Perceptions Are Reality: Historical Case Studies of Information Operations in Large-Scale Combat Operations
Language: English
Published by Army University Press, 2023
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- Title
- Perceptions Are Reality: Historical Case Studies of Information Operations in Large-Scale Combat Operations
- Author
- Vertuli, Mark D.; Loudon, Bradley S.; Army University Press
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- Army University Press
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- 2023
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Perceptions Are Reality
This book is also available as an Audiobook.Historical Case Studies of Information Operations in Large-Scale Combat Operations
Arguably information operations (IO) is one of the most misunderstood
and misused terms in Army doctrine—to the point it has largely become
a ubiquitous term of reference that lacks the necessary clarity of purpose
and application for the majority of the Army. I am sure that if several
Army leaders and Soldiers were asked to define information operations
in their own words, one would receive several differing—and often conflicting—
interpretations. Multiple changes to Army doctrine concerning
information operations after it emerged as a concept from Command and
Control Warfare (C2W) more than 25 years ago have contributed to this
confusion. The definition of IO has changed three times in the last 11 years
alone: from a focus on five core capabilities to information engagement
(2007), to inform and influence activities (2011), to its current incarnation
focusing on information-related capabilities (2016). As the Army shifts its
doctrinal focus to large-scale combat operations (LSCO) against peer and
near-peer adversaries, the purpose of this volume is to help leaders and
Soldiers visualize and understand information operations through the lens
of historical case studies.
In both Joint and Army doctrine, information operations is defined as
“the integrated employment, during military operations, of information-related
capabilities in concert with other lines of operation to influence, disrupt,
corrupt, or usurp the decision-making of adversaries and potential
adversaries while protecting our own.”2 In more general terms, information
operations support the commander’s ability to achieve a position of
relative advantage through activities in the information environment (the
physical, informational, and cognitive dimensions) to influence the adversary’s
will to fight; disrupt, corrupt, or usurp its capabilities to collect, process,
and disseminate information; and ultimately manipulate (deceive) or
disrupt an adversary decision-maker’s understanding of the operational
environment. Field Manual (FM) 3-0, Operations does a very good job
describing the broad scope of possible information-related capabilities and
effects in the information environment. However, over the course of the
last 17 years of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations, information
operations has become synonymous in many minds with themes
and messages, psychological operations (PSYOP)/military information
support operations (MISO), or strategic communications/ communications
strategy and its larger purpose has become lost. Three lessons—dare
I say themes—are interwoven throughout the historical case studies of
information operations during large-scale combat operations: (1) the focus
is the information regardless of the capabilities employed to effect it; (2)
successful information operations are operations—integrated, synchronized,
resourced and commander-led from inception to execution; and (3)
information operations are, at their core, adversary/enemy-focused operations
conducted to gain a relative advantage for friendly decision-makers.
“It Is All about the Information”
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