Society’s mental state a key battleground for misinformation campaigns, experts say
“Fake news can be compared to junk food, as they are much easier (and cheaper) to take and go.”
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Ricky Lim ·
It is possible to win today’s wars without sending in the troops. What the adversary needs to do is to break down a society’s mental state and confidence.
This was essentially the message conveyed by experts from eastern Europe on Thursday (Mar 15), the second day of the public hearings on deliberate online falsehoods at Parliament House.
Dr Janis Berzins, director at Center for Security and Strategic Studies at the National Defense Academy of Latvia, said in his written representation that the human mind is the “main battle space” when an influence operation is carried out. Information and psychological warfare dominate in post-modern wars as these achieve superiority by “morally and psychologically depressing an enemy’s armed forces and population”, he explained.
It is easier for an adversary to achieve its objectives if the society under attack believes their country is a failed state that does not care for the interests and needs of the population, and that the loss of the existing statehood will bring better living conditions, the director wrote.
“Thus, public discontent with the social and economic development of the state can result in a significant security vulnerability, if war is to be conducted by non-military terms,” Dr Berzins said.
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Posted on:- Thu, Apr 17, 2014 9:25 PM SGT
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Military might should best use for deterence and prevent the outbreak of war - and achieve the military objectives where there is no need to fire a shot - like playing a chess - checkmate - and no room to move, but to accept a non-aggression cause and a deal that are acceptable to all.
That is a True Hero.
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And the Military Might that achieve Military Objectives - without firing - is the HIghest Military Strategist, the True Hero.
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With words and deeds - without firing a shot - just the Military Might - is the Highest Military Strategist.
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This was essentially the message conveyed by experts from eastern Europe on Thursday (Mar 15), the second day of the public hearings on deliberate online falsehoods at Parliament House.
Dr Janis Berzins, director at Center for Security and Strategic Studies at the National Defense Academy of Latvia, said in his written representation that the human mind is the “main battle space” when an influence operation is carried out. Information and psychological warfare dominate in post-modern wars as these achieve superiority by “morally and psychologically depressing an enemy’s armed forces and population”, he explained.
It is easier for an adversary to achieve its objectives if the society under attack believes their country is a failed state that does not care for the interests and needs of the population, and that the loss of the existing statehood will bring better living conditions, the director wrote.
“Thus, public discontent with the social and economic development of the state can result in a significant security vulnerability, if war is to be conducted by non-military terms,” Dr Berzins said.
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Posted on:- Thu, Apr 17, 2014 9:25 PM SGT
ricky l • a second agoRemove
Military might should best use for deterence and prevent the outbreak of war - and achieve the military objectives where there is no need to fire a shot - like playing a chess - checkmate - and no room to move, but to accept a non-aggression cause and a deal that are acceptable to all.
That is a True Hero.
ricky l • a second agoRemove
And the Military Might that achieve Military Objectives - without firing - is the HIghest Military Strategist, the True Hero.
ricky l • a second agoRemove
With words and deeds - without firing a shot - just the Military Might - is the Highest Military Strategist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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