organization:pentagon

USA Today pair hit by smear campaign after Pentagon propaganda story
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/usa-today-smear-campaign

Two USA Today journalists investigating private security companies engaging in foreign propaganda wars on behalf of the Pentagon appear to have been subjected themselves to a dirty tricks campaign, the newspaper has revealed.

U.S. ’info ops’ programs dubious, costly
►http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-02-29/afghanistan-iraq-military-information-operations-usa-today-investigation/53295472/1

As the Pentagon has sought to sell wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to often-hostile populations there, it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on poorly tracked marketing and propaganda campaigns that military leaders like to call “information operations,” the modern equivalent of psychological warfare.

http://i.usatoday.net/_common/_notches/c51360f9-930f-4d22-822b-aada7c1b5c3d-info-opsmanual.jpg

Pentagon Wants Spy Troops Posing as Businessmen | Danger Room | Wired
►http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/clandestine-businessmen

Notice how the proposal says that using the cover of “commercial activities” would “provide an important safeguard for U.S. military forces.” Perhaps it would. But it would also place businessmen in danger. Once civilian commercial activities become a front for U.S. military spying, then foreign governments will likely view normal businessmen as targets for their own counterspying, or even detention.

#etats-unis #espionnage #armée

Pentagon Pushes Crowdsourced Manufacturing - NYTimes.com
►http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/pentagon-pushes-crowdsourced-manufacturing

The crowdsourcing effort will rely on a software initiative, called Vehicleforge.mil, which will be a Web portal for gathering, sharing and testing ideas.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/04/05/technology/05bits-concept/05bits-concept-blog480.jpg

Earlier in the week, researchers from the company, M.I.T. and the Pentagon agency, Darpa, discussed the project and its potential significance for the military and beyond.

The near-term target, they said, is to collaborate on a design for an amphibious vehicle for the Marines.

Crowdsourced software design, of course, is old hat. That is the open-source model that gave us the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server years ago.

But what is different about the Vehicleforge.mil project is that it is essentially a software “engine” that contributors use to plug in simulated components. Then, the new part or subsystem can be tested, virtually.

beaucoup de #darpa en ce moment, on dirait du #google
Des hackers séduits par le Pentagone ►http://owni.fr/2012/04/06/les-liaisons-ambigues-des-hackers-avec-larmee
►http://seenthis.net/messages/60745

Militarizing the Middle East: Arms Shipments Continue Despite Abuses
►http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15691

A mysterious ship laden with weapons is expected to dock in Port Said, Egypt, this week. The MV Schippersgracht left Southport in North Carolina, the Pentagon’s largest ammunition port, on March 3, 2012. The ship is on contract to the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, which refuses to explain what weapons are on board or what the ultimate destination of the weapons are, claiming security concerns.

Brian Wood, Amnesty International’s head of arms control, raised the alarm: “This ship of shame should not be allowed to unload its dangerous cargo in Egypt, and there is a substantial risk that this is what it plans to do,” he said in an Amnesty press release.

There is good reason to worry – the U.S. is one of the major sources of weapons that both the current and the previous regimes in Cairo have used against their citizens.

For example, a shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from the US on November 26, 2011, carrying at least seven tons of “ammunition smoke” – which includes chemical irritants and riot control agents such as tear gas – from Combined Systems, Inc. of Jamestown, Pennsylvania. A U.S. State department spokesperson later confirmed that they had approved licenses for the export of such devices to Egypt.

#armes #gaz_lacrymogènes #Egypte #Etats-Unis

#Google Adds (Even More) Links to the Pentagon | Danger Room | Wired
►http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/pentagon-google

On Monday, the Defense Department’s best-known geek announced that she was leaving the Pentagon for a job at Google. It was an unexpected move: Washington and Mountain View don’t trade top executives very often. But it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. The internet colossus has had a long and deeply complicated relationship with America’s military and intelligence communities. Depending on the topic, the time, and the players involved, the Pentagon and the Plex can be customers, business partners, adversaries, or wary allies.

au point que certains parlent du « prochain Halliburton »

#militaires #armées #etats-unis #cyberguerre

Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google | Danger Room | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/dugan-darpa-google

Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was “offered and accepted at senior executive position” with the internet giant, according to Darpa spokesman Eric Mazzacone. She felt she couldn’t say no to such an “innovative company,” he adds.

