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What Strategy Demands from Influence Practitioners
What Strategy Demands from Influence Practitioners Why Meeting Strategic Intent from the recent NSS, NDS, and NDAA Requires Institutional Transformation Read Full Article »
What Strategy Demands from Influence Practitioners: Why Meeting Strategic Intent from the recent NSS, NDS, and NDAA Requires Institutional Transformation
The operator sits in a secure basement, awaiting the green light to push out a digital expose’ onto carefully selected social media platforms and networks. The information in the expose, all truthful and professionally curated to attract attention, is meant to awaken the populace to ever increasing foreign maligned influence. The only problem: the request to publish it has been pending for over seventy-two hours.
Governing cognitive warfare at ecosystem speed: Why America can’t organize for influence—and what it takes to compete
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Governing Cognitive Warfare at Ecosystem Speed: Why America Can’t Organize for Influence—and What It Takes to Compete
In the time it takes Washington to schedule an interagency meeting, an adversary can frame an incident for half the world. That is the central problem of cognitive warfare. Meaning now hardens into public and elite “reality” at a speed our institutions were never designed to match. The United States does not lack tools, talent, or awareness in this space. It has world‑class intelligence agencies, public diplomacy professionals, military information forces, and technology partners.
Cognitive Warfare Without a Map: Why Current Targeting Logic Fails in a Fast-Moving Information Ecosystem
A unit prepares to deploy as a deepfake video begins circulating online, amplified by bot accounts and picked up by mainstream outlets and influencers within hours. As staff officers coordinate a response, lawyers review courses of action, and platforms deliberate content moderation, the narrative mutates, spills across audiences, and triggers legal challenges, partner hesitation, and public pressure.
Presumptive mayor: Anacortes is already acting on housing plans, public outreach
For the last 10 years, the City of Anacortes has spent substantial time, effort and money on land use planning and facilitating housing. Anacortes and Skagit County have had some of the lowest vacancy rates in the state — a key indicator of housing market crisis — which is why Anacortes has strenuously focused on housing availability and affordability in recent years, and has won the Governor’s Smart Communities Award twice for our work.
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