PD commentary
Selection and commentary by PDC members and authoritative experts in the field
Quotable: Fouad Ajami on the roots of “burnt flags and overrun embassies”
Sunday, September 25th 2016
“The assumption is that Westerners bear Arabs malice, that Western judgments are always slanted and cruel. The ambivalence toward modernity that torments Muslims is unlikely to abate.”
Headline: Why is the Arab world so easily offended?
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Donald M. Bishop is the Bren Chair of Strategic Communications at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Bishop served as a Foreign Service Officer – first in the U.S. Information Agency and then in the Department of State – for 31 years. Specializing in Public Diplomacy, political-military affairs, and East Asia, he attained the rank of Minister-Counselor in the career service. He was President of the Public Diplomacy Council from 2013 to 2015 and is now a member of the Board of Directors.
...click authors name for more infoAuthor: Donald M. Bishop
Quotable: Sebastian Gorka on information in irregular warfare
Sunday, September 25th 2016
“This article is an introduction to three of the most important enemies we face today and who we will also face in the future, and how these actors use IW and unconventional warfare (UW) against our interests: the Islamic State, China, and Russia."
Headline: How America Will Be Attacked: Irregular Warfare, the Islamic State, Russia, and China
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Donald M. Bishop is the Bren Chair of Strategic Communications at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Bishop served as a Foreign Service Officer – first in the U.S. Information Agency and then in the Department of State – for 31 years. Specializing in Public Diplomacy, political-military affairs, and East Asia, he attained the rank of Minister-Counselor in the career service. He was President of the Public Diplomacy Council from 2013 to 2015 and is now a member of the Board of Directors.
...click authors name for more infoAuthor: Donald M. Bishop
- 9/11
- caliphate
- China
- Cold War
- conventional war
- cyberspace
- Daesh
- Gulf War
- hybrid war
- information operations
- Internet
- irregular warfare
- ISIL
- ISIS
- Islamic State
- IW
- Janis Berzins
- jihadism
- narratives
- Operation Enduring Freedom
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- OSS
- perception management
- psychological operations
- psychological rear
- recruitment
- reflexive control
- Russia
- Sebastian Gorka
- Social Media
- Soviet Union
- Sun Tzu
- Taliban
- USSR
- Vladimir Putin
- war of perceptions
- World War I
- World War II
Quotable: Andrew Tilghman on “political and cultural diplomacy”
Sunday, September 25th 2016
“It is not just about being involved in nation building and security but also how it is done. We have a lot of assets throughout the federal government that should be levied and we are not,” said one Marine Corps major . . . .
Headline: After 15 years of war, America's military has about had it with 'nation building'
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Donald M. Bishop is the Bren Chair of Strategic Communications at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Bishop served as a Foreign Service Officer – first in the U.S. Information Agency and then in the Department of State – for 31 years. Specializing in Public Diplomacy, political-military affairs, and East Asia, he attained the rank of Minister-Counselor in the career service. He was President of the Public Diplomacy Council from 2013 to 2015 and is now a member of the Board of Directors.
...click authors name for more infoAuthor: Donald M. Bishop
Quotable: Joseph Chapa on drones and public affairs
Sunday, September 25th 2016
“The fact that information is biased does not make it false, and the fact that information intends to shape public opinion and action does not make it underhanded or deceitful. * * * America has met the enemy’s PR effectiveness with its own PR failures. Misconceptions about RPA operations have been widespread and continue to proliferate.”
Headline: Remotely Piloted Aircraft and War in the Public Relations Domain
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Donald M. Bishop is the Bren Chair of Strategic Communications at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Bishop served as a Foreign Service Officer – first in the U.S. Information Agency and then in the Department of State – for 31 years. Specializing in Public Diplomacy, political-military affairs, and East Asia, he attained the rank of Minister-Counselor in the career service. He was President of the Public Diplomacy Council from 2013 to 2015 and is now a member of the Board of Directors.
...click authors name for more infoAuthor: Donald M. Bishop
Quotable: Lamb and Franco on strategic communications in the Long War
Friday, September 23rd 2016
“U.S. foreign policy elites tend to believe public opinion at best complicates a steady hand on the strategy tiller. In turn, the public distrusts any U.S. Government management of information for fear that it will be twisted and used in attempts to control the body politic.”
Headline: “National-Level Coordination and Implementation: How System Attributes Trumped Leadership”
Subhead: Strategic Communications
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Donald M. Bishop is the Bren Chair of Strategic Communications at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Bishop served as a Foreign Service Officer – first in the U.S. Information Agency and then in the Department of State – for 31 years. Specializing in Public Diplomacy, political-military affairs, and East Asia, he attained the rank of Minister-Counselor in the career service. He was President of the Public Diplomacy Council from 2013 to 2015 and is now a member of the Board of Directors.
...click authors name for more infoAuthor: Donald M. Bishop
- Abu Ghraib
- Afghanistan
- axis of evil
- Barack Obama
- Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
- Chris Hill
- Christopher Lamb
- CIA
- Cold War
- Condoleeza Rice
- CSCC
- department of state
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Douglas Feith
- Great White Fleet
- Hillary Clinton
- Iraq
- irregular warfare
- Japan
- Joseph Collins
- Leon Panetta
- Marshall Plan
- Megan Franco
- Michael Mullen
- milltary information support operations
- MISO
- Office of Strategic Influence
- propaganda
- public affairs
- public diplomacy
- Richard Hooker
- Robert Gates
- spin
- strategic communications
- Terrorism
- U.S. Information Agency