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Thursday, 18 April 2024

Home of Veshom Cavalry Regiment

venamur et scimus hostem movere

"We Hunt and know the Enemy as He moves"

Who we are:

A small group that supports Information Operators by hunting and watching the enemy as he moves. We gather immediately actionable and long range information about groups working to undermine Democracies which are accountable to its people. 

  • We operate in the OSINT environment
  • we notify vetted Information Operators about what enemies of democracy are saying, doing, and estimates about their real intentions by  finding them, watching them when they do not move, how they react to an operation.
  • We expose them to the public and to information operators for more direct action.
  • We operate ahead of on the flanks and rear of information operating groups, equivalent to a reconnaissance or cavalry missions

Equipped
  • we are more equipped for surveillance and recognizance than mass attacking
  • we avoid becoming decisively engaged by passing on the fight to another group
  • this allows us to keep our digital eyes on the enemy
  • We are a much smaller team of specialists than the fighting groups we serve
  • We are experienced bonkers who have learned to find and track the enemy

Operations
  • Once vetted "Scouts" we work anonymously in chats
  • independently, in pairs or small groups
  • OSINT surveillance in a specialty areas 
  • Reports systematically and as needed to larger groups
  • Conducts Bonks and reporting for rules violations only if  timely actions is required, then moved away.
  • meet together anonymously in private chat forums to exchange information for collective analysis so we can pass it on as as Unit report
If  you have some skills and/or willing to learn and  occasionally participate in group projects like this,
DM @VCGScout06 "Interested in More info"

Friday, 5 April 2024

Battle Planning and Operations with 100 Km of the Zero Line: post Russian Invasion of Ukraine


Exec summary. 

Battle planning and operations require adjustments based on what we have learned from the  Russian invasion of Ukraine. The scope of this paper is to spatially explore100 km either side of the zero line, in the direction of  battle from Orbital heights to Undersea depths. We want to look at Pre, during and post battle time periods. and explore the following activities in each segmented space:

  • Command and Control
  • Units active in the space
  • Control measures
  • Activities
  • coordination and spatial deconfliction
  • Degraded mode operational planning at every level and system


What are the  plan Prep Phases?

  • Staff Analysis
  • Commanders Guidance
  • Staff Planning
  • MEta



  • Planning the battle
  • Intelligence Preparation
  • Preparing the battle field
  • Preparing the forces
  • Preparing the Supply Chain
  • Rehearsal & Adjustment

What are the Relative Zero Lines segments? ( forward & Backward )

Support

  • 0 - 100 Enemy Orbital Recon & Surveillance
  • 0-20 Resource Support C5 enemy Recon & Surveillance
  • 0-10 Tactical support C5, enemy Recon & Surveillance

  • Battle

  • 0 (LOC)
  • 0+10 Maneuver

  • Disruption

  • 0+ 20 Enemy Tactical support Recon
  • 0+40 Recon  & Surveillance
  • 0 + 100 Orbital Recon & Surveillance
  • What are the Weapon Coordination Dimensions?

    Air   (High to Low Physical Space)

    • Tactical Drones
    • Tactical Aircraft 
    • High altitude Air Defense
    • High altitude Missile
    • Loitering munition operations
    • Tactical Artillery
    • Orbital
    • Communication
    • Frequency Spectrum
    • WIFI/Bluetooth

    Ground  

    • Armor
    • Infantry
    • Engineers
    • Air Defense
    • Ground Support Drone support
    • Ground  Support Artillery
    • Ground Force Launched loitering munitions 
    • Ground  Support Air Defense
    • Ground  Support CAS
    • Communication
    • Frequency Spectrum
    • WIFI/Bluetooth

    Sea 

    •  

    Cognitive-Information

    • Deception
    • Social-Media
    • Psychological operations
    • Civil
    • Information operations



     https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2023/april/cognitive-warfare-maneuvering-human-dimension

    Saturday, 9 March 2024

    NAFO

     

    North Atlantic Fella Organization

    The North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFOFrenchOrganisation des Fella de l'Atlantique nordOFAN, a play on NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an Internet meme and social media movement dedicated to countering Russian propaganda and disinformation about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2][3][4] It has been categorised as a form of information warfare.[2]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(group)


