Information Environment Awareness

What is the importance of information warfare within military activities?

  • Competition between the United States and other countries to control, degrade, manipulate, and corrupt the information environment.

What instrument of national power may be used to advance America’s strategic interests on the international stage?

  • Information

What countries have used social media to conduct disinformation and propaganda offensives targeting individual Airmen?

  • Russia and China

False stories of unjustified strikes against an adversary could create doubt about the reliability of sensors and weapons and cause hesitation.

  • True

What makes it cheap and easy to target Military and veterans for intelligence gathering and influence campaigns?

  • Social media

Adversaries can determine how close Airmen are connected to others by __________.

  • analyzing the volume, frequency, and pattern of Airmen’s communications

What action should you take if you detect or suspect disinformation?

  • Ignore it

How can Airmen begin to pick apart an influence attempt?

  • Recognize, apply, and improve your ability to detect falsehoods

Social media algorithms are designed to prioritize content the audience will engage with shares, reactions, and links, because that’s how they earn advertising revenue.

  • True

Real news reporting spreads faster on the Internet than false news reporting.

  • False

When using the SMART model and analyzing information based on the Two-Source Test phase, what should you be aware of?

  • Question and challenge your own confirmation bias

How does the integrated deterrence concept affect the United States?

  • Information operations against the United States may cause the United States to turn inward focused on domestic matters.