Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Russia Is Ready For Cyber Warfare

Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin. Kremlin photo

Robert Beckhusen, War Is Boring: The Kremlin’s ‘New Generation Warfare’ Is Just Getting Started

Wait for the sequel.

Whether or not you believe the CIA’s claim that Russia hacked into the Democratic Party’s servers to help Donald Trump get elected — and you should be skeptical of anonymous sources — it should be blindingly obvious that we’re in the middle of a new kind of conflict.

This kind of conflict doesn’t rely on bullets or conquest of territory, but control of information. So be skeptical, but also remember the Kremlin barely hides its embrace of propaganda-driven hybrid warfare, expounded at length in Russian military publications, and which has accelerated in intensity during the past several years.

And don’t just take the CIA’s word for it.

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WNU Editor: Moscow certainly knows that new-generation wars are to be dominated by information and psychological warfare .... and the tool to use is via through the world wide web.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Facebook has already proven - through their own studies - how social media can manipulate people. And Facebook has certainly been a battlefield, filled with all kinds of slanted, fake and twisted "news" stories, for the past year. What could Joseph Goebbels have done with today's social media? I suspect he could have had the whole world fighting itself while making Nazi Germany look like the "good guys". Why fight a government when you can get it's own citizens to fight it for you?

Unknown said...

Take down the grid and you won;t have to hqack or influence cyber anything

Young Communist said...

Goebbels has already win, because his propaganda methods are today propaganda and commercial methods.

Unknown said...

No Einstein, no theory of relativity

Ergo
No Goebbels, no 'his' propaganda methods (whatever they are & however they were different)

/sarc

Jac said...

Well, cyber warfare is a two way road. Don't imagine America is not doing it. Especially because America invented it and have a huge hedge on it...but is silent on it, as usual. The competition is hard, yes, but creativity is a major point for America.