To be clear, I’m not advocating for it. I’m just explaining: One of the core functions of the intelligence community, is to manage perceptions globally for the

To be clear, I’m not advocating for it. I’m just explaining: One of the core functions of the intelligence community, is to manage perceptions globally for the five eyes partners, led by the United States and the 16 intelligence agencies that comprise the intelligence community It might be easier to think about it as the marketing budget that is spent on non-obvious influence Reading Edward Bernays’s and his 1920 propaganda book will tell you everything you need to know about how we go about that process In function, though it’s not the military determining those things, typically it’s Congress and other civilian oversight boards all the way up to the president dictating what those info operations are who they Target and determining impacts, etc., and risks