Talk:Information Operations (United States)

Inappropriate Redirect from Information Operations

The information warfare page redirects to this page at the end of that article's introduction. I find this highly inapproprate and unacceptably biased in favor of the United States, given that the information warfare page is not only already and itself highly US-centric but also that Wikipedia apparently lacks a generic or otherwise global page on the battlespace encompassed by the realm of information (with what appears to be the sole exception of this page that deals with part of the Australian Military's information warfare forces and capacity), when we have extensive generic and global pages on naval warfare, space warfare, aerial warfare, airborne warfare and so on. I think that we Wikipedians need to do better than this, so I propose we merge most of the - already US-centric - existing Information Warfare article with this page - perhaps under a new, umbrella title, and that we make a global, generic and international article on information warfare. Jamutaq (talk) 18:29, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Good observation about the lede on the information warfare page. It seems that "Information Operations" is a specialized euphemism of the U.S. military (but also, apparently, used by NATO and I don't know who else). A lot of the content of this page seems specialized to the U.S. It's pretty badly organized. Step 1 is certainly to remove the misleading link to "Information Operations" on the "Information warfare" page. Step 2, expand and globalize the "Information warfare" page, transferring globally applicable material from "Information Operations (United States)". Step 3: either finish merging this page and shut it down, or—and I think maybe I prefer this option—copyedit and refine this page but keep it separate to describe distinctive features of "Information Operations" in the U.S. Also note: there is a lot of information on Wikipedia about these topics, but it's very poorly organized. Check out other pages such as Psychological warfare, Category:Psychological warfare and Political warfare. shalom, groupuscule (talk) 18:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Inaccurate history of Information Operations provided on wiki

The article lists the WW2 tactical 23rd Ghost Army as being the origin of Information Operations yet offers non academic sources if at all, while completely ignoring units that were part of the Ghost Army in operations conducted in Italy. It neither makes sense in the context of how PSYWAR or coordinating units were organized or commanded in WW2, nor does it appropriately define the origination of the U.S. military's information operations apparatus as it existed from 1941 to 1945. Greyghost23 (talk) 01:20, 8 April 2024 (UTC)