ISIS and Social Media: The Combatant Commander's Guide to Countering ISIS's Social Media Campaign
Abstract
This paper analyzes ISIS s use of social media and offers recommendations to the combatant commander on what he/she can do to counter the threat. By exploring the relevance and importance of social media, I will demonstrate how social media represents a paradigm shift in communication. I will illustrate the significant opportunities and challenges that social media creates, and provide the operational commander s staff with a guide to address this new construct. This paper offers a brief history of ISIS as an historical frame of reference and details how ISIS uses social media in its operations. I will demonstrate the important role social media plays in ISIS s operational and strategic objectives. Next, I will illustrate the importance of this to the combatant commander in intelligence collection, lines of effort, and current/future operations. Finally, I will provide tailored suggestions for the combatant commander and his staff to consider when prosecuting an information operations campaign against ISIS consistent with U.S. policy and First Amendment Constitutional concerns.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 07, 2015
- Accession Number
- ADA621060
Entities
People
- Nathan K. Schneider
Organizations
- Naval War College