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Russian military admits significant cyber-war effort

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Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian "information troops" were involved in "intelligent, effective propaganda", but he did not reveal details about the team or its targets.
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Keir Giles, an expert on the Russian military at the Chatham House think-tank, has warned that Russian "information warfare" occupies a wider sphere than the current Western focus on "cyber warriors" and hackers.
"The aim is to control information in whatever form it takes," he wrote in a Nato report called "The Next Phase of Russian Information Warfare". Link.

The report states the sphere of influence goes beyond targeting NATO and individual NATO soldiers and I suspect a far wider range of targets including this ominous line: "Instead, it has as one aim undermining the notion of objective truth and reporting being possible at all."

I believe that war on truth is being waged and won in the US with the rise of the new "alt-fact" movement, but here on European soil - how successful do we think this Russian action will be?
 
The report states the sphere of influence goes beyond targeting NATO and individual NATO soldiers and I suspect a far wider range of targets including this ominous line: "Instead, it has as one aim undermining the notion of objective truth and reporting being possible at all."

I believe that war on truth is being waged and won in the US with the rise of the new "alt-fact" movement, but here on European soil - how successful do we think this Russian action will be?

Alt fact and post truth is greatest threat to political stability, at this time. Social media is awash with stories that users promulgate without giving the story more than a seconds thought.
 
The report states the sphere of influence goes beyond targeting NATO and individual NATO soldiers and I suspect a far wider range of targets including this ominous line: "Instead, it has as one aim undermining the notion of objective truth and reporting being possible at all."

I believe that war on truth is being waged and won in the US with the rise of the new "alt-fact" movement, but here on European soil - how successful do we think this Russian action will be?

This is one of the columns of the Gerasimov Doctrine of nonlinear war that Putin has engaged on. It is a very interesting concept and seems to be successful at this time. As a matter of fact, I sometimes wonder at how destabilising it has been to mess about with information and its flows. How this can be corrected for without harming the freedom of information societies we have been so successful with is not clear.

But in Europe we do see the fallout of the misinformation and have for some time. One difference that seems to influence the impact is the predominant role in many European countries that government play in media that disseminate political information and opinion into the populations. Here the interesting thing is that a kerfuffle created by fake news can be used in Europe to direct the sentiment of the population in political directions the elite requires.
 
Alt fact and post truth is greatest threat to political stability, at this time. Social media is awash with stories that users promulgate without giving the story more than a seconds thought.

One main point of danger it seems to me, is the way the perception of reliability on journalistic credibility has taken a hit. I mentioned earlier how it has become more necessary to double check news for spin.

We should realize that a good part of our problems are based in our sloppy understanding and application of basic values and the use to which we have become accustomed to use the to argue political opinions. An other area that is causing us to stumble in the war Putin has declared and wages is the selective argumentation we ie our governments have used to sell the policies to populations to get the votes. After years of this official story telling we are in a double whammy situation. The populations believe the myths after decades of repetition ex cathedra, so to speak, and cling to the ideas quasi religiously. On the other hand, many of the policies are running into increasing problems in their reality checks. Here the imbalances and counter forces have grown and in many cases to the point, where sustaining them into the future is already or becoming visibly impossible even for rich nations. This is forcing the arguments used to justify the policies, programs and bureaucracies in pursuit of the myths into the public view and being found to be at best flimsy and often outright lies.

The media had accompanied the politicians that were selling these false promises and have thus lost credibility. In this situation putins seeds fall on futile ground.
 
The report states the sphere of influence goes beyond targeting NATO and individual NATO soldiers and I suspect a far wider range of targets including this ominous line: "Instead, it has as one aim undermining the notion of objective truth and reporting being possible at all."

I believe that war on truth is being waged and won in the US with the rise of the new "alt-fact" movement, but here on European soil - how successful do we think this Russian action will be?

EVERYONE should already know that EVERY major government is actively involved in "cyber-warfare" with every other government...often with friends as well as political foes.

This is just another aspect of intelligence and counter-intelligence activity that has been going on since the dawn of government.

Why is this news? :confused:
 
I'm old skool; I don't need to be connected to everybody on planet Earth via Twitter, FakeBook, SnapS***, etc., 24/seven like what seems to be the bigger majority of 'cell phone zombies' that I witness on a daily basis praying to their smart? phones

Americans have been duped into believing that staying 'connected' is some how going to make their lives 'better', have more quality, or offer them some type of advantage

I honestly don't need my head stuck up someone's *** 24/seven & I really don't need anyone else to be that interested in my business either

Americans in general seem to be getting to point where they no longer THINK; they just seem to react; America has become a nation of brain dead reactionaries ..........

It won't be too difficult to subvert such a population ........
 
EVERYONE should already know that EVERY major government is actively involved in "cyber-warfare" with every other government...often with friends as well as political foes.

This is just another aspect of intelligence and counter-intelligence activity that has been going on since the dawn of government.

Why is this news? :confused:

The scale of the effort.
 
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