Tag Archive for: Warfare

Internet of Military Things (IoMT) and the Future of Warfare

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In May 2, 2022 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Scott D. Berrier and Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines identified China, Russia, and Iran, as well as terrorist organizations, as the greatest threats to U.S. national security. Both China and Russia are nuclear powers and both have significant intelligence, cyber, and information warfare capabilities.

Russia

Russia’s threat to the United States includes: direct military conflict, cyber attacks, supporting separatists, threats to freedom of navigation, and territorial expansion. On November 15, a missile blast killed two people in Poland, near the Ukraine border. Russia was the primary suspect. President Joe Biden later told the Poles that the missile was part of a Ukrainian defense system. Whether the missile actually came from Russia directly or was the indirect result of Russian shelling, the incident underscores the danger Russia poses. A perceived attack on a NATO member could cause NATO to invoke Article 5, which states that an armed attack against one member is considered an attack against the entire alliance.

Moscow has repeatedly accused the U.S. and NATO of wanting to destroy Russia. Since the end of the Cold War, 13 countries have been admitted to NATO: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland (1999); Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia (2004); Albania and Croatia (2009); and, in 2017, Montenegro. Consequently, Russia has been focused on maintaining its influence and control in former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, Belarus, and the Central Asian states.

Defeating the U.S. or breaking from a U.S.-led world order was a primary goal of the USSR and has carried over to modern Russia. Opposing Europe and the U.K. are secondary objectives, seen as a proxy for defiance against the U.S. One of the concerns of the Department of Defense is that Putin often uses threats, including the threat of nuclear war, to get what he wants. If his threats continue to go unheeded, there is the danger that he will finally act, launching a strike, to show that he is serious.

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People’s Information Warfare vs the U.S DoD Cyber Warfare Doctrine – An Analysis

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Folks as it’s been a while since I’ve last posted a high-quality post please bare with me while I take the time to catch up with some of the latest developments worth posting an article about and while I try and do my best to return to the usual blogging rhythm typical for me and for the readers who truly know me and appreciate my work and research I sincerely hope that you’ll find this post informative enough and share it.

The best is yet to come.

What’s the main difference between a people’s information warfare concept including the U.S DoD cyber warfare doctrine in today’s modern world?

We cannot discuss these if we don’t compare their cyber warfare approaches next to one another. It’s rather ironic situation, since China has built its cyber warfare doctrine based on the research conducted into the topic by U.S military personnel. At a later stage, Chinese military thinkers perceived the combination of Sun Tzu’s military strategies in the virtual realm.

The left hand never knows what the right one is doing,

Capability matching vs threat acquisition?

China’s already reached the unrestricted warfare stage, a phrase when its hacking capabilities empowered Internet users self-mobilize themselves, the U.S DoD is implementing its cyber warfare doctrine, and the rest of the world is whining for yet another password stealer for online games that’s phoning back to China.

A little less conversation, a little more action “babe”.

Now that’s its becoming increasingly clear that cyber jihad is entering into a “stay tuned for a webcast with your favorite terrorist” stage, what we may witness next is terrorist on sand-proof Segways. Cutting the sarcasm, it’s becoming boring the listen to the same song played on a different media device.

Stay tuned!

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Dancho Danchev’s Blog – Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge authored by Dancho Danchev. Read the original post at: https://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2022/10/peoples-information-warfare-vs-us-dod.html

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President calls for national strategy to meet conventional, cyber warfare challenges

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President calls for national strategy to meet conventional, cyber warfare challenges

President Dr Arif Alvi has called for outlining a national strategy securing the domains of both traditional and non-traditional security including cyber warfare. 

Addressing the inaugural session of a two-day conference on ‘Challenges and Opportunities Evolving Global Order’ in Islamabad on Wednesday, the President said the renewed world order demands sustainable conditions ensuring internal and external opportunities for all citizens for a prosperous future.

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Land Warfare and its Future ‘Avatar’

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‘The Avatar is the one that holds the balance of them together until he disappears. When that happens, peace is lost and war becomes the common theme among the nations.’

– Avatar: The Last Airbender

WAR?? They questioned.

WAR!! They exclaimed in horror.

The term war generates ghastly images of death, destruction, devastation and despair.

Fighter jets strafing targets on the ground, bombers dropping their deathly loads from thousands of meters above on unsuspecting populations below; big guns of naval ships booming and launching projectiles at other ships or targets on land, submarines prowling the deep waters to target the enemy aircraft carrier; tanks growling at neck breaking speeds maneuvering a pincer to trap the enemy; artillery raining destruction on the enemy unrelentingly; and finally that Infantry soldier waiting to evict the enemy entrenched in his fortified emplacements to seize victory which he has measured by his feet.

Will a future war be different? Will it not entail death and destruction? Will the ‘nature of war’ change with the induction of technology and Artificial Intelligence? Will it replace the soldier partially or wholly? Will diplomacy and soft power be the order of the day?

Think tank’s and academics are quick to extrapolate from contemporary situations and arrive at conclusions which are fit only for academic discussion and debate. On ground the realities cannot change radically due to constraints and bindings of all sorts. A new weapon or equipment has a long gestation period from the drawing board to the assembly line. Upgrading or modernising a large military force cannot be undertaken in a short time-frame.

Take the case of a military aircraft be it a fighter, ground attack aircraft, multi-role combat aircraft, bomber, transport aircraft or even a helicopter. They continue to be in service long after their pilots who flew them have retired and gone into the world beyond. It is the same for tanks, artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles, shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles and small arms of the Infantry. Each weapon and weapon system from visualisation to conception…

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