Gerry Osborne
British Army colonel; Strategic Communications Manager/Director at the UK Ministry of Defence (2012–2014); delivered strategic communications campaigns for UK activity in Ukraine; project director for capacity-building missions in Ukraine; attended the July 2014 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence meeting in Riga that contributed to a study on Russia’s information campaign against Ukraine
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| Occupation | Military officer (strategic communications) |
| Known for | MoD Strategic Communications Manager/Director (2012–2014); Ukraine capacity-building and strategic communications work; NATO StratCom Centre of Excellence involvement (2014) |
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Gerry Osborne (Colonel) served as Strategic Communications Manager/Director at the UK Ministry of Defence between 2012 and 2014. In that role he delivered strategic communications campaigns for UK activity in Ukraine and acted as project director for capacity-building missions in Ukraine. He attended the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence meeting in Riga in July 2014, which contributed to a 2014 study on Russia’s information campaign against Ukraine. His work sits within the same early Ukraine strategic-communications cluster as personnel from Military Strategic Effects (including Lt Col Ewen Murchison) and later capacity-building efforts involving the 77th Brigade and the Joint Information Activities Group.[1]
Career
Osborne’s MoD strategic-communications posting (2012–2014) overlapped with the period of intensified UK information-operations support to Ukraine following the 2014 events. Reporting based on NATO and Ukrainian documents places him among the British officers involved in delivering campaigns and capacity-building for Ukrainian strategic communications. The July 2014 Riga meeting of the NATO StratCom Centre of Excellence, which he attended, formed part of the early coordination on Ukraine’s information environment and contributed to the 2014 study of Russia’s information campaign.[1]
His role connects to the broader MoD information-activities architecture that included Military Strategic Effects (successor to Targeting and Information Operations), the Defence Media Operations Centre, and the later formation of the 77th Brigade from earlier media-operations and psychological-operations units.[1]
See also
- Military Strategic Effects
- Ewen Murchison
- Phil Jones
- 77th Brigade
- Joint Information Activities Group
- Defence Media Operations Centre
- Kevin Stratford-Wright
- NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
External links
- MintPress News – “How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine” (2022)
- Related MintPress News reporting on Ukraine information operations
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 David Miller, “How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine”, MintPress News, 2022.