Public diplomacy, information operations & national security. Fmr US @StateDept diplomat.
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Joined June 2011
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We face a new era of statecraft, where traditional military and diplomatic tools are less effective against centralized messaging, influence, and information efforts to undermine US interests and democracy, @haroro_ingram & I for @FPRI 1/
fpri.org/article/2020/07/rev…
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"More Americans disapprove of hunting today, in fact, than they have at any point over the past two decades. And that’s a problem, because America needs hunting more than most Americans realize." -- @ExumAM:
Read the whole thing:
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🔙🇪🇸 Tras las primeras elecciones generales de España en 1977, se llevó a cabo una gala musical para amenizar la espera del escrutinio. Fue entonces cuando Julio Iglesias protagonizó un momento histórico, al estrenar el tema Soy Un Truhán, Soy Un Señor en riguroso directo.
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Happy #NationalDaiquiriDay! In addition to overseeing the construction of Bethesda Naval Hospital, RADM Lucius Johnson introduced the daiquiri to America. He discovered the rum and lime juice cocktail while in Cuba in 1909 and brought the recipe to the Army and Navy Club in D.C.
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Taliban fighter becomes disillusioned with the regime because he now has a 9-5 e-mail job and traffic sucks lmao – at San Francisco, CA
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NYC Transit ads: you should do something about that acne
WMATA ads: the C-110B is the only proven tactical maneuvering system
MBTA ads: have you considered participating in a medical study?
BART ads: only noo.bli can optimize all your firm’s cloudchain needs
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Chris and I wrote an article correcting history, surfacing a better model than USIA, and pointing out that leadership is the cornerstone and not a by-product of a relevant organizational structure for US int'l info ops. 19fortyfive.com/2022/07/the-…
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I watched a lot of RT in the last week.
I think we’re seeing the limits of disinformation as propaganda.
Biden and Ukrainians have unraveled the myth that Putin is a wizard of global discourse.
Here’s my column via @nytopinion
nytimes.com/2022/03/02/opini…
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@ArmyCyberInst 's MAJ Joe Littell and CPT Margaret Smith, Ph.D. utilize the Man-Train-Equip paradigm to show how information can, and already is, affecting the most basic functions and aspects of the Army in real world ways.
@WarInstitute
mwi.usma.edu/rethinking-man-…
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It's conventional wisdom that the U.S. economy is built on Americans' endless appetite to buy lots of stuff.
Household consumption makes up 67% of GDP. When the economy falters, we're told spending is our patriotic duty. But it doesn't have to be this way trib.al/gIDH2vV
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There is an alternate timeline of this pandemic, where we react early and aggressively to the evidence and the threat of exponential growth, where we look at our defenses as mere tools to debated as such and used as appropriate, rather than markers in a vicious political fight...
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New: Seeking to confront proliferating global challenges, the State Department later this week will announce a new cyber bureau w/ a Senate-confirmed ambassador-at-large and a new, separate special envoy for critical and emerging tech, officials said.
wsj.com/articles/state-depar…
