 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW, TECHNOLOGY & SPACE (C2ETS) DIGEST SEP 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 26 Pages 623.33 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW, TECHNOLOGY & SPACE (C2ETS) DIGEST JULY 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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state and non-state are increasingly getting out
of date.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 > | 22 Pages 650.98 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW, TECHNOLOGY & SPACE (C2ETS) DIGEST SEP 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 26 Pages 623.33 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW, TECHNOLOGY & SPACE (C2ETS) DIGEST JULY 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 22 Pages 650.98 KB |
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 | INFORMATION WARFARE: TIME FOR A RELOOK By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 20 Pages 655.45 KB |
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 | INDIA S ARMED FORCES MUST STOP DEPENDING ON US JARGON By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 4 Pages 1.73 MB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW, TECHNOLOGY & SPACE (C2ETS) DIGEST By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 23 Pages 1.15 MB |
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 | SNEAKY WARS By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 8 Pages 373.19 KB |
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 | SECURING TIBET’S FUTURE
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 > | 44 Pages 1.20 MB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW & TECHNOLOGY (C2ET) DIGEST - MARCH 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
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 > | 25 Pages 1,009.81 KB |
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