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The U.S. Army information operations (IO) community faces an identity crisis. Army IO officers, known by their career field designation of Functional Area 30 (FA30), are the “staff focal point for IO,” and perform a vital function to synchronize, coordinate, and integrate information effects into unit operations. However, the FA30 community lacks a coherent group identity in part because of a widespread misunderstanding of IO stemming from years of constantly changing doctrine, terminology, and theories of execution. As a result, the Army lacks a shared institutional understanding of both...

SecDef nominee pledges to evaluate information operations January 20 President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of defense, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, at his confirmation hearing Jan. 19 before the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Greg Nash/Getty Images pool) WASHINGTON — Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Department of Defense, explained that he sees no new authorities needed to conduct operations in the information environment and pledged to review the department’s posture in the domain. If confirmed, Austin will regularly assess DoD’s auth...

Bias, outrage and extremism percolate in partisan information bubbles FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, a supporter of President Donald Trump gathers to protest in solidarity in Salem, Ore. Statehouses where Trump loyalists have rallied since the Nov. 3 election are heightening security after the storming of the U.S. Capitol this week. Police agencies in a number of states are monitoring threats of violence as legislatures return to session and as the nation prepares for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Paula... Newsmax has made inroads by capitalizing on conserv...

>> julie: the inspector general report comes out december 9th. the democrats are claiming ignored real issues with top officials and focus instead on obama officials. horowitz do they have a point? >> only that he is a really fit for these times. when he does as inspector general's very narrow and focused on a few specific things. i think the criticism of the democrats is that horowitz doesn't understand the information environment he's working in. for example, the report coming out december 9th, it looks like it's going to essentially say the republican center city don't my conspiracies are b...

Hillary clinton, how much faith do you have that the current information environment means that facts can come out, that people are persuadable, that the 40% of the country that continues to approve him can be brought to the other side? >> naively, probably more than you'd think. >> really? >> really. >> i am surprised by that answer. >> not to a point where this number of 18% is going to go 80 or or 100%. but if you look back at the last two years when facts have been entered into the public debate, whether it was the mueller indictments, the don junior phone call, the needle has moved. there...