Publications
From Intelligence to Influence: The
Role of Information Operations
Strathrobyn Papers -
Canadian Forces College
March 21, 2010
The reality of
contemporary asymmetric conflicts forces an acknowledgement of a military
power’s inability to gain a political victory for itself alone. We find an
issue worse than defeat: non victory, faced with an adversary who rejects the
war we want to impose on him. Confronted with this situation, complex and
destabilizing for most militaries, and faced with the evidence that the
solution is in a dimension other than that of armed conflict, we are seeing a
renewed interest in what are called Information Operations (IO). However, a
plunge into the IO universe reveals an often unknown world, sometimes
unstructured and in constant evolution.
http://www.rcmi.org/archives/SITREP/09/09-2%20Sitrep.pdf
Strategies of Influence: The Key
Role of Ideas
SITREP - The Journal of
the Royal Canadian Military Institute
March 2009
The purpose of a strategy
of influence is both to convince others that the selected strategy is the right
one, and to organize counter-influence campaigns to contend with pressures and
disinformation from elsewhere. Effectively adopting it involves planning at a
very early stage, so as to cultivate foresight and an objective view of the
environment, thereby making the best use of economic intelligence tools, as
well as certain communications vectors.
http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/237/419-eng.pdf
From Lessons Identified to Lessons
Learned: A Proposition for Integration of Lessons Learned into Canadian Forces
Professional Development
Canadian Defense Academy
March 2010
This report describes the
Lessons Learned (LL) processes as they exist with organizations outside of the
Department of National Defense / Canadian Forces (DOD / CF), including other
government departments (OGDs), allied military forces, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) and private organizations; recognizes best practices and differences
about the process for integrating LL into Professional Development (PD); and
develops a framework that would include the key elements of efficient and
effective processes for integrating LL into PD through the Canadian Forces
Individual Training and Education System (CFITES).
Document classified – No copies available
Threality of contemporary asymmetric conflicts forces an acknowledgement of a
military power’s inability to gain a political victory for itself alone. We find an issue
worse than defeat: nonvictory, faced with an adversary who rejects the war we
want to impose on him. Confronted with this situation, complex and destabilizing
for most militaries, and faced with the evidence that the solution is in a dimension
other than that of armed conflict, we are seeing a renewed interest in what are
called Information Operations (IO). However, a plunge into the IO universe reveals
an often unknown world, sometimes unstructured and in constant evolution.
Saint Michael Consulting