BLOGGERS BEWARE---Pentagon's "Information Operations Roadmap"

[kpete]

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
By Adam Brookes
BBC Pentagon correspondent


A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.

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The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.

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'Fight the net'

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap.

The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence.

"Networks are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication is increasing... Number of events is increasing."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Christ, why don't they just put the Freepers

on the payroll. What's the difference?

[louis-t]

2. So attacks on "hostile networks" will become the norm?

Say good-bye to DU if they are allowed to continue. Filibuster Alito.

[dusmcj]

3. paranoia will destroya. nt

[Double T]

4. PROPAGANDA DOES NOT LIKE COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!

[MelissaB]

5. Why is this not on the "greatest"? PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE

:kick:

[kpete]

6. Thanks MelissaB

I thought it was my most IMPORTANT post of the day

[MelissaB]

7. I've been blocked at school all day, but when I saw this linked on

Raw Story and read it I knew how important it was.

:kick:

[MelissaB]

9. .

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[MelissaB]

8. snip

The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to - and the grand scale on which it's thinking.

It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support.

It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives. But no American diplomats here, thank you. The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials".

It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.

'Fight the net'

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

[Extend a Hand]

10. frightening but not suprising

The internet is already the only venue where one can find real news and dissenting opinions.

Here's a kick to go with a recommend.
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[converted_democrat]

11. Man o'man...They just never stop...K&R.....n/t

[rumpel]

12. the more important we support the freepress petition. k&r

As we already know large corporations are already the NSA subcontractors.


http://www.freepress.net/action/neutrality

Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now
The CEOs of the largest cable and telephone companies are hatching a scheme that would give them control over what content you can view and what services you can use on the Internet.

Their plan would do away with the principle of "network neutrality" and shut down the open roadway we've come to expect on the Internet.

If big media companies are allowed to limit the fastest services to those who can pay their toll, upstart Web services, consumers, bloggers and new media makers alike all could be cut off from digital revolution.

[dmr]

13. ... capability to knock out every telephone ...

Consider that for a moment.

The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or are they real?

The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.


I hate these bastards!

Where oh where did my dear America go? Oh, yeah, right, they hate us for our freedoms - and they are right here in our own Washington DC playing the 'national security' card. I am once again, so sick at heart.

:mad: I wish there was a tear drop emoticon

[RagAss]

14. wow....and they couldn't drop a few bottles of water in NO.....

The creeps....

[sandnsea]

17. Or

keep the phones and electricity on in Iraq. Idiots. :crazy:

[RazzleDazzle]

15. I'm getting a little sick of these paranoid sick fucks

[Dunvegan]

16. Kicked...

...and recommended.

[readmoreoften]

18. I have total outrage fatigue.

All this outrage is exhausting. Outrage is my life.

I picket and protest all day...
to go home where the government monitors my internet posts all night...
so the government can feel secure in their ability to rape and torture and kidnap...
so that I THAT CAN BE FREE.

So remind me again: what is it EXACTLY that I'm free to do? Buy more Gap Jeans? More Starbucks Coffee?

Calgon, take me away!!!

[KainNero]

19. So how long before...

They actually crack down on my old fashioned pen and paper diary?