Commentary: As information warfare enters a new age, time for a Total Defence upgrade
With the establishment of a Parliamentary Select Committee to address the dangers and response to “deliberate online falsehoods”, Channel NewsAsia Digital News' Chief Editor Jaime Ho suggests a careful assessment of the real threats, and a re-look at what Total Defence means.
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Speaking to explain its launch that year, then Minister for Defence Goh Chok Tong outlined the evolving needs of a young nation and the concomitant defence imperatives that the country faced: From military and civil defence, to economic defence, social defence to defend the country’s multiracial space, and finally to an undergirding psychological defence, to ensure that Singaporeans are “willing to stand up for themselves”. I would argue that focus on a new area of defence is needed, to ensure that Singaporeans are not just able to stand up for themselves, but also think for themselves, in what could be called a cognitive defence.
Such a defence at its core is deeply personal, and involves two key dimensions: First, growing and maintaining a deep-seated awareness of current affairs and the world around us, and especially what’s driving international conflicts.
Second, being educated about these issues, in ensuring that we understand the nuances and trade-offs, their domestic relevance, and understanding that one should only come to a judgement with all the necessary and credible information available.
---- Ricky Lim · Singapore Posted on :- March 3, 2017
ricky l 5 seconds ago There are 2 aspects of cyber warriors that perform the role of cyber defense :- (1) Protection of our IT infrastructure (2) Psychological and ideological warfare - propagated through the cyber space. ricky l Reply 00 ricky l 15 seconds ago The latest US election - demonstrate that social media are used in cyber space to influence the election result by foreign intelligence.
This is one aspect of cyber attack - that fringe on psychological and ideological warfare - that cross border and impact domestic views and change election result.
ricky l00 ricky l 8 seconds ago Sophisticated software are used to do profiling, web crawl to do meta data search, data analytic are performed and ideologies, fake news, propaganda, scandalised news etc are spread to targeted audience - via the cyber space - to influence the election result.
This is a new dimension of cyber attack that brought down the US and change the election result ---- just like how USSR was disintegrated (not through cyber spaces - but through traditional propaganda).
ricky l00 ricky l 16 seconds ago What US did to USSR in 1991 that disintegrate USSR and led to the fall of Communism - through traditional propaganda.
Is what Russia did to US in 2016 in US election - that give rise to Trump syndrome and impact on Capitalism - through social media cyber space.
"What come around, goes around".
Thus cyber defense - also need to encompass psychological and ideological warfare defense. See less
ricky l00 ricky l 15 seconds ago Also want to mention that "Universal Law of Karma" is real ------ on "What come around, goes around".
"Do good. Refrain from evil, refrain from wrong." - is the best safeguard against "What come around, goes around". See less Like · Reply · Just now
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