Noah Shachtman for Wired:
For al-Qaeda and other Islamist types, the “information” side of [their] operation[s] is primary; the physical is merely the tool to achieve a propaganda result,” blogs U.S. forces’ counterinsurgency guru Col. David Kilcullen. “For all our professionalism, compared to the enemy’s, our public information is an afterthought.”
But how deep, how big, and how loud is the insurgent noise machine, really? This Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty report has to be one of the most meticulous public studies yet of the other side of the propaganda war, one “presented primarily in Arabic on an array of websites unknown to most Americans and Europeans.”
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