#230 Randy Rosin on Warfare is Informational; the Case for a New DoD Information Paradigm

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During this episode, Randy Rosin returns to the Cognitive Crucible to support his assertion that warfare is informational and the US Department of Defense needs an entirely new information paradigm.

Recording Date: 28 Aug 2025

Resources:

• Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned
  • #7 Randy Rosin on Russia and Applied Cybernetics
  • #187 Randy Rosin on Reflexive Control
  • #125 Journey from conception through JP 3-04
• Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
• Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd
• The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory--The New Physics of Information by Tom Siegfried
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

Link to full show notes and resources

Guest Bio: Dr. Randy Rosin was formerly a faculty member of the National Intelligence University in Bethesda, Maryland. He taught courses in propaganda, foreign information and cyber strategy, cyber threat intelligence, denial and deception, and leadership. He is a 32-year active-duty Army veteran who has served in combat arms, psychological operations, information operations, as a middle eastern foreign area officer, and in human intelligence operations. Notably serving as the information operations chief in Iraq, at US Central Command, and as the Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché in Yemen.  His research interests are in the intersection of technology and manipulative communication and on the development of information-based theoretical frameworks in military applications. Currently he teaches critical thinking courses in the Honors College at Montana State University.

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