Information operations in Columbia: FARC is ramping up its information war, according to StrategyPage. That article offers a timeline of FARC activities, which combine basic terrorism (kidnappings) with video publication.
Video as information ops goes back a ways. I'm reminded of Afghan videos about torturing and killing Soviet soldiers in the 1980s, which had two audiences: Afghans, for morale boosting, and Soviet soldiers, for the opposite. The Kurds used videos in their "mountain journalism" of the 1990s. In the present we've seen insurgent videos on disks, on tv (al-Jazeera), on YouTube. Although video is harder to make than audio, it seems to have rapidly outpaced sound as an IO medium. I'm still waiting for terror podcasts.
(via Instapundit)
Was it Stalingrad where the Soviets supposedly broadcast announcements that "A German soldier dies every seven seconds"?
Posted by: Steven | July 09, 2007 at 15:08
Hello. Can you please post the URLs I've Emailed you?
Posted by: Gwen | July 09, 2007 at 19:19