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In reply to the discussion: I was manipulated by the Russians, and we must assume everyone was. [View all]Celerity
(43,349 posts)112. Resistance to Active Measures and Propaganda: "The Disruptors" - Motto: "Think For Yourself"
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-cyber-underground-%E2%80%93-resistance-to-active-measures-and-propaganda-%E2%80%9Cthe-disruptors%E2%80%9D-mot-0
Summary
The open societies of the US and free and democratic nations are being subverted by active measures and propaganda to undermine political processes and sow cultural and political divisions to allow closed societies of revisionist and revolutionary powers to dominate in international affairs. The way to counter this effort is through a grass roots resistance movement that consists of an educated, activist, energetic, and empowered youth who seek to be part of something larger than themselves and validate their self-worth as disruptors of the status quo. However, the closed societies are challenging their ability to disrupt because active measures and propaganda have taken away their initiative. A new grass roots movement, a cyber underground, organized around special operations principles can create a nationwide and global network that will seek out, identify, understand, and expose active measures and propaganda from closed societies in order to protect free and open societies. In short our nation wide youth of disruptors will channel their abilities to beat the revisionist and revolutionary disruptors. The exposure of adversary active measures and propaganda will inoculate the population against their effects and render their efforts ineffective and useless. This movement will help to restore and sustain what George Kennan termed the health and vigor of our own society that is the vital antidote to the subversive threats that we face.
Introduction
The values and political systems of open democratic societies are facing a world wide campaign of subversion by powers that seek to undermine democracies in order to strengthen their power in their region and throughout the world. This subversive campaign requires a global asymmetric response that cannot be organized by governments. It requires a grass roots resistance to conduct a counter cyber subversion campaign. An organizing principle may be found in both the modern concept of crowd sourcing and the application of special operations principles.
Subversion, active measures, and propaganda are key elements of modern unconventional warfare campaigns and revisionist and revolutionary powers are conducting unconventional warfare campaigns. Americans and the people of like-minded modern nation state powers need to resist the campaigns and strategies of those who are attacking freedom and democracy and the international nation state system that is required for freedom and democracy to flourish.
Congress recognized this threat in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act in Section 1097 which directed the Department of Defense in coordination with other government agencies to develop a counter unconventional warfare strategy. While Congress called for a whole of government approach that is the modern framework for national security in the 21st Century, what is really necessary is a whole of society approach and engagement through, with, and by the people. The US government, and certainly not DOD, cannot defend America from these threats. It requires the people.
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RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES: ANALOG LESSONS FROM THE COLD WAR
https://warontherocks.com/2017/09/russian-active-measures-in-germany-and-the-united-states-analog-lessons-from-the-cold-war/
Leaking damaging documents during election season, feeding the media false stories about candidates, and concocting conspiracy theories to smear politicians: this will sound familiar to anyone who followed the U.S. presidential election, and to an extent, recent campaigns in France and Germany. But these methods are not new. In fact, the Soviet Union used them all in West Germany throughout the Cold War.
The United States, as the Soviet Unions main enemy, and West Germany, seen as the KGBs door to the West, were the primary targets of Soviet active measures, or subversive operations. The two countries share a history that is all the more vital to understand amid claims that Russian active measures are back in business.
In Germany, warnings of the resurrection of active measures followed a series of high-profile incidents last year that evoked Cold War methods. Particularly notorious was the Lisa case, in which even Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joined Kremlin-backed media in stoking German public outrage over the alleged rape of a Russian-German by refugees after the story had been debunked. Compounding that, after the highly publicized 2015 hack of the German parliament, some feared that stepped-up attempts to hack politicians and journalists would lead to the leaking of documents during the elections. Berlin suspected the recent attempts, along with the 2015 hack, were committed by APT 28, the Russian military-linked group accused of the 2016 Democratic National Committee (DNC) hack.
On the day of the U.S. presidential election, German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that confronting internet attacks that are of Russian origin and the false information propagated by Russian media had already become a daily task. Though the election campaign was relatively quiet briefly interrupted by a Russian-language botnet bolstering misleading messages from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the entrance of the Russia-friendly, Euroskeptic AfD in parliament with a significant number of seats has opened the door for the kind of polarizing politics that such influence operations feed on.
