DOD Strategic Communication: Integrating Foreign Audience Perceptions into Policy Making, Plans, and Operations

Abstract

DOD officials are seeking to approach strategic communication as a process that leaders, planners, and operators should follow to integrate foreign audience perceptions into policy making, planning, and operations at every level. However, descriptions of strategic communication in several key documents including the Quadrennial Defense Review and the National Framework for Strategic Communication characterize it differently. For example, the Quadrennial Defense Review describes strategic communication as the coordination of activities such as information operations2 and public affairs, among other things. According to DOD officials, these varying descriptions of strategic communication have created confusion within the department. To address this confusion, DOD is drafting an instruction to clarify the steps of the strategic communication process, which DOD officials expect to be completed in late spring or early summer 2012.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: May 24, 2012
• Accession Number: ADA561006

Entities

People

• Ashley Alley
• Debbie Chung
• Erin Behmann
• Jason Bair
• John Pendleton
• Marie Mak
• Martin De Alteris
• Michael Courts
• Nick Jepson
• Susan Ditto

Organizations

• United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Electronic Warfare
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Computer Networks
• Congress
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Mail
• Electronic Warfare
• Governments
• Homeland Security
• Information Operations
• Interagency Coordination
• National Security
• Perception
• Security
• Strategic Communications
• Training
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States
• United States Government

Fields of Study

• Political science

Readers

• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Strategic Security Studies
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.