Case studies are the starting point for… 1) Storyboard discussions 2) Workshops 3) Exercises 4) Wargames They are applied immediately to today and to over-the-horizon threats, challenges, and opportunities. The focus is the actual discussion and analysis and not some product—unbounded creativity is the educational value. All assumptions and suppositions are to be challenged and turned upside down. The following is only a select sample of titles. Case studies will be chosen according to the program, cohort, and student needs and requests (*click here*)

DRONE GAMIFICATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE—3 levels of psychological terror of bounties for bespoke kills PHILIPPINES’ PERFECT PROPAGANDA FAILS—how dominating the information environment and flooding it with ‘pitch perfect’ propaganda on every platform and wavelength can fail - case study, student exercise META MARKETING—delusions of self-determination PEPSICO’S RACE TO THE BOTTOM—how sideways virality, racism, chaos sell CHEVRON LOBBYING—act locally psyops FACT CHECKING FAILURES—arrogance, ignorance, and distrust DC-VATICAN-SOLIDARITY—one of the most successful influence campaigns in history until CIA spoiled everything six years too late - case study, student exercise SHUTTERING U.S. CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES (IN 18 MONTHS)—influence warfare victory in only the first wave of Beijing education subversion OPERATION UNDERWORLD AGAIN?—the mafia and Navy and lessons for our cyber world OPERATION MINCEMEAT FOR SIXTH GENERATION WARFARE—surgical human and signal intelligence support to deception/disinformation lessons for today THE NEW CHINA FILM SUBVERSION—promethean influence through leveraging independent filmmakers COMANCHE DECEPTION WARFARE OF 250 YEARS—quarter millennia campaign targeting self-deception to defeat Spain/Mexico/Plains Nations/Settlers/Texas Rangers/U.S. Army and direct application to modern warfare SABOTEURS IN TOTAL WAR—imploding the confederacy from within in its final months and lessons for AI COLLAPSING ELECTION INTERFERENCE—how France cracked the code to uses mass deception to preclude foreign election influence CHINA’S PRELOADED NARRATIVES—simple bite-sized sovereignty, racism, humiliation hooks every single Chinese officer and civilian repeats…repeatedly CHINA AND HUMILIATION—how victimization narratives turn into wanton cruelty and genocide today THE FUTURE IS TUNNEL WARFARE—psychological terror in a cyber world ESTONIA/FINLAND INFLUENCE TO DETER—deterrence through primal fear AI SUBVERSION AND SINGULARITY—deception, self-deception, and singularity PURDUE PHARMA STILL, AGAIN—surgical human intelligence and failed deceptions within deceptions TEHRAN FOUNDATIONAL NARRATIVES—subconscious drivers behind expansion CURRENCY, CRYPTO, AND INFLUENCE—how to build or subvert trust without spending a dollar…practical steps SOVIET TRIPLE AGENTS—story of the double, triple agents in forest of mirrors, applied to today’s great power competition CIA EXPRESSIONISM, JAZZ, RAP, AND TODAY ANTIFA/QANON/PROUD BOYS AND SZALÁMITAKTIKA—Russian salami tactics RUBY RIDGE NEGOTIATIONS ECHO IN ETERNITY—how the world learned how to suicide the United States and how to subvert the subversives DEBEERS’ FIRESTORM—how ‘story is truer than truth’ in perpetuity PERSONALITY TEST TRASH—how disinformation (Myers-Briggs) grows legs and becomes a billion-dollar firestorm that metastasizes in corporate America and dating apps THE UNKILLABLE ALPHA MALE MYTH—how disinformation (in this case, not always bad) works to the point that even naturalists must use terminology of a lie like a weather system within a firestorm PERSONALITY TYPE (A/B) GARBAGE—how disinformation goes from inception to mythical proportions that drive lives, dating, and HR LEARNING STYLE INANITY DESTROYS GENERATION OF LEARNING—how so-called scholar-academic-educators fell for junk pseudo-dribble (that just sounds so good and easy) and partially destroyed national school systems for a generation WATER WARS AND STABILIZATION—combines three current conflicts over water and methods to find society capacity through influence SEARCH FOR A HUMAN TOE—how virality works and why truth often has an advantage over disinformation LENIN-KAISER-ZIMMERMAN DESPERATION—how we can expect desperate measures in the throes of a dying government in the future of warfare causing more war THE INVENTION OF BLUE—how our brains create reality and language influences biases BUMBLE’S STRATOSPHERIC RISE AND FALL—AI and apps prone to success and failure through storytelling ELDERS OF ZION STOLEN BY FAR LEFT/RIGHT—2,000 years of prejudice and fear into 125-year-old disinformation/fantasy campaign into myth perpetuated by new age healers, Nazis, extremes at all ends…why some disinformation won’t die AUDIO PRIMING—why ‘system 1 / 2 thinking’ model is outdated and misleading…the subconscious controls or influences even our most logical prefontal cortex processes PERCEPTION OF BLACK—our bodies react without physical precedent SWEDEN SOCIETAL CAPACITY AGAINST DISINFORMATION—empowering people with confidence to see through lies, even those AI-generated/boosted SLAVE STATES COMMUNICATION NETWORKS—how no absolute police state can stop influence and communications networks to flourish invisibly ISIS IN AFRICA FORCING THE WEST TO AMPLIFY ITS NARRATIVES—trapping the enemy in the horns of dilemma MEME OUTRAGE USED TO BECOME VIRAL—how countering disinformation campaigns serve only to make the original disinformation go ‘super viral’… COMPTON POLICE INFLUENCE GANGS AGAINST BLACK PANTHERS—when influence goes south…play with snakes and get bitten… ILLEGAL UNDERGROUND IRANIAN CINEMA—collapsing revolutionary narratives INFLUENCE OF ALGERIAN CINEMA—narratives directly changing policy THE ‘AMERICAN NARRATIVE’…an assassin, a business, land of a thousand nations, Greece incarnate THE ‘U.S. NARRATIVE’—utopia never, the weakest link is becomes the strongest U.S. INVASION DETERRENCE—Waffle House, Appalachia, Ozark, Baltimore, Memphis, Maine, Texas BLOODY SUNDAY—the art of extreme listening when death is on the line
SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING—PTSD from the darkest recesses of terror
RECANTATIONS TO DERADICALIZATION—lessons in influence from Egypt, Libya, North Carolina