via @bodyspacesoc #normal

The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read | Michael Hastings | Rolling Stone
►http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-afghanistan-report-the-pentagon-doesnt-want-you-to-read-20120210

Earlier this week, the New York Times’ Scott Shane published a bombshell piece about Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan. According to the Times, the 48-year-old Davis had written an 84-page unclassified report, as well as a classified report, offering his assessment of the decade-long war. That assessment is essentially that the war has been a disaster and the military’s top brass has not leveled with the American public about just how badly it’s been going. “How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding?” Davis boldly asks in an article summarizing his views in The Armed Forces Journal.

Le rapport (unclassified) en question:
►http://www1.rollingstone.com/extras/RS_REPORT.pdf

Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged America’s credibility among both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan. It has likely cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars Congress might not otherwise have appropriated had it known the truth, and our senior leaders’ behavior has almost certainly extended the duration of this war. The single greatest penalty our Nation has suffered, however, has been that we have lost the blood, limbs and lives of tens of thousands of American Service Members with little to no gain to our country as a consequence of this deception.

To sum the above: the Secretary of Defense gave “talking points” to former generals to use when they went on television news shows to sell Mr. Rumsfeld’s views; no documentation even existed – among 25,000 documents – to even confirm what the purpose of the Secretary’s program was; talking points had a political purpose; when even two well-known former generals – McCaffrey and Clark – didn’t move their mouth “like a sock puppet”, they were dropped from the program. CNN demonstrated its proclivity to only want spokesmen with current access when they allegedly tried to drop General Clark. Does anyone see a problem with this?

Thus, the American people can expect that in future situations where military expert opinion is desired by major news media outlets, the main group of spokesmen who the networks will hire are those with access to top defense officials – and the Pentagon is only going to give access to those willing to share as their “opinions” the bullet points given them by the Department of Defense.

So long as our country’s top TV and print media continue to avoid challenging power for fear of losing access, there is every reason to expect many senior Defense Department leaders will continue to play this game of denial of access in order to effect compliant reports. As I’ve shown throughout this report, there is ample open source information and reports all over the internet that would allow any individual – or reporter – to find the truth and report it. But heretofore few have.

Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran
►http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203363504577187420287098692.html

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Thursday, acknowledged the bomb’s shortcomings against some of Iran’s deepest bunkers. He said more development work would be done and that he expected the bomb to be ready to take on the deepest bunkers soon.

Et maintenant, essaie d’imaginer le ministre de la défense iranien tenant exactement les mêmes propos, expliquant que l’Iran a vraiment besoin de développer prochainement des bombes suffisamment puissantes pour pouvoir détruire les plus profonds bunkers installés aux États-Unis. J’aimerais bien voir la forme que prendrait l’article du Wall Street Journal.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is “Aggression”
►http://c4ss.org/content/9475

The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new “defense” guidance document: “Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.” I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite right to use “defense” to describe a document that — like its predecessors — envisions something like an American Thousand-Year Reich.

The greatest shift in emphasis is in the section “Project power despite Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges.” The “threat” to be countered is that China and Iran “will continue to pursue asymmetric means to counter our power projection capabilities.”

That refers to a long-standing phenomenon: What Pentagon analysts call “Assassin’s Mace” weapons — cheap, agile weapons that render expensive, high-tech, weapons systems ineffective at a cost several orders of magnitude cheaper than the Pentagon’s gold-plated turds. In the context of “area denial,” they include cheap anti-ship mines, surface-to-air missiles, and anti-ship missiles like the Sunburn (which some believe could destroy or severely damage aircraft carriers).

Thus the Pentagon defines as a “threat” a country’s ability to defend itself effectively against attack or to prevent an enemy from putting offensive forces into place to attack it. Yes, you read that right: To the American national security establishment, it’s considered threatening when you prepare to defend yourself against attack by the United States. It’s the perspective of a Family Circus character: “Mommy, he hit me back!” That kind of double standard is pretty common in the National Security State’s assessment of the world.

Pentagon Cuts and a Changing U.S. Military - Yochi J. Dreazen - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/pentagon-cuts-and-a-changing-us-military/250997

The new strategy is the product of a widespread view across the Pentagon’s military and civilian leadership that ground wars like Afghanistan are a thing of the past while air and naval conflicts with nations like Iran or China represent the most important threats of the future. The document explicitly said the Pentagon will shift military and financial resources away from Europe and toward the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions.

