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It’s not new, we’re just ignorant: our modern Maginot Line does little against political warfare April 5, 2024
Knowing why is far more important learning how May 11, 2023
A Look at the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Historical Look at the Politics of US Information Warfare May 10, 2023
Talking about Strategic Influence and Stuff May 9, 2023
No, the Smith-Mundt Act does not apply to the Defense Department, and it never did March 27, 2023
Eisenhower, Dulles, and USIA: can the past provide lessons for the present? (Or, “The rhyming history of US public diplomacy”) March 22, 2023
R changes coming? February 1, 2023
Sometimes the commonly accepted fact is not a fact January 19, 2023
The Smith-Mundt Symposium of 2009: a discourse about America’s discourse January 13, 2023
The propaganda of “propaganda” January 11, 2023
Who said it, when, and why? Part II (of II) November 29, 2022
Who said it, when, and why? Part I November 29, 2022
It’s been said… November 22, 2022
The deficiency of “information” October 3, 2022
We don’t have an organizational problem, we have a leadership problem September 21, 2022