As Germany hastens efforts to shield itself from outside interference and the United States presses on in its investigations into Russian meddling, its worth re-examining the two countries experience with active measures. West Germany, after all, endured the whole gamut of active measures, including at least three instances of Moscow interfering in its elections. For its part, the United States made a vocal effort to determine how to confront the problem that the Soviets posed to it and its European allies. As policymakers today confront a familiar toolkit, this history shines light on the kind of impact active measures can have, how attempted defenses have fared, and what lessons have endured despite active measures digital upgrade.
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Summary
The open societies of the US and free and democratic nations are being subverted by active measures and propaganda to undermine political processes and sow cultural and political divisions to allow closed societies of revisionist and revolutionary powers to dominate in international affairs. The way to counter this effort is through a grass roots resistance movement that consists of an educated, activist, energetic, and empowered youth who seek to be part of something larger than themselves and validate their self-worth as disruptors of the status quo. However, the closed societies are challenging their ability to disrupt because active measures and propaganda have taken away their initiative. A new grass roots movement, a cyber underground, organized around special operations principles can create a nationwide and global network that will seek out, identify, understand, and expose active measures and propaganda from closed societies in order to protect free and open societies. In short our nation wide youth of disruptors will channel their abilities to beat the revisionist and revolutionary disruptors. The exposure of adversary active measures and propaganda will inoculate the population against their effects and render their efforts ineffective and useless. This movement will help to restore and sustain what George Kennan termed the health and vigor of our own society that is the vital antidote to the subversive threats that we face.
Introduction
The values and political systems of open democratic societies are facing a world wide campaign of subversion by powers that seek to undermine democracies in order to strengthen their power in their region and throughout the world. This subversive campaign requires a global asymmetric response that cannot be organized by governments. It requires a grass roots resistance to conduct a counter cyber subversion campaign. An organizing principle may be found in both the modern concept of crowd sourcing and the application of special operations principles.
US Definition of Resistance: An organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. (US Joint Pub 3-05)
Adapted Definition of Resistance: An organized effort by some portion of the civil population to defend against the active measures and propaganda of an outside power that is seeking to disrupt civil society and create disorder and undermine the legitimacy of the constituted government and political system.
Subversion, active measures, and propaganda are key elements of modern unconventional warfare campaigns and revisionist and revolutionary powers are conducting unconventional warfare campaigns. Americans and the people of like-minded modern nation state powers need to resist the campaigns and strategies of those who are attacking freedom and democracy and the international nation state system that is required for freedom and democracy to flourish.
Congress recognized this threat in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act in Section 1097 which directed the Department of Defense in coordination with other government agencies to develop a counter unconventional warfare strategy. While Congress called for a whole of government approach that is the modern framework for national security in the 21st Century, what is really necessary is a whole of society approach and engagement through, with, and by the people. The US government, and certainly not DOD, cannot defend America from these threats. It requires the people.
snip
RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES: ANALOG LESSONS FROM THE COLD WAR
https://warontherocks.com/2017/09/russian-active-measures-in-germany-and-the-united-states-analog-lessons-from-the-cold-war/
Leaking damaging documents during election season, feeding the media false stories about candidates, and concocting conspiracy theories to smear politicians: this will sound familiar to anyone who followed the U.S. presidential election, and to an extent, recent campaigns in France and Germany. But these methods are not new. In fact, the Soviet Union used them all in West Germany throughout the Cold War.
The United States, as the Soviet Unions main enemy, and West Germany, seen as the KGBs door to the West, were the primary targets of Soviet active measures, or subversive operations. The two countries share a history that is all the more vital to understand amid claims that Russian active measures are back in business.
In Germany, warnings of the resurrection of active measures followed a series of high-profile incidents last year that evoked Cold War methods. Particularly notorious was the Lisa case, in which even Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joined Kremlin-backed media in stoking German public outrage over the alleged rape of a Russian-German by refugees after the story had been debunked. Compounding that, after the highly publicized 2015 hack of the German parliament, some feared that stepped-up attempts to hack politicians and journalists would lead to the leaking of documents during the elections. Berlin suspected the recent attempts, along with the 2015 hack, were committed by APT 28, the Russian military-linked group accused of the 2016 Democratic National Committee (DNC) hack.