Obama’s Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire
►http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2012/01/obamas-pentagon-strategy-leaner-more.html

Unfortunately, though, rather than renouncing empire and endless war, Obama’s stated strategy for the military going forward just reaffirms the U.S. commitment to both. Rather than renouncing the last decade of war, it states that the bloody and disastrous occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan – gently termed “extended operations” – were pursued “to bring stability to those countries.”

[…]

Obama can talk all he wants about turning the page on a decade of war and occupation, but so long as he continues to fight wars and military occupy countries on the other side of the globe, talk is all it is. The facts, sadly, are this: since taking office Obama doubled the number of troops in Afghanistan; he fought to extend the U.S. occupation in Iraq– and partially succeeded; he dramatically expanded the use of killer drones from Pakistan to Somalia; and he requested military budgets that would make George W. Bush blush. If you want to see what his military strategy really is, forget what’s said at press conferences and in turgidly written Pentagon press releases. Just look at the record.

#nucléaire #armement #étatsunis

Map: The Nuclear Bombs in Your Backyard | Mother Jones

►http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/map-nuclear-bombs-power-weapons

Map: The Nuclear Bombs in Your Backyard

Look up where in the United States the Pentagon keeps its atomic weaponry.

By Adam Weinstein and Tasneem Raja
Wed Nov. 9, 2011

The United States currently has 5,113 atomic warheads deployed in silos, bombers, and submarines, mostly in the continental US. That doesn’t include thousands of “zombies” being kept in reserve and a backlog of more than 3,000 warheads awaiting dismantlement. Meanwhile, we’re telling the world that we’re on the path to disarmament, even as we’re spending more on the nuclear weapons complex than we did during the Cold War.

Le Pentagone a ses propres sites d’information pour t’informer en toute objectivité sur le Web. Et dis-donc : mais c’est que ça coûte une blinde !
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/a-speed-bump-for-pentagons-information-ops/2011/12/06/gIQAbxF7YO_blog.html

The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to assess the effectiveness of a series of news and information Web sites that have been initiated by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in recent years in a bid to counter extremist messaging. The so-called “influence Web sites” are maintained by various overseas commands and operated by defense contractors.

For fiscal 2012, SOCOM sought $22.6 million in the Overseas Contingency Operations account — primarily intended to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — for the initiative.

Congress, over the past few years, has been pressing the Pentagon to justify the hundreds of millions of dollars spent overseas under various headings such as “strategic communications” and “information operations.”

[…]

Among the Web sites are Magharebia, which covers North Africa and is operated under U.S. Africa Command; Central Asia Online, under U.S. Central Command, which covers countries such as Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan; and the Southeast European Times, under U.S. European Command, which covers the Balkans, Greece and Turkey.

L’info remonte à octobre 2010: EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined At The Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 | Fox News
►http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-dined-pentagon-months

Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA’s kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned. 

Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

US defence chief says Israel ’isolated’ - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/10/201110341753393563.html

Leon Panetta, the new US defence secretary, says Washington is committed to ensuring Israel maintains a “qualitative military edge” in the Middle East, but warned that the country is becoming increasingly isolated.

Panetta, who is due to arrive in Israel on Monday on his first visit to the region since taking charge at the Pentagon, said he planned to use the trip to reaffirm US security commitments to Israel and try to improve its deteriorating relations with Turkey and Egypt.

“It’s pretty clear, at this dramatic time in the Middle East when there have been so many changes, that it is not a good situation for Israel to become increasingly isolated. And that is what has happened,” Panetta told reporters on his plane.

“The important thing there is to again reaffirm our strong security relationship with Israel, to make clear that we will protect their qualitative military edge,” Panetta said.

“As they take risks for peace, we will be able to provide the security that they will need in order to ensure that they can have the room hopefully to negotiate.”

Cette dernière phrase est très drôle.

Pour mémoire, en avril 2008 :
Netanyahu says #9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-netanyahu-says-9-11-terror-attacks-good-for-israel-1.244044

“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events “swung American public opinion in our favor.”