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/01/nafo-ukraine-russia/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/world/middleeast/ukraine-memes-russia-fundraising.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-internet-army-of-nafo-fellas-fights-russian-trolls-and-rewards-donors-with-dogs-11664271002 https://www.politico.eu/article/nafo-doge-shiba-russia-putin-ukraine-twitter-trolling-social-media-meme/ https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/europe/ukraine-nafo-russian-trolls-intl/index.html https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-war-trucks-trolls-tourniquets/ https://www.kyivpost.com/post/204 https://kyivindependent.com/making-sense-of-ukrainian-memes-from-watermelons-to-saint-javelin/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/06/russia-ukraine-soft-power-culture-diplomacy-fellas-nafo/ https://cepa.org/article/nafos-fellas-must-evolve/ https://gizmodo.com/15-memes-nafo-russia-ukraine-war-trolls-putin-zelensky-1850471235 https://news.usni.org/2023/04/17/feds-investigating-former-sailor-behind-pro-russian-donbass-devushka-accounts https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/08/31/a-virtual-army-of-impish-cartoon-pooches-is-waging-war-on-russia https://www.wired.com/story/take-down-trump-truth-social/

    Wednesday, 28 February 2024

    Troll Gardens: Every Activist group now gets Troll Training

     Troll Farms of all kinds are growing because they work, and people are willing to pay for information operations supporting their point of view. Exposing them  has only made them morph into less recognizable forms. with a central control group ands decentralized communicators, they are on both the Left and  Right and are active in this  2024 election-case. I propose an example group on each side, but there are many



    Troll Farms now use a message control group, which analyzes communication momentary trends, develops a response strategy, and then farms the messages out to locally specific volunteers and bots to communicate the counter message.

    Campaigns have always gathered supporters to help them communicate their message  Now every politically active groups may be beginning to use tools troll farm tactics with which to weaponize information.

    • Dis, Mis, and Mal information Amplification
    • Dis, Mis, and Mal information Suppression
    • Twists on real information
    • Tactics
      • Astroturfing
      • DARVO
      • Glorifying their candidate to
      • villainizing their opponent

    Two Activist group case studies, both with their own troll farm networks, One Left and one Right 

    On the Right

    Turning Point USA, 

    https://www.tpusa.com/

    a non-profit political organization. Turning Point USA's  founder, Charlie Kirk, opened up the Republican National Convention this summer.  

    TPUSA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom.

    • Control Group: Web site and Headquarters
    • locally specific volunteers: Chapters of Student Groups across the country

    On the Left

     ATI / Civic Listening Corps

    Through our volunteer network, we operate campaigns to understand and combat misinformation and disinformation impacting our every aspect of our life. We coordinate with stakeholders across advocacy, academia, and journalism sectors to ensure insights are shared and accessible. We are actively monitoring problematic narratives online concerning elections and democracy, public health, climate, civil rights, and international conflict.


    As we enter the 2024 election season there is more troll work than ever. I propose legislation that all groups clearly identify themselves in political information operations, and  information disfunction is documented and be subject to neutral part audit with a public release of reports, and violations fined,  since self regulation has not worked.

     

    Harvest Articles about Troll Farms

    https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech-gaming/almost-all-of-facebooks-top-christian-pages-are-run-by-foreign-troll-farms/

    These groups, based largely in Kosovo and Macedonia, have been particularly successful when it comes to targeting American Christians. Though they split their efforts among multiple pages, they are mostly operated by the same groups. Collectively, their Christian Facebook pages reach about 75 million users a month — an audience 20 times the size of the next largest Christian Facebook page.

    An in-depth look inside the Russian troll factory in St. Petersburg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-troll-factory.html

    Russian troll describes work in the troll factory: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/russian-troll-describes-work-infamous-misinformation-factory-n821486

    A former Russian troll explains how trolls are taught to spread fake news: http://time.com/5168202/russia-troll-internet-research-agency/

    A former Russian troll describes work in the troll factory as like being in Orwell’s world: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/17/a-former-russian-troll-speaks-it-was-like-being-in-orwells-world/

    The activist who worked as a mole for Mueller and uncovered the troll farm in the Mueller indictment: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594062887/some-russians-see-u-s-investigation-into-russian-election-meddling-as-a-soap-ope

    The decent Russians working inside the troll factory trying to take it down: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-notorious-kremlin-linked-troll-farm-and-the-russians-trying-to-take-it-down/2017/10/06/c8c4b160-a919-11e7-9a98-07140d2eed02_story.html

    Even many Russians can’t stand what the troll farm is doing according to The Moscow Times: https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-kremlins-trolls-go-west-35651

    Outstanding three-part video series in the New York Times on Russian disinformation and the troll program, “Operation Infektion”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html?auth=login-email&login=email&auth=login-email

    US Internal Troll Farms Aimed Internally

     

    RD: 2-28-24


     

    Turning Point USA, 

    https://www.tpusa.com/

    a non-profit political organization. Turning Point USA's  founder, Charlie Kirk, opened up the Republican National Convention this summer.  

