Links for 1 May 2008
Exam revision proceeds apace (read, slowly) and the internet has been a busy place the last 24 hours. No time for any detail today unfortunately although I will find time to amble down to the local primary school and register my protest vote against Boris Johnson in the London mayoral elections.
Top story today: Abu Muqawama takes it to the digital immigrants.
John Mackinlay’s post yesterday for the IRG on the Taliban’s Propaganda of the Deed Strategy elicited a number of responses:
[My] State Failure – About an indirect approach to information operations
Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group – Steadfast Incomprehension
Registan.net – Did the Taliban Master 19th Century Anarchist Theories While We Slept?
Patronus Analytical has the video of the National Day attack in Kabul.
Directly relevant is a slightly older post by Kip at Abu Muqawama on the evolution of Taliban strategy – The Latest Attack in Kabul. See also Kabul attack a virtual replay of 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat at OpEdNews.com.
World: RFE/RL Study Explores How Al-Qaeda Exploits Internet – new study by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty examines how Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups use the Internet to spread their message of global jihad.
The Trouble With Strategic Communication(s) [.pdf] – Dennis Murphy issue paper at Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College.
‘Electronic Jihad’ App Offers Cyberterrorism For The Masses, 2007 piece in Information Week – U.S. businesses would be greatly impacted by any large-scale cyberattacks because most of that infrastructure is run by companies in the private sector.
Pentagon looks for ‘Killer Switch’, Danger Room -Imagine if the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could be effectively shut down by a foreign adversary with the flip of a switch? That’s, in part, the the concern behind the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Trust in Integrated Circuits program…
Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz, “Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress”, Long Views – sounds like it was an interesting evening.
State Department Terrorism report, Counterterrorism Blog – released yesterday.
Also from Counterterrorism Blog, Worry about the Daemon not Grand Theft Auto – fascinating article about gaming, security and the overlap between real and virtual worlds.
IARPA’s new configuration, IntelFusion – the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s rebranding and shake-up.
A New Low, Mudville Gazette – Global Islamic Media Front’s “Working Paper for a Media Invasion of America”.
And finally, two short essays at the excellent Global Media Project: A New Art Form: Categorizing Convergence of Media on the Web and Psychology of the Spectacle: Considering the Impact of Sputnik in the Post 9/11 Era.
