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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 >

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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between peace and war, public and private, foreign and domestic and state and non-state are increasingly getting out of date.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 >

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HANDERSON BRROKS REPORT  

On 26 August 1959, the Chinese overran our post at LONGJU in NEFA, claiming that it was in Chinese territory. In October of the same year, they ambushed our petrol at KONGKA LA just EAST of our post at HOT SPRING. ...Read more >

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MY YEARS WITH NEHRU KASHMIR  By B. N. MULLIK

1948, when I joined the IB (Intelligence Bureau) as the Deputy Director in charge of Internal Affairs, which included Kashmir. Till then my knowledge of what was going on in those momentous days of 1947-48 in Jammu and Kashmir had been based on open material published in the newspapers. ...Read more >

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ELEPHANT, DRAGON AND CRESCENT: BORDER DISPUTES AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIA, CHINA AND PAKISTAN (1947-71)  By Joyita Bhattacharya

This thesis explores the international relationships of India, China and Pakistan in the period between, 1947 and 1971. Characterized by paradoxical moves, these diplomatic relationships registered many changes over time. In the early 1950s, Communist China and democratic India briefly explored the possibility of a peaceful coexistence. ...Read more >

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VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL   By Major General PJS Sandhu (Retd)

The Rezangla Hill was defended by a reinforced company of 13 KUMAON commanded by Major Shaitan Singh, PVC (posthumous). The two strongholds were defended by a platoon each. The Company HQ and the third platoon were deployed on a height Point 5150 between the two strongholds. The total strength including the supporting elements of mortars, heavy machine guns and rocket launchers was 141 all ranks. ...Read more >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >

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