Operational Preparation of the Environment

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 30 Woke Marxism isn't just a bunch of crazy academic Theory. It's also very practical. It's meant to be put into practice to "transform the world" by taking over institutions through activism. In order to do that, it wages unconventional warfare, particularly narrative warfare. A key technique employed by these activists, especially in media, is what is known as "operational preparation of the environment" (OPE). In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks this idea down and explains how Woke Marxists lay narrative lines in advance of certain events so they can capitalize upon them when the moment arrives. Understanding how they prepare their mass lines of action is critical to defusing them. Join him to learn how to spot and counter operational preparation of the narrative space! Order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #newdiscourses #jameslindsay

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to new discourses, bullets, where I
0:15.1	give a bullet point type summary of a single topic from the woke Marxism movement that
0:21.3	you need to understand in order to be able to comprehend what's happening around you and
0:25.3	maybe fight back. I've been doing a little bit in the direction of operational issues lately,
0:31.8	trying to talk about not in such abstract terms, how the woke Marxist movement works, how
0:40.3	it does what it does. And so in this episode, I don't want to cover a concept called operational
0:46.5	preparation of the environment. This is a military term as a matter of fact. It is the evolution
0:54.1	of what is called operational preparation of the battlefield, which or battle space, which
0:59.4	more or less explains itself. If you want to be able to do an operation, you want to prepare
1:05.0	the battle space or the battlefield to be able to do your operation. Well, and this is quite simple.
1:10.4	You want to make sure your munitions are there. You want to make sure your troops are positioned.
1:14.1	You want to make sure that if it were like a World War I that you got your trenches dug,
1:21.5	that you've got your things, you've got to prepare the space in order to do your battlefield
1:27.0	operations to make sure that your maneuvers are going to work, that your positioning is good,
1:31.5	that you can set and spring traps and so on. The update to that in an information war,
1:37.6	which is sometimes called a fifth generation war or in general, which we might call an
1:42.2	unconventional war that we deal with now, is operational preparation of the environment. We've
1:47.9	generalized from battlefield or battle space to environment and the primary way that happens
1:52.6	in an information war like we find ourselves in it present is through operational preparation of
1:57.8	the narrative environment. And so it's control of the narratives. If we go and we look at say
2:04.0	US military documents, Army command document, for example, talking about what operational
2:09.7	preparation of the environment is, they give a very vague definition. A very general definition
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