Ideas as weapons : influence and perception in modern warfare / edited by G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III ; foreword by H.R. McMaster.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-438) and index.

PART 1. GEOPOLITICAL: Exploiting structural weaknesses in terrorist networks: Information blitzkrieg and related strategies / Calvert W. Jones ; The limits of military information strategies / Philip M. Taylor ; Defining the War on Terror / Philip G. Wasielewski ; Information warfare / Thomas X. Hammes ; The power of weakness / William S. Lind ; Strategic communications: A mandate for the United States / Jeffrey B. Jones ; Reflections on psychological operations: The imperative of engaging a conflicted population / David Passage ; New tools, new rules: International law and information operations / Duncan B. Hollis -- PART 2. STRATEGIC: Learning counterinsurgency; Observations from soldiering in Iraq / David H. Petraeus ; Thoughts on journalism and the military / Tom Fenton ; Strategic innovation: Integrating national power to win in Iraq / John A. Nagl ; Maneuvering against the mind / Frank G. Hoffman ; Clausewitz's theory of war and information operations / William M. Darley ; Information (in) operations: More than technology / James P. West ; Winning on the information battlefield: Is the story getting out? / Roger S. Galbraith ; In defense of military Public Affairs doctrine / J. D. Scanlon ; Waging an effective strategic communications campaign in the War on Terror / Timothy J. Doorey ; Marketing: An overlooked asset of information operations / Stoney Trent and James L. Doty, III ; Religion in information operations: More than a "War of Ideas" / Pauletta Otis ; Telling the Afghan military story ... their war / Charles W. Ricks ; Amy IO is PSYOPS: Influencing more with less / Curtis D. Boyd ; Estimates, execution, and error: Losing the War of Perception in Vietnam, 1960-1973 / Eric M. Walters --

PART 3. OPERATIONAL: Iraq and a singular, enduring information failure / Bing West ; Between war and peace: Low intensity conflict doctrine and the Iraqi Scenario / Jose L. Delgado ; Are we outsmarting ourselves? / Keith Oliver ; Marines are from Mars, Iraqis are from Venus / Ben Connable ; Clouding the issue: Intelligence collection analysis and dissemination during Operation Iraqi Freedom / George J. Stroumpos ; Massing effects in the information domain: A case study in aggressive information operations / Thomas F. Metz, Mark W. Garrett, James E. Hutton and Timothy W. Bush ; Getting inside the cultural context and achieving intelligence success: Strategic debriefing in the Iraq Survey Group / John A. Wahlquist ; Insights from Colombia's "Prolonged War" / Carlos Alberto Ospina Ovalle ; Winning in the Pacific: The Special Operations Forces' indirect approach / David P. Fridovich and Fred T. Krawchuk -- PART 4. TACTICAL: Tactical information operations in West Rashid: An Iraqi National Police Battalion and its assigned U. S. Transition Team / E. Lawson Quinn ; "But how do I do it?" Tactical information operations and the planning process / Phillip M. Bragg ; Operation Iraqi Freedom II: Information and influence in South-Central Iraq / Clint Nussberger ; The massacre that wasn't / Ben Connable ; "Census operations" and information management / Morgan G. Mann ; Frustration / James McNeive ; Getting out the word: Information operations on the ground in Iraq / Kyle Norton ; Fighting for perceptions: Tactical IO in 2004 Iraq / Jennifer Morris Mayne ; By other means / Zachary D. Martin ; Patrolling Ar Ramadi / Tom Sloan ; The privatization of victory / Roger D. Huffstetler, Jr. ; "Twenty-eight articles": Fundamentals of company-level counterinsurgency / David Kilcullen -- Conclusion: Information in conflict / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III.

Foreword / H.R. McMaster -- Acknowledgments / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III -- U.S. military ranks -- Introduction / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III -- Geopolitical -- Strategic -- Operational -- Tactical -- Conclusion: Information in conflict / G.J. David, Jr., and T.R. McKeldin III.