Mission Command and social media are a potent combination that could easily exaggerate violence and produce counter productive outcomes.
The flip side is stringent publication protocols & editorial tramlines that slow down engagement.
Most importantly it all depends on a degree of cultural understanding that is hard enough to do in a an information ecosystem you have a sense of but much harder when you don’t.
This is the challenge of participative war (read #radicalwar) and the armed forces are no way ready for it!
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See also silk underwear... one of the better and quicker to see service military innovations to come out of the UK since possibly the Second World War...
If I just reply to your thread @jwmeiser then my point will get lost.
it just isn't manoeuvre warfare. And I don't care how many people assert that it is. It isn't. you just have to look closely.
So I can come back to this now.
The reason I think we need to be careful about this is because all we see are the external indicators. And we end up confirming theoretical presumptions rather than testing them.