Jet Gerans and the Geography of Fear
Jet-powered Geran-4/5 drones are a real threat. The viral ‘target maps’ are influence products. CommandEleven separates signal from signaling.
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Jet-powered Geran-4/5 drones are a real threat. The viral ‘target maps’ are influence products. CommandEleven separates signal from signaling.
Part IV: a carrier fire inflated by AI video, a real press conference called fake: the fact-checked record of Iran’s AI-native wartime propaganda in 2026.
A technical intelligence dossier evaluating electromagnetic spectrum sabotage, automated database subversion, and institutional administrative inundation.
How Chinese strategic support units use cognitive overlays in the gray zone: narrative conditioning, port registry subversion and information saturation.
How Russian reflexive control pairs spectrum spoofing, customs database subversion and synced disinformation to induce sensory rupture in enemy command.
Part 4: why Tehran’s fast, decentralized influence operations outpace slower US messaging in the information war, and how deepfakes may raise the stakes.
How hostile states fuse biometric data harvesting, algorithmic amplification, deepfakes and co-opted domestic influencers to manipulate target populations.
How China pairs app data harvesting, subsea cable and BGP routing control, AI personas and the Three Warfares doctrine into one influence architecture.
How Russia scales influence operations with SIM-farm bot networks, AI-written propaganda, deepfakes, laundered leaks and reflexive control polarization.
The ascension of Noor Wali Mehsud in 2018 signaled a sophisticated structural and psychological rebrand of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
A doctrinal audit of the Madrassa Frontier as a cognitive battlespace. Deconstructing the Mosaic Defense, the 72/48 Resilience Protocol, and Hardware Truth.
A clinical audit of the Madrassa Pipeline as a Cognitive Frontier. Deconstructing asymmetric recruitment, the Sanitization Gap, and the requirement for Hardware Truth.
A clinical audit of the “Single-Trigger Threat” mechanism and the Indian ISKP-Pakistan narrative. Deconstructing Information Laundering, the Sanitization Gap, and Mosaic Defense.
Analysis of the Conflict Premium on the Indus Highway. How the ISKP narrative is weaponized to sever Logistical Oxygen and induce administrative friction.
Analysis of the “Digital Mirage” signatures linking ISKP to Pakistan. A clinical deconstruction of narrative pre-positioning, the Sanitization Gap, and the requirement for Hardware Truth.
Clinical white paper on neutralizing DaaS and cognitive incursions using the #72/48 Resilience Protocol, Hardware Truth, and Mosaic Defense architectures.
Clinical audit of the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands. Analysis of Digital Mirages, Conflict Clusters, and the #72/48 Resilience Protocol in the “Void.”
Operational security briefing on Cognitive Defense Training (CDT). Hardening the C-Suite against deepfakes, narrative warfare, and engineered distrust.
CommandEleven’s 2026 assessment of hybrid warfare along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border — covering the Cyber-Kinetic Model, cognitive warfare, and Taliban narrative strategy versus Islamabad.
Distinguishing between Cognitive Warfare and 5th Generation Warfare in modern theater operations and regional narrative perception management.
Analysis of the institutional and psychological mechanics behind radicalization, from initial recruitment to operational deployment.
Part 2 of CommandEleven’s IRGC series examines why sanctions haven’t altered Quds Force behavior — and its pivot toward Venezuela, cyber ops, and covert reach.
Dissecting the competing narratives between Islamabad and Kabul. Who holds the tactical advantage on the ground versus the propaganda front?
Assessing the 2025 Indian psychological offensive against Pakistan. Analyzing narrative warfare and cognitive subversion tactics in the regional crisis.
Effective government control over traditional media is not the sole reason for the youth’s preference for social media. Commercialization, cost, dull and monotonous content, editorial gatekeeping, lack of diversity, limited access and coverage, one-way communication, sensationalism, and time delays are among the many other factors contributing to this shift.
PMOLeaks was not Pakistan’s first breach: a record of known hacks and leaks since 2008, the tradecraft behind them and the state’s failure to respond.
In quite a humorous attempt at analysis, Aritra Banerjee attempted to paint CommandEleven as “one of the ISI’s premier black propaganda outfit,” due to our organization being targeted by the Indian government after it’s failure in the Balakot operation.
Media in Pakistan has enjoyed unprecedented freedom since 2000 but without much accountability. The laws under PEMRA are not implemented properly and PEMRA has become a joke. The unchecked flow of money to media houses and media celebrities has resulted in, allegedly, corrupt, for sale and incompetent media houses.
Assessing the role of mainstream media in shaping national narratives and the lack of accountability in regional information operations.
It will be on rare occasions that you’ll find me addressing the CommandEleven audience about something related to CommandEleven. We didn’t build this platform, bring the best analysts together and begin counter the negative image being wrongly portrayed about Pakistan to sit back and accept someone’s blind judgement of our work and organization.
Some people are of the opinion that India and Pakistan could have better relations, and that it is Pakistan who causes acrimony, with the Establishment specifically to blame. They qualify their argument by accusing the Establishment of creating an artificial situation so as to justify a huge defense budget, pay and allowances and perks.
The DAWNLeaks report is finally here and a notification has been issued from the PM House. Four people and an institution have been blamed for DAWNLeaks that include Rao Tehsin Ali, Principal Information Officer in the Ministry of Information, and Tariq Fatemi, the Special Assistant to the PM.
When DawnLeaks happened, the State handled the crisis as best as it could. No one says that it is to everyone’s satisfaction, nevertheless it was resolved with the best of intent. Our DG-ISPR was the messenger and unkind remarks about him are either out of ignorance or malice.
The New York Times has long considered itself an expert on Afghanistan and Pakistan, based on the sheer number of articles and books that have been published by staffers.
The job of the media in every civilized nation to inform and educate the public, to take the difficult problems, policies and government positions and make them easier to understand for their readers and viewers.