On the day of the U.S. presidential election, German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that confronting internet attacks that are of Russian origin and the false information propagated by Russian media had already become a daily task. Though the election campaign was relatively quiet briefly interrupted by a Russian-language botnet bolstering misleading messages from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the entrance of the Russia-friendly, Euroskeptic AfD in parliament with a significant number of seats has opened the door for the kind of polarizing politics that such influence operations feed on.
As Germany hastens efforts to shield itself from outside interference and the United States presses on in its investigations into Russian meddling, its worth re-examining the two countries experience with active measures. West Germany, after all, endured the whole gamut of active measures, including at least three instances of Moscow interfering in its elections. For its part, the United States made a vocal effort to determine how to confront the problem that the Soviets posed to it and its European allies. As policymakers today confront a familiar toolkit, this history shines light on the kind of impact active measures can have, how attempted defenses have fared, and what lessons have endured despite active measures digital upgrade.
Fake News and Leaks 1.0
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I haven't seen any evidence that HRC's supporters were manipulated/targeted by the Russian
lapucelle
Apr 2019
#1
So did I. There's no evidence in the report that Clinton supporters were targeted by disinformation.
lapucelle
Apr 2019
#7
Bernie's supporters are responsible for their own decisions and emotions...
NurseJackie
Apr 2019
#29
Here's what I'm 100% sure of: People who behave in an immature way are the ones who are most likely...
NurseJackie
Apr 2019
#37
... they're also who are equally likely to want to blame others (like "Russian Interference"...
progressoid
Apr 2019
#110
"Senator Mark Warner summed it up well: 'The Russians employed thousands of paid internet trolls
betsuni
Apr 2019
#123
Well, there you go, NJ ... that's how RU would want you to feel and think ... Naoma's point I think.
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#36
Laugh all you want ... people who MOST think they're too smart to be manipulated by propaganda
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#53
I'm perfectly capable of rejecting someone's bad behavior without being told by Russia to do so.
NurseJackie
Apr 2019
#65
I completely understand your point, Jackie. But we're arguing 2 separate things ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#81
can assure you that my standards of what passes for acceptable behavior were in place and well...
NurseJackie
Apr 2019
#99
What were they, children, or intelligent and mature adults who wanted what was best for the country?
lunamagica
Apr 2019
#119
That didn't happen to me. I stay away from social media. And that didn't happen in the GE campaign.
lapucelle
Apr 2019
#16
Give me a frigging break! We supported Hillary we didn't push against Bernie supporters. At DU
wasupaloopa
Apr 2019
#94
And add the Seth Rich Conspiracy. We now know it was based on one of Assange's many lies.
JHan
Apr 2019
#117
Just because you were sucessfully manipulated doesn't mean all of us were
comradebillyboy
Apr 2019
#2
Ensuring that Clinton supporters were openly and continually hostile toward Sanders supporters
Bettie
Apr 2019
#22
"Just because you were sucessfully manipulated doesn't mean all of us were."
LenaBaby61
Apr 2019
#34
And just because we weren't successfully manipulated last time doesn't mean we can't be this time.
better
Apr 2019
#96
Good, common sense post. Especially about slowing down - don't feed the beast. Thank you.
yonder
Apr 2019
#5
Well I agree with you there. We don't know what would have happened without the Russians
marylandblue
Apr 2019
#89
that's why the russians got trump to study talk radio in 2014 and their trolling ops
certainot
Apr 2019
#84
Thanks for this. Good advice given, imo. And these things bring out the usual suspects. Always
theophilus
Apr 2019
#28
I know they did. But they didn't get to me. 94% of black female voters voted for HRC.
Kahuna7
Apr 2019
#71
I was not manipulated by Russians, and there are many more on DU who weren't, either.
ehrnst
Apr 2019
#44
Resistance to Active Measures and Propaganda: "The Disruptors" - Motto: "Think For Yourself"
Celerity
Apr 2019
#112
yes. the space between stimuli and response is where true freedom and wisdom lie
prodigitalson
Apr 2019
#50
Yes, part of my point was to heal from 2016 or get manipulated by those old wounds.
Neoma
Apr 2019
#78
I don't see how deleting Facebook or Twitter helps. Awareness is what's important.
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#80
I don't think there's any question that some reporters within the MSM were influenced . . .
peggysue2
Apr 2019
#105