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In 2004 the the DTIO had a staff of 98, including "a psychiatrist, an anthropologist, and other specialist staff", it also also "has contacts with a variety of experts in the United Kingdom in universities and other institutions"<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmdfence/57/5718.htm Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations], Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)</ref>.  There is a dearth of information in the public domain about the DTIO, the following is a partial list of staff or affiliates with the year (or years) in which they are known to be involved with the DTIO
 
In 2004 the the DTIO had a staff of 98, including "a psychiatrist, an anthropologist, and other specialist staff", it also also "has contacts with a variety of experts in the United Kingdom in universities and other institutions"<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmdfence/57/5718.htm Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations], Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)</ref>.  There is a dearth of information in the public domain about the DTIO, the following is a partial list of staff or affiliates with the year (or years) in which they are known to be involved with the DTIO
 
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2009: [[Air Commodore Robert Judson]] <ref>[http://www.iqpc.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=173906&details=178650&langtype=1033#air_commodore_robert_judson 8th Annual Information Operations Europe, Programme], International Quality and Productivity Centre, accessed 09/02/10</ref>
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*2009: Air Commodore [[Robert Judson]] <ref>[http://www.iqpc.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=173906&details=178650&langtype=1033#air_commodore_robert_judson 8th Annual Information Operations Europe, Programme], International Quality and Productivity Centre, accessed 09/02/10</ref>
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*2007-2008: Air Commodore [[Graham Wright]] CBE <ref>[http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/cds/symposia/3%20proceedings/io%2008%20cd%20p.pdf Information Operations and Influence Activity Syposium, 2008], IOIA 2008, Programme, accessed 09/02/10</ref>
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2007-2008: [[Air Commodore Graham Wright]] CBE <ref>[http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/cds/symposia/3%20proceedings/io%2008%20cd%20p.pdf Information Operations and Influence Activity Syposium, 2008], IOIA 2008, Programme, accessed 09/02/10</ref>
 
 
Now Deputy Director, Office of Cyber Security, Cabinet Office <ref>[http://www.1stsecuritynews.com/security/countering-terrorism/ Countering Terrorism in a Changed World], Security News (24/11/09), accessed 09/02/10</ref>
 
Now Deputy Director, Office of Cyber Security, Cabinet Office <ref>[http://www.1stsecuritynews.com/security/countering-terrorism/ Countering Terrorism in a Changed World], Security News (24/11/09), accessed 09/02/10</ref>
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*2004-2005: Air Commodore [[Ian Dugmore]]<ref>[http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20041004230350/http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/whitebook/appointments.pdf A Guide to Appointments and Invitations (August 04)], MOD Foreign Liaison Staff, accessed 09/02/10)</ref>  
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2004-2005: [[Air Commodore Ian Dugmore]]<ref>[http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20041004230350/http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/whitebook/appointments.pdf A Guide to Appointments and Invitations (August 04)], MOD Foreign Liaison Staff, accessed 09/02/10)</ref>  
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*2003: Air Vice Marshal [[Mike Heath]]<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmdfence/57/5718.htm Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations], Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)</ref>
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2003: [[Air Vice Marshal Mike Heath]]<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmdfence/57/5718.htm Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations], Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)</ref>
 
  
 
===Other Staff===
 
===Other Staff===

Revision as of 22:20, 9 February 2010

The Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations (DTIO) is a group within the British Ministry of Defence which is involved in the Information Operations of the UK. It was established in 2001 in order "to ensure that [the MOD's] approach to information operations is fully incorporated into planning and operations" [1]

Activities

Information Operations

Air Vice Marshall Mike Heath who was head of the DTIO during Operation Telic (The British Military's name for the 2003 invasion of Iraq) describes Information Operations thus:

The concept of Information Operations for the military is to garner cross government activity, not just military activity, to contribute towards influence and persuasion. I like to think of it as a continuum, that if you get it right it starts during pre war fighting where you are looking towards dissuasion and coercion; it continues into military operations; and, of course, it then wraps up and it is just as essential that you carry it through into post conflict restoration and reconstitution [2]

Information Operations should be understood as a crossgovernmental practice, for example the information campaign in Operation Telic was lead from the Cabinet Office, with the involvement of the Foreign Office, Home Office and Department for International Development.[3] The DTIO "provides strategic guidance on targeting and the cross-government information campaign, as well as advice to Ministers and the Chiefs of Staff" [4] and works on Information Operations with the Director General, Operational Policy - to form a mutually supporting role in the influence campaign with other groups involved in Media Operations.

Psychological Operations

Psychological Operations (Psyops) are "the tactical end of the strategic information operations whole"[5] and is seen as specifically military in nature as "it is specifically targeted by military means into target audiences" [6]. In the UK Psyops capability is provided by 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group who, in Iraq, were involved in actions such as setting up a coalition sponsored radio station in Basra - Radio Nahrain.[7]

Staff

In 2004 the the DTIO had a staff of 98, including "a psychiatrist, an anthropologist, and other specialist staff", it also also "has contacts with a variety of experts in the United Kingdom in universities and other institutions"[8]. There is a dearth of information in the public domain about the DTIO, the following is a partial list of staff or affiliates with the year (or years) in which they are known to be involved with the DTIO

Directors

Now Deputy Director, Office of Cyber Security, Cabinet Office [11]

Other Staff

2008: Dr George Brander, Capability Adviser Human Factors [14] Dr Brander was a principle psychologist at DERA[15] and is (or was) involved with the Strategic Analysis Group of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory [16]

Affiliations

  • DTIO used the American Information Operations firm the Rendon Group "to provide advice on information campaigns" - at least between 1999 and 2004 [17]
  • DTIO has organised the Information Operations and Influence Activity Symposium in association with the Defence Academy and Cranfield University [18]

Location

The Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations
Old War Office Building
Whitehall
London
SW1A 2EU [19]

Notes

  1. ↑ Select Committee on Defence, Second Report: Annex, Intelligence, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2000-2001, accessed 09/02/10
  2. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  3. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  4. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  5. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  6. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  7. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  8. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  9. ↑ 8th Annual Information Operations Europe, Programme, International Quality and Productivity Centre, accessed 09/02/10
  10. ↑ Information Operations and Influence Activity Syposium, 2008, IOIA 2008, Programme, accessed 09/02/10
  11. ↑ Countering Terrorism in a Changed World, Security News (24/11/09), accessed 09/02/10
  12. ↑ A Guide to Appointments and Invitations (August 04), MOD Foreign Liaison Staff, accessed 09/02/10)
  13. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  14. ↑ Information Operations and Influence Activity Syposium, 2008, IOIA 2008, Programme, accessed 09/02/10
  15. ↑ Lieutenant Colonel J P Storr (2003), Human Aspects of Command, Directorate General of Development and Doctrine, accessed 09/02/10
  16. ↑ [www.qinetiq.com/home_hscon/.../Dstl%20IET%20Briefing%20paper.DOC DSTL IET Briefing Paper], Briefing Paper on RAO Human Capability Priority Research Area 2: Technology Insertion, QuinetiQ Website, accessed 09/02/10
  17. ↑ Select Committee On Defence, Third Report: Information Operations, Defence Committee Publications, Session 2003-2004, accessed 09/02/10)
  18. ↑ IOIA Syposium 2010 Information Operations and Influence Activity Symposium, Symposium 2010, accessed 09/02/10
  19. ↑ A Guide to Appointments and Invitations (July 2007), MOD Foreign Liaison Staff, accessed 09/02/10
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