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The Information Operations Center of Excellence

The War of Ideas and the Idea of War

The good information strategist must be the master of a whole host of skills: understanding the kind of knowledge that needs to be created; managing and properly distributing one's own information flows while disrupting the enemy's; crafting persuasive messages that shore up the will of one's own people and allies while demoralizing one's opponents; and, of course, defeating the enemy at the right time, in the right way.

—John Arquilla

   

Prof. John Arquilla testifies before the House Armed Services Committee:

Thursday, September 18, 2008 – 10:00 am – 2118 Rayburn – Open
The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee will meet to hear testimony on Lessons for Countering al Qa’ida and the Way Ahead.

Dr. John Arquilla (pdf)
Professor, Department of Defense Analysis
Naval Postgraduate School
Author of Worst Enemy: The Reluctant Transformation of the American Military

The Information Operations Center exists to:

  • advance the goal of information operations as a core military competency
  • support the DOD commitment to transform our military capabilities
  • provide avenues for research for information operations, asymmetrical warfare, The Global War on Terrorism and unconventional thought

The curriculum is designed for both the specialist who will be assigned to an information operations position and the generalist who will be assigned to the operations directorate. The curriculum includes a core of military art and operations, the human dimension of warfare (psycho-social), analytical methods, and atypical sequence customized for each student.  Additionally, each student will have an elective sequence designed to further develop an in-depth understanding of joint information operations.

Core Areas of Graduate Program

  • Military Art and Operations
  • Emerging Security Challenges
  • Information Operations
  • Analytical Methods and Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Processing and Applications
  • Thesis