I'm not going to go through the entire list for you, but ask yourself this: what would the motivation be for the Defense Department to produce a report which invalidates your cherished notions?
Secondly, since you are always keen to give Rumsfeld and Gang the benefit of doubt - above and beyond any sensible application, then you MUST assume that the Defense Department would not staff a strategic board with morons that oppose your world view.
Appendix B: Strategic Communication Task Force Membership
Chairman Mr. Vince Vitto C.S. Draper Laboratory
- Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism
Executive Secretary Mr. Mark Ellis OUSD
Members
Dr. Anita Jones University of Virginia
- Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
- "Challenges for the Future," Military Operations Research Society's Phalanx Magazine, March 1996.
- "Engineering in the Fast Lane", The Bridge, National Academy Press, Vol. 25 No. 4, September 1995.
- "Where Economic Security and National Security Intersect," Army Research, Development and Acquisition Bulletin, July-August 1994.
Mr. Bran Ferren Applied Minds, Inc.
(seems an odd pick until you note his connections)
disinfopedia.org
Currently held positions include National Security Agency Advisory Board, National Reconnaissance Office Technical Advisory Group, Army Science Board Member, Defense Science Board member, Chief of Naval Operations Executive Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Group, Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Technology, Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Committee, National Imagery and Mapping Agency Advisory Forum
Mr. Bruce Gregory George Washington University
smpa.gwu.edu
Director and Research Professor, Public Diplomacy Institute
Expertise
Public diplomacy, media and national security, strategic international communication, national security strategy and process, U.S. international broadcasting
Mr. Dan Kuehl National Defense University
Dr. Joe Markowitz Consultant
- Intelligence in Support of the War Against Terrorism (Co-Chairs: Dr. Joe Markowitz and ADM Bill Studeman) This study, co-sponsored by USD(AT&L), ASD(C3I), and DCI will identify capabilities, technologies and approaches for strengthening intelligence in support of the war against terrorism. (CDR Hughes)
- Managing Foreign Intelligence by
Focusing on Ends vice Means
(Co-
Chairs:
Dr. Craig Fields and Dr. Joe Markowitz) This study, co-sponsored by USD(AT&L) and the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (C3I), will address alternative ways of managing US foreign intelligence endeavors in support of national security, by focusing not on the means by which intelligence information is collected, but rather the ends it is to serve. The Final Report is in Draft. (CDR Waugh)
Mr. David Morey DMG, Inc.
David Morey, founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of DMG, Inc., and partner in Core Strategy Group, is one of the leading strategic communications consultants in America. Prior to establishing DMG, Inc. and Core Strategy Group, he was Director of International Affairs and Special Advisor to the Chairman at J.E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. He is currently Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, specializing in media and politics. Recently, Mr. Morey served as a Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on Public Diplomacy.
Mr. Robert Nesbit The Mitre Corporation
Dr. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins University
Michael Vlahos is currently a senior member of the Joint Warfare Analysis Department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.
His research into the war on terror led to the 2001 book, Terror’s Mask: Insurgency Within Islam, now a text in the Navy War College Strategy Department and the University of Chicago Islamic Studies Department.
Mr. Vlahos is a former fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation and the Center for Naval Analysis and headed the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs at the U.S. State Department.
Previously, he served as the director of the Securities Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
He has authored several books published by Johns Hopkins/SAIS and the U.S. State Department, and his commentary has appeared in Washington Quarterly, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, National Review and the Times Literary Supplement.
Government Advisors
Mr. Joel Fischman Department of State
OFFICE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS (IIP/SC)
- Senior Advisor Joel Fischman
Mr. David Jakubek DDR&E
- Lieutenant Commander David Jakubek, USN
- Command and Control expert
Mr. Chris Lamb National Defense University
- capabilities and planning expert
- threat assessment
- Defense Planning for CBW: A Policy Challenge, Chris Lamb, Presentation given at the Military Operations Research Society Chemical-Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction Workshop.
Mr. John Matheny Department of Defense SO/LIC
- appears to have been an aide to George H.W. Bush
Mr. Lloyd Neighbors Department of State
- Public Affairs Officer, China, Dept. of State 2003
Mr. William Parker Department of State
OFFICE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS (IIP/SC)
- Office Director William V. Parker
Mr. Robert Reilly Department of Defense
Support
Ms. Nicole Coene SAIC
Mr. Mark Mateski SAIC
DSB Secretariat
LtCol David Robertson DSB
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