In the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and throughout the ongoing conflict, social media has served as a battleground for states and non-state actors to spread competing narratives about the war and portray the ongoing conflict in their own terms. As the war drags on, these digital ecosystems have become inundated with disinformation. Strategic propaganda campaigns, including those peddling disinformation, are by no means new during warfare, but the shift toward social media ...Read more >

We live in the data-rich Information Age. The ability to share information in near real-time, securely and anonymously, is a capability that is an asset as well as a potential vulnerability to our adversaries and us. The ubiquity of information and the pace of technological change are transforming the character of warfare. Old distinctions between peace and war, public and private, foreign and domestic and state and non-state are increasingly getting out of date. Information Warfare (IW) is ...Read more >

In the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and throughout the ongoing conflict, social media has served as a battleground for states and non-state actors to spread competing narratives about the war and portray the ongoing conflict in their own terms. As the war drags on, these digital ecosystems have become inundated with disinformation. Strategic propaganda campaigns, including those peddling disinformation, are by no means new during warfare, but the shift toward social media ...Read more >

We live in the data-rich Information Age. The ability to share information in near real-time, securely and anonymously, is a capability that is an asset as well as a potential vulnerability to our adversaries and us. The ubiquity of information and the pace of technological change are transforming the character of warfare. Old distinctions between peace and war, public and private, foreign and domestic and state and non-state are increasingly getting out of date. Information Warfare (IW) is ...Read more >

We live in the data-rich Information Age. The ability to share information in near real-time, securely and anonymously, is a capability that is an asset as well as a potential vulnerability to our adversaries and us. The ubiquity of information and the pace of technological change are transforming the character of warfare. Old distinctions between peace and war, public and private, foreign and domestic and state and non-state are increasingly getting out of ...Read more >

Yanks are very fond of new terminology. Remember how COIN (counter-insurgency) ops became LICO (low-intensity conflict operations), MOOTW (military operations other than war), SASO (stability and support operations), asymmetric, long, small, unconventional, and 4GW (fourth-generation warfare)? In between, Israelis coined ‘sub-conventional war’, which we happily copied. Two Chinese colonels used the term ‘unrestricted war’. Then the US Marine Corps Lt Col Frank G. Hoffman had the ...Read more >

Over the past decade, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has watched Russia’s employment of information warfare (IW) with great interest. iven the scope, sophistication, and scale of modern information warfare activities, thwarting Chinese information confrontation tactics during crisis and conflict will require a comprehensive approach, one that boldly marshals increased unity of effort from across the whole of government. Department of Defense (DOD), in partnership with the ...Read more >

His book The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder By Sean McFate, William Morrow, 2019, 336 pp, got a lot of attention. This book is prescribed and recommended for reading at our DSSC. ...Read more >

With cyber warfare a key focus, especially with China and Pakistan investing heavily in it, the Indian Army has decided to raise Command Cyber Operations and Support Wings (CCOSW) to help the forces counter enemy ...Read more >

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an extraordinary leader: the apostle of peace, an embodiment of compassion, a visionary, holistic in approach, and wisdom personified in logic. His perspectives and decisions are always based on reality and pragmatism. His concerns and compassionate leadership to mitigate suffering extend to all sentient beings beyond Tibet and the Tibetan ...Read more >

General Paul Nakasone, the head of the US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, told The Straits Times that “What we see with both China and Russia is a close association of being able to share information.” ...Read more >

With dreams of JADC2, Pentagon relaunches AI-driven command & control experiments The Pentagon kicked off a new Global Information Dominance Experiment in high-speed data sharing. The US military HQs aren’t nearly as high-tech as people think they are, and that’s a problem the Pentagon is eager to solve. Military and civilian leaders from across all service branches, all eleven combatant commands, technology vendors and international allies participated in the ...Read more >