Afghan War Blog

A member of an Agricultural Development Team (ADT) from the Kansas Army National Guard talks with an Afghan farmer. (Photo U.S. Army) ...

Video - ISIS and Money.  Watch a four-minute long video explaining how the Islamic State funds itself and how government and private-secto...

State Dept, IO, and ISIS. West Point students are now part of the information operations campaign against ISIS. Cadets are now ". . ...

Taliban Attacks on Media. The Taliban attack on the employees of the Tolo TV network in Afghanistan is a shocker to Afghan journalists th...

ISIS - "An Existential Threat". The Islamic State is attempting to establish footholds in a number of countries - in addition t...

"Once again the Obama administration is revising its programs to counter and defeat the self-styled Islamic State, particularly on th...

Counter-Messaging IS. Much has been wrote about how the western nations are having trouble in the information operations arena in counter...

MISO Training. The 1st Special Warfare Training Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina is responsible for training up the personnel who staf...

ISIS and Social Media. Radical jihadi fighters have found a voice on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram,...

Women's Radio Station - Destroyed. The Taliban ransacked the Kaihan Radio Station during its brief stay in Kunduz City during Octobe...

Why Include IO in the AWN Newsletter? In a counterinsurgency - which is what the Afghan government, Afghan security forces and coalition ...

To Tweet or Not to Tweet. In the war of online influence, the United States is gaining ground but is still hopelessly outmanned. One repo...

Damage Control on Hospital Airstrike. The U.S. is still doing damage control on the AC-130 airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospi...

  Info War with ISIS. It appears that the Islamic State is eating the State Department's lunch when it comes to the information opera...

War on the Web. There is growing concern about the radicalization of the world's youth via social media. The Islamic State is proven ve...

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and VOA. The United States has done a less than stellar job in the Information Operations (IO) arena. T...

If you are in the Strategic Communications field in a conflict area then the below listed three references from the RAND Corporation may be...

"Social media is another component of unconventional strategies, and the security environment in general, that is playing a central ro...

The Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups of the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhodes Island has published a new pap...

First A-29 to arrive in Afghanistan Dec 2015 Information Operations (IO) plays a big role in a counterinsurgency. On one hand, the insu...