{"id":22658,"date":"2017-03-03T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Joel-Garreau-writes-about-our-latest-strategic-worry-weaponized-narrative-seeks-to-undermine-an-opponents"},"modified":"2017-03-03T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:08:12","slug":"joel-garreau-writes-about-our-latest-strategic-worry-weaponized-narrative-seeks-to-undermine-an-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/03\/joel-garreau-writes-about-our-latest-strategic-worry-weaponized-narrative-seeks-to-undermine-an-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Garreau writes about our latest strategic worry \u2013 \u201cweaponized narrative\u201d seeks to undermine an opponent\u2019s&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Garreau writes about our latest strategic worry \u2013 \u201cweaponized narrative\u201d seeks to undermine an opponent\u2019s civilization, identity, and will by generating complexity, confusion, and political and social schisms. It can be used tactically, as part of explicit military or geopolitical conflict; or strategically, as a way to reduce, neutralize, and defeat a civilization, state, or organization. Done well, it limits or even eliminates the need for armed force to achieve political and military aims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/01\/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace\/134284\/\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/01\/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace\/134284\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFar from being simply a U.S. or U.K. phenomenon, shifts to \u201cpost-factualism\u201d can be seen in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, France, and the Philippines, among other democracies. Russia, whose own political culture is deeply post-factual and indeed post-modern, is now ably constructing ironic, highly cynical, weaponized narratives that were effective in the Ukrainian invasion, and are now destabilizing the Baltic states and the U.S. election process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garreau continues: \u201cBy offering cheap passage through a complex world, weaponized narrative furnishes emotional certainty at the cost of rational understanding. The emotionally satisfying decision to accept a weaponized narrative \u2014 to believe, to have faith \u2014 inoculates cultures, institutions, and individuals against counterarguments and inconvenient facts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/01\/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace\/134284\/\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/01\/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace\/134284\/<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Joel Garreau writes about our latest strategic worry \u2013 \u201cweaponized narrative\u201d seeks to undermine an opponent\u2019s&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/03\/joel-garreau-writes-about-our-latest-strategic-worry-weaponized-narrative-seeks-to-undermine-an-opponents\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}