Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Hmm, transparency and information are changing the face of the world, that's for sure, and generally in ways that will benefit the U.S.A. I'm not sure you can call that a military strategy, however.

Great bit here: "In 1996 I went to Iran for Guardian Weekend. A doctoral student at the University of Tehran who was working with the team that was bringing the internet to Iran, told me that the internet would be the undoing of the regime."

Clear-sighted, no? And vindicated.

We should do all we can to spread the tools of transparency and free information.

P.S.: I wasn't worried about your "fanatically patriotic and awesome content," but rather the fact that your article begins with the phrase "paradigm shift." Despite that inauspicious beginning, it's very good.
I use "military" and "defense" because our military would be carrying, utilizing and supporting the tools to facilitate this strategy. Additionally, they would need to defend it from the eventual disruption exhibited by effected regimes. Further, these actions would directly lead to a more liberalizing effect on the recieving nations, fostering more security for the US in the long term.

I use this along the same lines as I would transmission of propaganda, except that the propaganda is reality, but it would need to be pushed in the same way as lies and patriotic falshoods. The campain would be to further our interests, but at the expense of existing foreign regimes.