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Quotable: President Obama on "this larger battle for hearts and minds"
In comments at the Pentagon on July 6, 2015, President Obama addressed "progress in the fight against ISIL." The President said "our comprehensive strategy" uses all the elements of national power --...
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Quotable: Pete Favat and Bryan Price on borrowing concepts for the war of ideas
“[T]he fact that the United States and the West are losing the battle of ideas to our enemies is not in dispute,” wrote Pete Favat and Bryan Price in a July 28, 2015, article, “The Truth Campaign and...
View ArticleU.S. Public Diplomacy After the Paris Attacks -- Unanswered Questions
U.S. Public Diplomacy After the Paris Attacks – Unanswered Questions Donald M. Bishop The attacks in Paris are already prompting a major rethinking of American strategy in the fight against ISIS,...
View ArticleQuotable: Robert Tate on "hearts and minds" as a strategic goal
Writing in The Weekly Standard of October 14, 2015, Robert Tate used the template of U.S. Joint Doctrine to argue “Why Our ISIS Strategies Are Useless.” Strategies must be “clearly defined,”...
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Quotable: Jonathan Russell on countering radicalization
quilliamfoundation.org Jonathan Russell of the Quilliam Foundation has concluded that “Treating religion as a primary identifier unwittingly reinforces Islamist aims to promote religious identity...
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Quotable: Andrew Michta on ideology and resolve
“The time has come to mobilize our societies for the reality of what is facing us," wrote Andrew A. Michta, professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. His article, “Will the...
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Quotable: Dion Edon on Marine Corps Military Information Support Operations...
One goal of circulating these quotables is to help busy Public Diplomacy officers in the Foreign Service be aware of military thinking on influence – public affairs, information operations, strategic...
View ArticleQuotable: Ciaran Kovach on the “conflict for the hearts and minds of Sunni...
“In the present conflict between Islamic State and its international enemies, a dual battle is taking place. There is the battle primarily centred in Syria and Iraq over territory and there is a truly...
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Quotable: Herman J. Cohen on failures of development in Africa
carnegieendowment.org “. . . at the final National Security Council meeting about Africa, Eisenhower set the tone of Washington’s outreach to the newly independent states by saying, ‘We must win their...
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Quotable: President Obama at the Islamic Society of Baltimore
Voice of America For those who engage with Muslims face to face overseas, President Obama’s speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore on February 3, 2016, usefully gathered the President’s thoughts...
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Quotable: Christopher Holshek on engagement, study abroad, and exchanges
africacenter.org “The United States is once again in the midst of an inward turn,” wrote retired Army Colonel Christopher Holshek in a March 4, 2016, essay in the Huffington Post. Education deficits,...
View ArticleQuotable: David Kobs on the ideological power of the Islamic State
“ISIS and similar groups must be defeated by advancing strong arguments that counter their ideology and by much greater socio-political inclusion for young Muslims. The struggle will be won online—not...
View ArticleQuotable: David Ucko on Totalitarian “Hearts and Minds” Campaigns
Totalitarian states have often launched “hearts and minds” campaigns against restive or occupied populations. David Ucko of the National Defense University examined several examples – the early Soviet...
View ArticleQuotable: Andrew Hammond on turbo-charging U.S. soft power and Public Diplomacy
The imbalance between America’s hard and soft power is the preoccupation of Andrew Hammond, an Associate at LSE IDEAS (the Centre for International Diplomacy, Affairs and Strategy) at the London School...
View ArticleQuotable: Yuriy Savytskyi on the “four D’s” of Russian propaganda
In a June 21, 2016, article in the Euromaidan Press, “Kremlin trolls are engaged in massive anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland,” Yuriy Savytskyi discussed propaganda, trolling, hybrid war, and “hearts...
View ArticleQuotable: Stavridis, Rokke, and Pierce on Sony, Huntington, and integrating...
Soft power. Non-kinetic effects. Nonstate international actors. Another example of the intellectual ferment among armed forces thinkers was recently provided by three leading retired officers – James...
View ArticleQuotable: Chad Garland on countering ISIS ideas on the ground in Iraq
“Their new weapons are laptops, digital cameras and sets of a low-power, portable radio kit called a ‘radio in a box.’ Their mission: to destroy a target that has proven to be highly resistant to U.S....
View ArticleQuotable: Joseph Chapa on drones and public affairs
“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...
View ArticleClassic Quotable: George Gallup on “the battle for the minds of men” (1963)
During his career, George Gallup (1901-1984), the pioneer of opinion surveys and founder of the Gallup Poll, frequently commented on issues relating to Public Diplomacy. This 1963 essay was prepared...
View ArticleQuotable: Matt Armstrong on the institutions of information, influence, and...
“You can call it ‘information warfare,’ ‘hybrid warfare,’ or ‘political warfare,’ but whatever you call it, an adversary’s attempts to shape the minds and will of people toward a political end is not...
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