On 27/6/24 23:14, Stephen Loosley wrote:
China is seeking ways to disrupt daily American life should a conflict erupt, Pentagon’s IT leader says BY PATRICK TUCKER,SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR, DEFENSE ONE JUNE 26, 2024 08:58 PM ET https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2024/06/china-seeking-ways-disrupt-daily-american-life-should-conflict-erupt-pentagons-it-leader-says/397691
That is how warfare is conducted. Back in the analog age in WWII Germany planned to destabilize UK's financial system by printing counterfeit Pound notes and dropping them from the air: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard
Radio Free Europe was set up to broadcast pro-western propaganda in 1949, and the USSR attempted to jam transmissions. RFI is still operating, but the jamming stopped in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty
We now have digital versions of these forms of economic and information warfare. Australia could do with a considerable boost in its Cyber Warfare Division in this area. https://www.defence.gov.au/about/who-we-are/organisation-structure/joint-capabilities-group
Ukraine provides a model for how a to conduct information warfare which Australia could emulate. https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2022/03/ukraine-destroyed-myth-of-russian.html
-- Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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