| Abstrakt: |
In the Information Age, assisted with the omnipresence of the media, an adversary will welcome any information about the daily issues and activities within the friendly force. Composition and disposition of units, equipment and materiel condition and availability, interpersonal relationships in units, and the general state of morale of the units is often highly-priced and sought-after information by the adversaries in the era of great-power competition. Keeping the information release authority at the strategic level will ensure separation and distinction between the public affairs and the Military Information Support Operations (MISO), while at the same time keeping them organizationally and physically separate. This paper will focus on the reservations of the role of the public affairs as an "operational function", stating that too much effort in that field by the military professionals will lead them astray and will defocus them from the conduct of the military operations. The conclusion will demonstrate that the importance of the public affairs should not overshadow the sole purpose of the armed forces, which should be the completion of the policy's goals by military means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