    A Left Biased article  about them


    Left Leaning Farms


    The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) is a national, non-partisan research center on young people's civic engagement.

    https://circle.tufts.edu/

    Tufts

    National Conference on Citizenship

    National Conference On Citizenship

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Conference_on_Citizenship

    he NCoC to now operate under a Federal Charter. A Federal Charter is federal statue that establishes a co-operation between the government and organizations, agencies, or institutions. In 1953, the goal of the Congressional Charter was to empower “the NCoC to translate its ideals and objectives into realities. Plans for the future include both long-range and immediate projects and activates. The Conference will initiate and conduct some of these activities directly. Other, it will encourage and assist organizations and agencies in States and communities to initiate and carry on. ”There are approximately 1,478,000 non-profits in America—94 of them are chartered by Congress


    The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) is a national, non-partisan research center on young people's civic engagement.

    Research Date: 2-27-24

    Civil Listening Corps (See Below) was Founded and is controlled by ATI ( See Below). This is a multi-tiered Troll Farm. This appears to be a network of left leaning companies, agencies, academics, non profits who monitor online communication, analyze trends and escalate "problem" traffic to educational content writers and social media network influencers to target specific demographic groups an d create a common counter message to the "problem" traffic.

    Yes - this is a troll Farm that monitors troll Farms, But they track Trends they choose to:


    NAFO

      a list of their "Problem" issue Trends was published monthly for a while


    Civic Listening Corps

    Through our volunteer network, we operate campaigns to understand and combat misinformation and disinformation impacting our every aspect of our life. We coordinate with stakeholders across advocacy, academia, and journalism sectors to ensure insights are shared and accessible. We are actively monitoring problematic narratives online concerning elections and democracy, public health, climate, civil rights, and international conflict.

    https://www.civiclistening.org/


    algorithmic Transparency Institute (ati )

    https://ati.io/

    Funders

    • Craig Newmark Philanthropies
    • Jampart Charitable Trust
    • Knight Foundation
    • Omidyar Network
    • National Conference on Citizenship
    • Reset.tech
    • Robert Pozen
    • Schmidt Futures
    • The Hopewell Fund
    https://ati.io/funders/

    Earlier work has been funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Luminate, The Brown Institute, and The Tow Center.

    John Schmidt, Engagement Coordinator

    John is the Engagement Coordinator for the Civic Listening Corps. He facilitates all of our volunteer events including guided listening shifts, training, and other opportunities for volunteers to combat misinformation.

    Prior to his start at the Algorithmic Transparency Institute, John was a staff member of the Stopping Cyber Suppression program at Common Cause, where he trained volunteer social media monitors to identify democracy disinformation in their online networks and beyond, as well as how to use their personal social media platform to push back on disinformation narratives without amplifying them. 

    John graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University with a B.A. in Political Science with a Public Policy Focus. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Myra Miranda, Partnerships Manager

    Myra is the Partnerships Manager at ATI.  She is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and managing external relationships with partners that seek to engage in misinformation efforts that impact their work. As part of the Civic Listening Corps, Myra is responsible for recruiting and onboarding civil society organizations to incorporate their staff and volunteers into the program. 

    Prior to joining ATI, Myra served as the California Civic Engagement Manager with NALEO Educational Fund, spearheading census, elections and COVID-19 campaigns to empower Latino communities. Previously, Myra assisted and led federal, state and local campaigns in key races since 2016. Myra graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Riverside. 

    Kaitlyn Dowling, Senior Analyst

    Kaitlyn is ATI’s Senior Analyst, working closely with other ATI staff to analyze content from our Civic Listening Corps volunteers and to elevate emerging misinformation narratives to our partners for action. Previously, Kaitlyn served as the Senior Editor in the Information Disorder Lab, housed in the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this role, she managed a team of researchers investigating and reporting on political mis- and disinformation spreading on the social web leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Kaitlyn has also worked with a variety of organizations in executing their communications strategies, including Harvard Law School and as Content Director of Women Online, a boutique digital PR and marketing firm. Kaitlyn graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science from the University of New Hampshire.

    https://ati.io/


    .io is a country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) for the Chagos Archipelago, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). However, it has become a generic domain and is popular in the tech world since IO or I/O means input/output in computer science

     

    Common Cause

    https://www.commoncause.org/

    Among their other activities, fights election disinformation.  The use an Information Disorder Framework developed by the EU. they have an.int domain on their website

    to register in the .int domain, the applicant must be an intergovernmental organization that meets the requirements found in RFC 1591. In brief, the .int domain is used for registering organizations established by international treaties between or among national governments

    https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/voting-and-elections/stopping-cyber-suppression-and-voting-disinformation/


    https://rm.coe.int/information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-researc/168076277c