Senior military leaders from 11 nations in the Americas are meeting for three days in Bogotá, Colombia, at the 4th Annual South American Defense Chiefs Conference (SOUTHDEC) to discuss the transformation of the armed forces to face new threats, such as cyberwar and energy security.
Information Operations Part III: The Colombian Case
The Colombian Military, taking the U.S. Military’s Information Operations doctrine as a point of reference, along with its extensive experience in using these capabilities in combating internal threats, developed a document of its own, known as the “Doctrine of Integrated Action,” in which the objectives and strategic lines of Integrated [ … ]
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Information Operations Part II: Doctrine
Many attempts have been made to define the meaning of the concept of Information Operations (IO); they can be understood as the use of a series of tools to manage one’s own information and that of one’s adversary, with the objective of identifying and revealing the enemy’s stratagems.
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