The Death Star: A Pentagon Purchasing Nightmare
►http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/death-star-pentagon

Meet the biggest cautionary tale in the world of defense procurement: the Death Star. Thanks to the Pentagon’s in-house acquisition journal, Defense AT&L Magazine — not usually a venue for fan fic — we have a detailed explanation as to why. Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward provides a nerdy-but-accurate examination of the Empire’s acquisition flaws in building the moon-sized death ray

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/09/Deathstar-inquizition.jpg

Star Wars holds lessons about what to buy as well as what not to. Ward contends that the humble droid mechs represent a better acquisition path than Death Stars. They’re sturdy, battle-tested systems that are affordable and live up to their billing.

Egypt’s military ruler Tantawi and the American siege of Gaza: revelations from Wikileaks | The Electronic Intifada
►http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/egypts-military-ruler-tantawi-and-american-siege-gaza-revelation

The US administration of President Barack Obama was even more actively involved than previously known in enforcing the siege of Gaza along Egypt’s border with the territory. And the Pentagon provided direct assistance and technology for these efforts, a newly released official document reveals.

The US Embassy cable dated 8 April 2009 and released yesterday by Wikileaks is a briefing document for US Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) – a hardline supporter of Israel – who was in Egypt to meet with officials. At the time, Lowey chaired an important congressional committee that oversees aid to Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Moreover, the cable shows that the Americans coordinated Egypt’s efforts to keep Gaza sealed from the outside world directly with Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Muhammad Tantawi – who is currently Egypt’s military ruler. Tantawi heads the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that has ruled Egypt since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak last February.

This may help explain why, despite high hopes, Egypt has reneged on repeated commitments to lift the Gaza siege.

#cablegate

Ici, on découvre encore quelques milliards de dollars qui ont « disparu » en Afghanistan. Argent qui n’est pas perdu pour tout le monde.

Investigation finds US funds ended up in Taliban hands - The Note
►http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/07/investigation-finds-us-funds-ended-up-in-taliban-hands.html

A military-led investigation has found that US taxpayer money from trucking contracts in Afghanistan has indirectly found its way into Taliban coffers, the Pentagon confirmed today.

An internal assessment by Task Force 2010, established to examine allegations of corruption in contracting, has found the problem to be even greater than previously reported. According to reports it determined that funds from a $2.16 billion trucking contract eventually found their way to the Taliban through a payment form a subcontractor to a corrupt local official, who then paid money and guns to the Taliban.

“First, some history. The Pentagon’s budget has risen for 13 years, which is unprecedented. Between 2001 and 2009, overall spending on defense rose from $412 billion to $699 billion, a 70 percent increase, which is larger than during any comparable period since the Korean War. Including the supplementary spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States spent $250 billion more than average U.S. defense expenditures during the Cold War – a time when the Soviet, Chinese and Eastern European militaries were arrayed against the United States and its allies.

Over the past decade, when the U.S. had no serious national adversaries, the country’s defense spending has gone from about a third of total worldwide defense spending to nearly 50 percent. In other words, America spends almost as much on defense as the planet’s remaining countries put together.”

Read more: ►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2011/Aug-08/The-US-benefits-from-major-defense-spending-cuts.ashx#ixzz1UP30DANX
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: ►http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People | | AlterNet
►http://www.alternet.org/story/151864/6_creepy_new_weapons_the_police_and_military_use_to_subdue_unarmed_people?

C’est guerre... civile qui se prépare.

The Pentagon’s approved term for these weapons is “non-lethal” or “less-lethal” and they are intended for use against the unarmed. Designed to control crowds, clear streets, subdue and restrain individuals and secure borders, they are the 21st century’s version of the police baton, pepper spray and tear gas. As journalist Ando Arike puts it, “The result is what appears to be the first arms race in which the opponent is the general population.”

Pentagon Set To Track Social Media - SocialTimes.com
►http://socialtimes.com/pentagon-set-to-track-social-media_b71162

Doubt the power of social media? The Pentagon doesn’t. A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency focuses on social media tracking.

It seems like DARPA would have more important things to do than track tweets, but a new project, titled the Social Media in Strategic Communication, suggests that DARPA may spend up to $42 million on a project designed to track social media. DARPA explains: “Changes to the nature of conflict resulting from the use of social media are likely to be as profound as those resulting from previous communications revolutions. The effective use of social media has the potential to help the Armed Forces better understand the environment in which it operates and to allow more agile use of information in support of operations.”

