Top USA Security Challenges

Here are my top 5 (in no particular order):
1) Develop a pretty darn good Influence Warfare capability.
2) Finish the win in Iraq. Win in Afghanistan. Prevent a civil war in Pakistan if possible. Take down the Mullahs of Iran – one way or another. Carry on (with the goal of winning) the Long War against [...]

Hollywood has finally found a real hero to do a Afganistan War movie about…

George Clooney (Actor, Filmmaker, and one of Obama’s 300 Foreign Policy advisors) is going to make a movie on Osama bin Laden’s driver Al-Qaeda operative Salim Hamdan.
So, Anti-Anti-Islamofascist Clooney is now going to act as propagandists for the other side.
The the Idea that a new American Cold|5GW Civil War is taking place looks [...]

Question: Is the correct name for this category “Influence Warfare?”

Is Influence Warfare the correct name for the category that includes the following?
- Strategic Communications
- Public Diplomacy
- Public Affairs
- Psyops/Morale Operations
- White Propaganda
- Black Propaganda
- Political Warfare
- Covert Action to turn (and run) an individual into an agent-in-place or agent-of-influence
- Deception
- Disinformation
- Memetic Engineering
- Positioning
- Brand Management
- FUD
Note:
- I know there is overlap.
- I [...]

Links – Political Warfare / StratCom / Psyops / Related

Note: I have been hording these, so they are not all current.

LGF Link: “Al-Qaeda As Brand Name”

Here is the link.
Branding is coupled to marketing. The whole thing seems very meme-ish.
I haven’t had time or desire to blog much recently, but it might be interesting to do a post inter-relating branding, marketing, memetic engineering, information warfare, and then with 4GW and/or 5GW.