Re-Integrating Influence and Cyber Operations

<p>The art of influence operations as a subset to information operations as well as personnel that practice influence operations for the military have been doctrinally removed from conducting cyber operations. With the openness that the military has created to social networking as a tool for soldiers the fact that many of the greatest cyber espionage tactics involve a form of influence operations tactic often in the form of social engineering to gain maintain and exploit networks. Continued ignorance in this subject area will lead to exploitable vulnerabilities as well as reduce the military capability to utilize potential attack vectors. This research presents the reasons behind the separation and a methodology for getting the two independent operational capabilities to re-integrate and justifies this as the first step towards a Virtual Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance(VISR) capability.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>