HQ$History - United States Special Operations Command
HQ$History - United States Special Operations Command
HQ$History - United States Special Operations Command
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ences in support of U.S. objectives in areas that<br />
crossed GCC boundaries.<br />
The JMISC operates by, with, and through<br />
the GCCs, and works closely with the interagency<br />
to identify how best to reach out to certain<br />
segments of the foreign population. The JMISC<br />
consisted of functional, cultural, and geographical<br />
personnel who brought a “combined arms”<br />
approach to tackling the information war.<br />
To assist in synchronizing operational efforts<br />
between the JMISC and the Joint Information<br />
<strong>Operations</strong> Warfighting Center (JIOWC),<br />
Strategic <strong>Command</strong> (STRATCOM) assigned a<br />
liaison officer (LNO) to JMISC for 2007. The<br />
LNO was instrumental in identifying overlaps<br />
and gaps in each of the organizations’ missions<br />
and enhanced cooperation between the two commands.<br />
The JMISC also directly supported the GCCs<br />
by providing personnel to assist in current and<br />
future planning, and, at times, augments GCC<br />
staffs for extended periods of time. In 2007, to<br />
reduce operational OIF and OEF PSYOP staff<br />
shortfalls, JMISC personnel augmented the following<br />
units: the IO Task Force (IOTF) in Iraq;<br />
the CENTCOM Joint Psychological <strong>Operations</strong><br />
Task Force (JPOTF) in Qatar; and a SOF Task<br />
Force in Iraq. The JMISC also supported the<br />
GWOT missions of USSOCOM, the GCCs, Joint<br />
Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S.<br />
Ambassadors, and the interagency by providing<br />
personnel support and sophisticated strategic<br />
PSYOP products.<br />
Since October 2004, first the JPSE and then<br />
the JMISC developed several programs to support<br />
the GWOT. Examples of those programs<br />
follow:<br />
(1) Developed and coordinated an expanded<br />
Trans-Regional PSYOP Program (ETRP) that<br />
increased the authorities, objectives and audiences<br />
of the Trans-Regional PSYOP (TRP)<br />
Program. The GCCs and USSOCOM, when the<br />
supported commander, could conduct PSYOP in<br />
support of DOD GWOT activities.<br />
(2) On 5 April 2007, the Secretary of Defense<br />
approved the Trans-Regional Web Initiative<br />
(TRWI), authorizing the GCCs to establish web<br />
sites tailored to foreign audiences. The JPSE<br />
and USSOCOM developed and coordinated a<br />
centrally-managed web site architecture where<br />
GCCs’ counterterror and theater security cooperation<br />
web sites were located in order to<br />
achieve cost efficiencies and enhance quality and<br />
synchronization. JMISC facilitated the establishment<br />
of a MNF-I web site to counter extremist<br />
ideology and promote security and stability<br />
within Iraq. The site became operational on 1<br />
October 2007. JMISC served as the transregional<br />
synchronizer for all content for TRWI<br />
web sites.<br />
(3) JMISC executed activities in support of<br />
USCENTCOM efforts that were designed to<br />
reduce the flow of foreign fighters and bombmaking<br />
material into Iraq and Afghanistan.<br />
JMISC also worked to deter the spread of<br />
extremist idologies. JMISC was developing a<br />
proof of concept prototype for GCCs to use as<br />
their template to launch web sites to counter<br />
extremist ideology under the auspices of TRWI.<br />
(4) JMISC provided GCCs with quarterly<br />
regional magazines for foreign audiences. These<br />
magazines support GCCs counterterrorism and<br />
theater security goals and objectives, which<br />
included countering violent extreme organizations,<br />
diminishing trans-regional activities such<br />
as piracy, WMD proliferation, promoting global<br />
security and stability, synchronizing the global<br />
CT message, and building support for U.S.<br />
actions and policies. Three editions of the U.S.<br />
Southern <strong>Command</strong> (USSOUTHCOM) magazine,<br />
titled Dialogo, have been published and<br />
distributed. The USCENTCOM magazine,<br />
Unipath, and the U.S. Northern <strong>Command</strong><br />
(USNORTHCOM) magazine, Agora, were to be<br />
published and distributed by April 2008.<br />
(5) Since 2004, JMISC and its predecessors<br />
provided a long-range short-wave radio capability<br />
to support USCENTCOM’s requirement to<br />
broadcast daily programming in support of ongoing<br />
operations in Afghanistan.<br />
(6) CJCS funded a Mali documentary. The<br />
CJCS funded $1.5 million to provide assistance<br />
in developing a documentary that captures the<br />
moderate, tolerant tenets of Islam through<br />
hand-written manuscripts passed down from<br />
Imam to Imam for the past 400 years. The<br />
National Endowment for Democracy and U.S.<br />
Agency for International Development (USAID)<br />
were championing the completion of this project<br />
with an objective of getting the documentary<br />
into Muslim theaters in fall 2008.<br />
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