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08-23-2004, 04:43 AM
Uninhabited Air Vehicles for Psychological
Operations —Leveraging Technology
for PSYOP Beyond 2010
Maj Douglas W. Jaquish, USAF
Preface
This paper is more than just a vision of novel technologies that UAVs may bring to the joint force for PSYOP. The U.S. Air Force has adopted the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review suggestion to shift our thinking from threat-based to capability-based planning. In this regard, a major challenge for PSYOP is leveraging emerging technology for capability that reaches a complex audience. These complexities include diversity in education, language, and culture, and access to a wide array of telecommunications tools. Bringing PSYOP to bear with strategic effect requires a keen knowledge of both the enabling technologies and this target audience. UAVs show promise to be one of the enabling technologies for PSYOP.
I caveat this paper with the alibi that I am not a PSYOP or UAV expert, and I am not privy to any efforts integrating UAVs with PSYOP. As a former EF-111 Electronic Warfare Officer and F-15E Flight Test Weapon Systems Officer, I have both an appreciation for offensive information operations and a passion to see DOD leverage emerging technologies for the success of the joint team.
I would like to thank the staff of the Center for Strategy and Technology at the Air University for their direction in completing this paper. I also thank the visionary leaders in AFSOC, the UAV Battle Lab, and the Air Force Research Labs whose efforts are forging the tools and operational concepts to employ UAVs across the joint force.
Full article http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/jaquish.html
Operations —Leveraging Technology
for PSYOP Beyond 2010
Maj Douglas W. Jaquish, USAF
Preface
This paper is more than just a vision of novel technologies that UAVs may bring to the joint force for PSYOP. The U.S. Air Force has adopted the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review suggestion to shift our thinking from threat-based to capability-based planning. In this regard, a major challenge for PSYOP is leveraging emerging technology for capability that reaches a complex audience. These complexities include diversity in education, language, and culture, and access to a wide array of telecommunications tools. Bringing PSYOP to bear with strategic effect requires a keen knowledge of both the enabling technologies and this target audience. UAVs show promise to be one of the enabling technologies for PSYOP.
I caveat this paper with the alibi that I am not a PSYOP or UAV expert, and I am not privy to any efforts integrating UAVs with PSYOP. As a former EF-111 Electronic Warfare Officer and F-15E Flight Test Weapon Systems Officer, I have both an appreciation for offensive information operations and a passion to see DOD leverage emerging technologies for the success of the joint team.
I would like to thank the staff of the Center for Strategy and Technology at the Air University for their direction in completing this paper. I also thank the visionary leaders in AFSOC, the UAV Battle Lab, and the Air Force Research Labs whose efforts are forging the tools and operational concepts to employ UAVs across the joint force.
Full article http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/jaquish.html