Pentagon seeks to rapidly build up information-warfare force.
The US military lacks the ability to quickly deploy personnel that can fend off malevolent actors trying to shape public opinion and must act now to build up such “information forces,” according to a newly revealed Pentagon strategy.
Information warfare represents a persuasive brew of public outreach, offensive and defensive electronic capabilities, and cyber operations; it combines data awareness and manipulation to gain an advantage before, during and after major events.
I hate to break it to the US military, but the information space belongs not to Russia or to China, but to us, those of who grew up on the Internet, who observed through digital media the waste they laid to nations throughout the world, who have both the motive and the means, the technical abilities to manipulate the information space to our advantage.
They’ll have better luck going back to Iraq and Afghanistan to run yet another ill-founded hearts-and-minds operation.