pm 2 comments tuesday july 03 2007 the war of ideas let s fight it like a real war it s been getting a lot of attention in the pentagon among our troops in iraq in the cia and in other parts of the us government and now it s available through amazon an immediate term strategy to win the war of ideas my new book fighting the war of ideas like a real war offers low cost off the shelf ways to attack and destroy the enemy through the use of words images and information in a quick and dirty but legal and moral psychological warfare campaign there are worse things to do to an islamist extremist than kill him this book describes some of those ways here s what armed forces journal recently said about the book the playground chant of sticks and stones is turned on its head in j michael waller s intriguing book fighting the war of ideas like a real war in which he argues that words images and messages can in fact hurt a lot and in the terrorism war these are sorely underused strategic weapons that could be every bit as powerful as the conventional sticks and stones of war we prefer to hurl waller s concise book published by the institute of world politics where he is a professor of international communications is at heart a cry for someone somewhere to step up and lead the fight in the war of ideas whether this is a state or defense department role the author remains circumspect waller makes the case that the islamist terrorist is successfully and without compunction using ferociously anti american propaganda why then are americans so slow and uneasy to fight like with like our idea of the ideas war is that we ll win hearts and minds simply by communicating all the good things about us not enough says waller american messages of democracy and friendship get tuned out in the urban street hellhole we must also start dishing the dirt on our enemies the book is packed with action points that could be implemented rapidly and at little cost we could for instance stop feeding the terrorist s self esteem and confirming his status as a martyr by using the term he selected for himself jihad the term hirabah has been defined as killing by stealth and targeting a defenseless victim in a way intended to cause terror in society this is an islamic definition of terrorism the west could exploit another strategic weapon could be public ridicule which is more feared than death it s destruction without martyrdom waller s justification for why ridicule works feels right it sticks the target can t refute it it gets better with each re telling this stuff is so blindingly obvious and seemingly both clever and simple that it begs the question why aren t we already doing this is it too late to make any difference perhaps but if this guide offers ways that could discredit divide and ultimately squelch the enemy into a blob of irrelevance then the debate shouldn t be whether it s too late the question is how soon can we start get your copy today on amazon labels counterinsurgency hearts and minds iraq psyop psyops posted by jmw at 12 53 am 5 comments saturday april 21 2007 comparative apologies it s been interesing to see the difference between koreans response to the massacre at virginia tech and muslim and arab response to the 9 11 terrorist attacks korean americans korean citizens in america and the korean government didn t whine about discrimination racism and bigotry they didn t demand special protections they didn t make excuses they apologized profusely and profoundly and of course they didn t need to the psycho kid at virginia tech didn t murder in the name of korea he wasn t trained to kill by korean causes the south korean government doesn t crank out extremist propaganda that incites young men to murder no korean american activist groups tacitly supported him posted by jmw at 10 17 pm 2 comments monday april 09 2007 new postings at politicalwarfare org i ve narrowed my focus to my primary area of work which is in the political and psychological warfare area so please visit me at my politicalwarfare blog at www politicalwarfare org posted by jmw at 11 09 pm 2 comments tuesday february 20 2007 well put in anchorage all because an editor at insight magazine arbitrarily decided to put quotes around it in a 2003 article that s a good summary of the origin of the latest false lincoln quote controversy written by the alaska ear columnist for the anchorage daily news the ear was commenting on alaska congressman don young s use of the inaccurate quote on the house floor last week no deception there no fabricated or made up or fake quote like some are saying in the blogosphere just an editing error and this author s failure to make a timely correction back in 2003 that s carelessness not fraud no excuse for it to be sure but there was no intent to mislead for the unadulterated quote see the post below posted by jmw at 2 05 am 4 comments friday february 16 2007 a hanging offense part 2 more controversy erupted this week about the non quote that s not from president abraham lincoln it s based on a story i wrote for insight magazine in december 2003 in which i quoted from president lincoln s july 1863 letter that the union league distributed as a pamphlet later that year in the letter president lincoln referred to the treasonous acts of a us congressman askingwhy a boy who deserts from the army must be shot while nothing should be done to a wily agitator rep clement l vallandigham who induces him to desert the implication i drew from the letter was that if it was legal to execute the boy deserter it would be just as legal to mete out the same punishment to the saboteur congressman i quoted from the original union league copy of the lincoln letter must i shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts while i must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert this is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father or brother or friend into a public meeting and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause for a wicked administration of a contemptible government too weak to arrest and punish him if he shall desert i think that in such a case to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy his vallandigham s arrest was made because he was laboring with some effect to prevent the raising of troops to encourage desertions from the army and to leave the rebellion without an adequate military force to suppress it he was not arrested because he was damaging the political prospects of the administration or the personal interests of the commanding general but because he was damaging the army upon the existence and vigor of which the life of the nation depends he was warring upon the military and this gave the military constitutional jurisdiction to lay hands on him in the lead of my story i began congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested exiled or hanged that s what president abraham lincoln said during the war between the states kind of to the point but it was my interpretation of the lincoln quote that was to follow problem is a well meaning copy editor ran quotation marks around the first sentence making it appear that i was quoting lincoln directly saying that saboteur congressmen should be arrested exiled or hanged that s