{"id":38213,"date":"2022-04-11T04:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38213"},"modified":"2022-04-11T04:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T18:19:37","slug":"north-atlantic-treaty-organization-strategic-communications-centre-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38213","title":{"rendered":"North Atlantic Treaty Organization Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s newly announced commitment to the NATO SCCE in countering &#8220;hybrid threats&#8221; matters, and you aren&#8217;t likely to hear about it from anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>So let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO SCCE is like the CIA, only worse.<\/p>\n<p>The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO SCCE) is an officially accredited, yet unofficial branch of NATO operations formed in 2014, and they don&#8217;t answer to the rest of NATO, or really to anyone anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>They are a multinational intelligence agency without true borders.<\/p>\n<p>Their listed functionary abilities are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Public Diplomacy<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Military Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Information Operations<\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Psychological Operations, which is defined as: &#8220;planned psychological activities using methods of communications and other means directed to approved audiences in order to influence perceptions, attitudes and behaviour, affecting the achievement of political and military objectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In short the NATO SCCE are not your friends.<\/p>\n<p>They are part of an international uber-propaganda machine that you should be aware of and their entire purpose is to twist the public around the expansion of the military superstate.<\/p>\n<p>Their self-declared specialty is in &#8220;combatting hostile state, and non-state actors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Non-state actors&#8221;, is a term for any non-government person or group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s newly announced commitment to the NATO SCCE in countering &#8220;hybrid threats&#8221; matters, and you aren&#8217;t likely to hear about it from anyone else. So let me explain. The NATO SCCE is like the CIA, only worse. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO SCCE) is an officially accredited, yet unofficial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;North Atlantic Treaty Organization Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38215,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38213\/revisions\/38215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}