I see a doctrine but dismissing cuddly bears and gummy bears that turn up in honey pots, what exactly does this entail? Would it involve stealing thousands of government workers information like China? A simple phishing routine that nets dumbass democrats on gay Macs? What is the here here?ssu wrote:Much more it was a show of the technology and the handycraft.TheReal_ND wrote:Well especially in light of the recent Wikileaks that demonstrate how the CIA can false flag "cyber attacks."
Basically the US launches a broad multi-front information & cyberattack only when it goes to war. Hence only then, for example a journalist that makes somewhat critical article is targeted. But otherwise, the US doesn't care. Hence the whole spectrum of information warfare is just viewed as assistance to the conventional warfare.
Russia doesn't think this way. This is one of the important differences between US and Russia in this field. Where the US resorts to such actions only against a dedicated foe, Russia does this all the time and hence it isn't so noticeable. And thus is the different between peacetime and wartime blurred. Here the Russians are far more smarter than the US. This is evident from the Gerasimov doctrine, defined By a Westerner:
What people fail to understand that the information warfare doesn't mean that it's just a precursor to something bigger, that it's made before Putin starts to warm up the tank engines. It basically means that if used correctly, you can achieve your objectives with it without resorting to the conventional military, either through a show of force or conflict.General Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Federation’s military, developed The Gerasimov Doctrine in recent years. The doctrine posits that the rules of war have changed, that there is a “blurring of the lines between war and peace,” and that “nonmilitary means of achieving military and strategic goals has grown and, in many cases, exceeded the power of weapons in their effectiveness.” Gerasimov argues for asymmetrical actions that combine the use of special forces and information warfare that create “a permanently operating front through the entire territory of the enemy state.”
Oh and I should add that twitter bots or RT propaganda do not count in my book.
