{"id":102968,"date":"2020-02-27T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/should-the-us-have-a-secretary-for-influence-operations"},"modified":"2020-02-27T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:02:21","slug":"should-the-us-have-a-secretary-for-influence-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/should-the-us-have-a-secretary-for-influence-operations","title":{"rendered":"Should the US Have a Secretary For Influence Operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-the-us-have-a-secretary-for-influence-operations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two former top special operations officials say their job was too junior and the Pentagon isn\u2019t taking information warfare seriously enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite shifting military budgets to better keep <\/strong>up with competitors, there\u2019s one area where countries like China, Russia, and even Iran are proving nimble and frustrating for the Department of Defense: influence operations.<\/p>\n<p>In this new age of information warfare, the military art of influence ops \u2014 otherwise sometimes called psychological ops, information ops, or most-recently, military information support ops \u2014 lacks the senior level leadership it deserves, say two former Pentagon officials who were in charge of special operations policies. According to them, the position they once held is too junior for the seriousness of the threat and mission, and influence ops is spread so wide, that nobody is sure who is really in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former top special operations officials say their job was too junior and the Pentagon isn\u2019t taking information warfare seriously enough. Despite shifting military budgets to better keep up with competitors, there\u2019s one area where countries like China, Russia, and even Iran are proving nimble and frustrating for the Department of Defense: influence operations. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}