Information Warfare
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Narco-Terrorism In Jammu And Kashmir: Navigating The Physical And Informational Domains
Abstract: As the means of terror financing in the Indian Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have been contained through concerted efforts by the state, the consequent dearth of funds for militants in the valley is reflected through visible operational constraints. Further, a sudden spike in cases of drug seizures near the Line… Read More
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Demythologization Of The Jammu And Kashmir Discourse
Abstract: As the character of warfare has been evolving and entering the cognitive domain, popular perceptions through targeted perception management campaigns have become a significant determinant of political fallouts on the ground. This is not restricted to any region; it is a phenomenon that defines conflicts globally. Critical analyses of international conflicts are signifiers of… Read More
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Information Warfare and Influence Operations
Abstract: Information Warfare and Influence Operations (IW/IO) are offensive tools in countering state and non-state disinformation. If applied in the context of statecraft, IW/IO can be an offensive deterrence strategy to any would-be adversary. Evidence suggests the shortcomings of traditional public affairs/public relations campaigns. Dealing with a large body of data of adversarial disinformation, we… Read More
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How to Set a Theater from an Information Warfare Perspective
Abstract: Whereas the characteristic of war as an act of violence remains unchanged, warfare itself has developed throughout the history of humankind. In all times, successful military leaders exploited all given, known, and required domains of warfare. However, the increasing importance of the information domain as an enabler of asymmetry appears to be undervalued. Multi-domain… Read More
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The Impact of Narcoseries on the Acceptance of Hard-Line Security Policies: The Mexican Case
Abstract: This paper explores the role a specific kind of entertainment product may have on higher acceptance of violence and of ‘hard line’ security policies to combat it; the author analyses so-called narcoseries through a review of communication concepts within cultivation theory, and explains how they use narrative to create empathy for violent protagonists, thus… Read More
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The Anthropology Behind Disinformation and Manipulation
Abstract: In today’s intensely interconnected world (a bi-product of globalization), numerous objects and processes are important enough to be constituted as components of an individual’s relevant environment, notwithstanding the reality that they exist or take place beyond the brain’s anthropologic operational range — in terms of time, geographic distance, selection, semantics or conceptualization. Said changes… Read More
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