Chuck de Caro

Who is Chuck de Caro?

Charles John “Chuck” de Caro is an American strategist and futurist who originated the concept of SOFTWAR which is defined as: “The hostile use of global visual media to shape another society’s will by changing its view of reality.”

He is the progenitor and advisor of the world’s first experimental military virtual unit, under a research contract with the Department of Defense. The 1st SOFTWAR Unit was organized at Joint Training Base Los Alamitos,California, in July 2013. The 1stSU, is composed entirely of California Army and Air Guard personnel whose civilian occupations and talents have no analog in any other branch of government. The experimental unit is designed to assist combatant commanders and government agencies with difficult problems in Information Warfare.

His original SOFTWAR thesis was published in 1991 by the Providence Journal Bulletin and led to lectures, books and articles on Information Warfare, which he continues to produce to the present day; as well as into research projects for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment.