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The hostile use of global television to shape another society’s will by changing its view of reality; The Media War we need to win
Topic Started: Jan 26 2010, 06:06 PM (28 Views)
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SoftWar: The hostile use of global television to shape another society’s will by changing its view of reality.
As de Caro points out in his lectures, “Simply killing or capturing radical Islamic terrorists as a way of winning a globally distributed guerilla war is much like the inept mechanic who reacts to an engine warning light by cutting the wires to the light. The problem still exists and it's in the ENGINE! The engine in the case under consideration here is the widely dispersed al Qaeda body politic which is hiding like a cancer in the vastly larger Umma, which, in turn, is composed of all the believers of Islam.

“Thus while there are those among us who would happily don a ski mask and shoulder an MP-5SD3 (silenced submachine gun) to do some serious counter-terrorism, what is really needed is a major program of anti-terrorism to stem the flow of new al Qaeda recruits from the Umma. To do that we will need a huge, well funded and coordinated campaign of strategic communications, public diplomacy, and information warfare in all its forms.”

“Right now,” says de Caro, “the United States has five major organizations doing information projection around the globe: the State Department, the Department of Defense, the White House, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the CIA. But all are grossly under-funded for an operation of the kind needed to confront al Qaeda, and they are grossly undermanned, having few, if any, experts who know how to create a global television and/or Internet campaign over a generation or two. Worst of all, there is no coherent strategy or leadership. Period!”
The goal of radical Islam, led by al Qaeda, is a worldwide Caliphate in which every non-Muslim will have three choices: 1) Convert to Islam, 2) Refuse to convert but pay tribute, or Be killed. Breaking that trilogy of horrors will require a lot of effort.

As de Caro explains, “Once you understand that a monothesistic Islamic world is al Qaeda’s ultimate goal, the first thing to attack is their basic strategy for achieving that goal. That strategy is a hybrid product of warfare and marketing which uses high explosives in the same way that Hollywood uses publicity stunts and celebrity tours.
“Thus, al Qaeda uses kinetic weapons (heat, blast, and fragmentation) to create information. And once an event has been created, they use the most powerful inventions of the information age, instantaneous global television and the Internet, to justify their righteousness to the Umma, to recruit new jihadists, and to spread fear and terror throughout the non-Muslim world. The great irony is that we created global television and the Internet and that our enemy, al Qaeda, now uses it effectively against us.
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