not what i intended to portray factcheck com was the first to call me on it in august 2006 nearly three years after the fact the researcher said that my quote had been used at least 18 000 times on various blogs and websites it was the first i d heard of it and i immediately said that the quote was not real on returning from vacation i wrote a correction on fourthworldwar com i thought that was the end of it until this week when my friend frank gaffney used the quote in his weekly washington times column his editor at the times alerted him to readers who had pointed out the error and i related the story to both of them for correction gaffney had corrections made immediately on the 20 or so websites that carry his column but the story got legs again when congressman don young r alaska read from the column yesterday on the floor of the house an alaska newspaper found the factcheck com item and tracked me down again i related the story now others are having fun with it today the washington post ran a piece about young tracing the origin to me and kindly calling me a conservative scholar as if it labels liberal scholars as thoroughly but being good natured about it all a spokeswoman for congressman young said the lawmaker stands corrected about the lincoln quote but that he continues to totally agree with the message of the statement good for him editor publisher which covers the newspaper industry has written two stories so far one on february 14 and one on the 15th blaming the washington times for not issuing a correction quickly enough posted by jmw at 1 55 am 12 comments wednesday january 17 2007 why is the us army sponsoring rosie o donnell s show why is the united states army sponsoring rosie o donnell s diatribes trashing the war against iranian backed insurgents and islamist terrorists the army is spending huge amounts of taxpayer dollars running recruitment ads on the anti military leviathan s abc television program the view why is the army paying abc to subsidize o donnell s hateful show in the first place furthermore what self respecting soldier would want to recruit people who have so little to do in the middle of the day that they can sit around and choose to watch the blob i bet most recruiters would agree to comment directly to the army recruiting office send an email here goarmy usarec army mil posted by jmw at 11 35 am 4 comments thursday november 30 2006 the baker plan for iraq strategic vision or tactical political dodge former secretary of state james baker is a tough and shrewd political fix it man whose skills at bureaucratic warfare and media spinning are among the best in the country he has a well earned reputation for grinding down his opponents and dispatching his enemies he is a gentleman who wields a sharp political dagger he s pulled many a protruberance from the wringer he knows how to fight and he knows how to win but counting hanging chads on florida ballots isn t the same as winning in iraq and this is where baker appears to be falling down he didn t run the george w bush campaign and do what he did in florida in order to settle something he did it to win in domestic politics james baker lives and breathes for victory but as his record as secretary of state shows he doesn t seem to know the word when fighting battles beyond america s borders and that has had terrible consequences for the world which is why his iraq recommendations are unlikely to be fruitful let s look at the record 1 nicaragua aren t we all sick of it by now was a domestic political headache for baker both when he was in the reagan white house and when he was bush 41 s secretary of state he understandably wanted to wash his hands of nicaragua when he took over the state department and rid president george h w bush of the stink so what did he do he disposed of the problem as if he was taking out the kitchen garbage he forced the pro us nicaraguan resistance army to disarm unilaterally but didn t try to make the sandinista communists do the same he pledged that the us would support the pro american fighters as they transitioned into a democratic political process what he really did was toss them to the wolves he did nothing as the sandinistas picked off more than 120 former contra commanders assassinating them one by one he broke america s promise to that small country nicaragua remains a basket case and hugo chavez just funded the return of daniel ortega to office 2 soviet union when president reagan s loyal aides were developing and executing the strategy to undermine the soviet empire a policy that became known as the reagan doctrine baker was fighting his own battles in the white house through press leaks and bureaucratic maneuvering he tried repeatedly to prevent reagan loyalists from fulfilling the president s agenda and often succeeded in neutralizing them by damaging their reputations or getting them fired this is a story that remains to be told in detail when he became secretary of state in 1989 the soviet union was collapsing by the summer of 1991 when it was all over for the kremlin baker tried to keep things together he didn t encourage the democratic and national independence movements he didn t even encourage russian president boris yeltsin who was trying to get russia to secede from the ussr he gave the appearance of siding with the leaders of the soviet communist party who were desperately trying to avert a collapse he was particularly concerned that ukraine would secede witness his involvement in the elder bush s notorious chicken kiev speech 3 afghanistan this is arguably the worst of all as with nicaragua baker wanted to cut off america s afghan allies as soon as the soviets pulled out he got his way when he became secretary of state in january 1989 the last soviet forces pulled out of afghanistan that february ahmad shah massoud leader of the non islamist and arguably pro american afghan resistance army warned us repeatedly not to abandon afghanistan after the soviet pullout to do so massoud warned would leave afghanistan to the clutches of pakistan s isi intelligence service which was dominated by islamist extremists who sought to turn afghanistan into a wahhabi theocracy the isi had diverted significant covert american aid to the fanatical islamist afghan guerrilla factions often at the expense of massoud s forces massoud needed the us to stay involved and in a big way but baker cut and ran he closed his eyes as his friends in saudi arabia and qatar bankrolled the wahhabi warlords and guerrillas undermining the new government of president burhanuddin rabbani whom massoud served as defense minister and setting the stage for the taliban and ultimately nobodies like osama bin laden even when the saudi monarchy s very existence was at stake after saddam hussein s invasion of kuwait baker failed to leverage american military support on saudi behavior abroad let s forget for the moment that his own ambassador to baghdad april glaspie told saddam to his face something that led him to believe that the us would not defend kuwait were he to invade after saddam rightly or wrongly took the cue secretary baker brilliantly organized an after the fact international coalition to join the us in repulsing iraq from kuwait but that was all the admin...