A KC-130J Super Hercules drops sanitized leaflets during information warfare training near Yuma, Ariz., Oct. 22, 2016. (Lance Cpl. Andrew Huff/Marine Corps)
Military Times: SOCOM needs to step up its propaganda game, Pentagon deputy says
The Defense Department wants U.S. Special Operations Command to do more than the traditional leaflets-and-loudspeakers approach to information warfare, a senior Pentagon official said this week.
“We need to move beyond our 20th century approach to messaging and start looking at influence as an integral aspect of modern irregular warfare,” Andrew Knaggs, the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combating terrorism, said at a defense industry symposium Tuesday.
The shift will require cooperation with civilians rarely approached by SOCOM, as well as new technology and strategies to isolate enemy disinformation campaigns before they catch the public’s interest in an area of operations.
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WNU Editor: No mention on how much money they are spending to increase this propaganda "capability".
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