What will the project include? Lots of things apparently. DARPA identifies four major goals:

“1. Detect, classify, measure and track the (a) formation, development and spread of ideas

and concepts (memes), and (b) purposeful or deceptive messaging and misinformation.

2. Recognize persuasion campaign structures and influence operations across social media

sites and communities.

3. Identify participants and intent, and measure effects of persuasion campaigns.

4. Counter messaging of detected adversary influence operations.”

In other words, what happened in Egypt was enough to spook the American government. In early 2011, Egypt experienced a revolution which resulted in bringing down President Hosni Mubarak’s government. Social media – Twitter in particular – has been credited with playing a major role in Egypt’s revolution.

In many ways, the initiative is surprising – not because it exists but because it has taken the government so long to launch the project. None the less, there is perhaps no greater signal that a communication medium is legitimate than government recognition. Welcome to table Twitter; the US Department of Defense considers you equally as dangerous, if not more so, than a television or newspaper.

#réseauxsociaux

A écouter : Un candidat républicain US soupçonné d’usage de faux followers ?

►http://medias.rsr.ch/actu-en-audio/actu/2011/actu-audio-20110803-7662.mp3

Who gains from debt deal? The Pentagon, for one | McClatchy
►http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/01/119061/who-gains-from-debt-deal-the-pentagon.html

Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said: “We are confident that we can make this (debt deal) happen without affecting readiness and without affecting any of our soldiers.”

Die-hard conservative Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., said he’d support the bill but that to avoid deep military reductions, “I think the most important thing is to get a strong defense person on the (bipartisan) committee.”

Supporters of the debt deal, including top defense officials, said it was too risky to make major defense cuts without examining the national security strategy. They noted that the reductions still represent the sharpest baseline defense budget cuts since the 1990s.

But those who advocate more reductions said that the current proposal, in inflation-adjusted dollars, kept defense spending higher than it was at the height of the Cold War.

Signalé Par Dominique Vidal

Court extrait d’une interview télévisée du général Westley Clark sur la décision de l’administration Bush d’attaquer l’Irak.

Voici le lien et la transcription réalisée par l’assistant d’Avi, Max Thompson:

►http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/87746.html

Transcript Gen. Wesley Clark from the LRC Blog.
transcribed 18 July 2011 by Max Thompson

About 10 days after 9/11 I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me and one of the generals called me in and he said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second”
I said, “well you’re too busy.”
He said “No, no”, look he says, “we’ve made the decision. We’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September.
I said, “we’re going to war with Iraq, why?”
He said, “I don’t know.” [audience laughs]
He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.”
So I say, “well did they find some information connecting Saddam to Al Qaeda?”
And he said “No, no,” he says, “there’s nothing new that way. They’ve just made the decision to go to war with Iraq”. He said, “I guess it’s like…we don’t know what to do about terrorists but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments”. And he said “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So, I came back to see him a few weeks later. And by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan, I said “ are we still going to war in Iraq?”
He said “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He said, he reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper, he said “I just”, he said “I just got this down from upstairs”, Meaning the Secretary of defence’s Office, “today.” And he said “this is a memo describes how we’re gonna take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran”.
GAP
The truth is about the Middle East is has there been no oil there it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa, the problem is the opposite. We keep asking for people to intervene and stop it. And there’s, there’s no question that the presence of petroleum throughout the region has sparked great power involvement. Whether that was the specific motivation for the coup or not I can’t tell you, but, but, there was definitely there has always been this attitude that somehow we could intervene and use force in the region.

#etatsunis #irak #afghanistan

Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine | Danger Room | Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpa-wants-social-media-sensor-for-propaganda-ops

Defense Department extreme technology arm #Darpa unveiled its Social Media in Strategic Communication (#SMISC) program. It’s an attempt to get better at both detecting and conducting propaganda campaigns on social media. SMISC has two goals. First, the program needs to help the military better understand what’s going on in social media in real time — particularly in areas where troops are deployed. Second, Darpa wants SMISC to help the military play the #social_media #propaganda game itself.
(...) SMISC algorithms will be aimed at discovering and tracking the “formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts (memes)”

#armée #internet #idées #atla #silicon_army