Resonance Ops: How Developing Social Movements Can Operationalize Ideologies

Abstract

Many members of the United States government seem to misunderstand one of the most important concepts of social competition and politicsthe interpretation of ideology. This qualitative study provides an explanation of how ideologies go to war armed with unique profiles for social movements. In a connected world, which includes prisons and other grievance breeding grounds, the spectrum of strategic to grassroots ideological warfare will never go away. Knowing how to fight influentially in the information domain requires a communication pathway with resonant messages for the intended audiences. After studying ideologies and social movements as domestic and international phenomena, my recommendation is an initial attempt to modify Special Operations organization and expectations and to improve their effectiveness in information warfare.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1030724

Entities

People

  • Gabriel R. Bowns

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ethnic Groups
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Population
  • Information Warfare
  • National Politics
  • Personality
  • Political Ideologies
  • Political Systems
  • Political Theory
  • Psychology
  • Social Media
  • Societies
  • Sociopolitics
  • Terrorism
  • Violence
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Strategic Security Studies