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DOD Operations Need Enhanced Leadership and Integration of Capabilities

U.S. potential adversaries—including near-peer competitors Russia and China—are using information to achieve objectives below the threshold of armed conflict. DOD can use information operations to counter these activities.

At its core, information operations (IO) are the integration of information-related capabilities during military operations to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the decision making of adversaries and potential adversaries while protecting our own. For example, in seeking to facilitate safe and orderly humanitarian assistance, the Department of Defense (DOD) would conduct IO by influencing host nation and regional cooperation through the integration of public affairs activities and military information support operations.

  • Author(s):
  • Joe Kirschbaum
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DOD Operations Need Enhanced Leadership and Integration of Capabilities
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Publisher:Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Published:April 30, 2021
License:Public Domain

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