We have no counterattack to Russia's information warfare
We have no counterattack to Russia’s information warfare
BY STEPHEN BLANK, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 11/27/17 07:20 AM EST
From Kyiv to Honolulu and from Ottawa to Buenos Aires the West is under attack.
This is a non-kinetic war except for Ukraine, which is a theater of combat operations. But we cannot doubt that Moscow, which has believed itself to be at war with the West for over a decade, is waging unceasing and far-ranging information warfare against the entire West.
This war never sleeps or stops.
And information warfare in all of its many chameleon-like manifestations may well have become Moscow’s most potent weapon in this war. Certainly it is the instrument of Russian power that we most see being deployed daily across all Europe, North America and now Latin America. Indeed, about 30 percent of the Twitter accounts that magnified the Catalan issue in Spain were registered in Venezuela but were Russian. Now there are new concerns that Moscow might use the tactics it has employed throughout Europe and the U.S. in next year’s elections in Mexico and Italy.
Thus information warfare is a global threat.
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/361897-we-have-no-counterattack-to-russias-information-warfare
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