Local Centers & Resources AWC Gateway to Internet Portals, Military Portals, Non-Military Wikipedia & wiki methodology Other Links

see also: Congressional Research Service reports, on the AWC Gateway to the Internet Information/Influence Operations at Small Wars Journal

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Local Centers & Resources

• Behavioral Influences Analysis Center (BIAC)

• Center for Strategy & Technology (CSAT)
  • future conflict studies
  • publications
• National Space Studies Center (NSSC)

• Air University Library (AUL) - largest and best in DoD
• Information Operations bibliography by Air University Library
• Cyberspace and National Security bibliography by Air University Library

• USAF Doctrine Center
• Air Force Wargaming Institute

• Air Force Judge Advocate General School

• Homeland Defense & Homeland Security Studies
• Terrorism Studies
• USAF Counterproliferation Center
  • publications

• USAF Negotiation Center of Excellence (NCE)
• USAF Culture & Language Center

• Other Culture & Language Resources
  • psychology and other cultural differences
  • language resources
  • peacekeeping and military English - to reduce misunderstandings
  • effectively using interpreters
  • translation resources - including automated translation, verbal and written
  • resource links
• Strategic Leadership Studies

Air War College Gateway to Internet

• Air War College Gateway to Internet - main page
• search AWC Gateway - just replace information operations with your search term(s)

• military quick-portal of top 200 links - a one page quick list of service home pages, unified commands, pay links, personnel links, DoD and service forms and pubs, news links, etc. -- designed to be copied to a hard drive or sent by e-mail

• military index to the internet - alpha index of military topics

• Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports - on a passel of topics

• reference
  • DoD 101 and other basics
  • JFQ, Parameters, Air & Space Power Journal, and other military journals
  • using primary resources
  • quotes

• US national security strategies - all of them, including
  • intelligence and counterintelligence strategies
  • securing cyberspace strategy

• military theory, theorists, & strategists

• public affairs and mass media
  • media as an instrument of war
• being interviewed by the media

• interviewing
• interrogation
• gateway to intelligence
  • new thinking
  • intelligence and info sharing
  • open source intelligence

• special operations

• thinking skills
  • critical thinking
  • decision making
  • problem solving
  • deductive and inductive reasoning
  • intuition

• communication skills - speaking, listening, writing, reading, and
  • persuasive communication
  • fallacies in logic
  • rhetoric
  • deception detection
  • neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Portals, Military

• Military Education Research Library Network (MERLN)

• Air Force Portal
• AKO - Army Portal
• NKO - Navy Knowledge Portal
• NMCI - Navy USMC Intranet - Marine site
• NMCI - Navy USMC Intranet - Navy site
• GKO - Guard Knowledge Online

Portals, Non-Military

• Ready.gov - from dept of homeland security
• Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) Portal

• USA.gov
• FedWorld Search

• FedStats, statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• American FactFinder, U.S. Census Bureau
• Statistical Abstract of the United States, U.S. Census Bureau

• Science.gov - has pointers to an estimated 90 percent of government research

• National Library of Medicine
• MedlinePlus - trusted health information for you

• THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet
• Library of Congress

• OSS.NET - open source intelligence portal
• IWS - The Information Warfare Site

• World Wide Web Virtual Library

Wikipedia & wiki methodology

• Wikipedia - user created and maintained information source - available in multiple languages

• The Hive, by Poe, in The Atlantic Monthly, Sep 2006
  • Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge

• What is Wiki? - at Wiki.org, hosted by Leuf and Cunningham
  • The simplest online database that could possibly work.
  • Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
  • Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
  • Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

Other Links

• Phil Taylor's Web Site, The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK - extensive resources on strategic communications, propaganda, military-media relations, public diplomacy, perception management, war reporting, and other info/media topics

• NextGov - "technology and the business of government"

• Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI)
  • The Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) is a nonprofit organization based out of Omaha; NE with representation worldwide. Currently CSFI is comprised of three other divisions: CSFI-CWD (Cyber Warfare Division), CSFI-LPD (Law and Policy Division) and CSFI-WD (Wireless Division).

• Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA)
  • The Cyber Conflict Studies Association is a non-profit entity organized to promote and lead a diversified research and intellectual development agenda to advance knowledge in the cyber conflict field.

• Information Warfare Monitor
  "The Information Warfare Monitor is a joint project of the Advanced Network Research Group, part of the Cambridge Security Programme, The SecDev Group and the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto." - with research covering events/issues such as cyber incursions between nations (such as the cases of Estonia and Georgia)

• Search Engine Watch

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