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Building a cyber ROTC
Excerpts: In a similar vein, the US military should create new cyber reserve units concentrated where talent already exists — regardless of whether there is military infrastructure in place. Taking a...
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Digital Generals Are As Important As Military Generals (Because The US Is...
Excerpt: The US Department of Education reported the following (which is now “archived” information with lots of dead links to previous programs and funding proposals): “The United States has developed...
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Ethiopian Musicians Charged With Terrorism for ‘Inciting’ Song Lyrics
Posted 14 July 2017 19:47 GMT Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were charged in Ethiopia in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and...
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U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Highlights #DigitalSherlocks
U.S. Senators measure Russian influence operations in Europe On July 13, Damon Wilson, executive vice president at the Atlantic Council, provided testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update – 17 July 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Sir Michael Fallon @ CSIS on Russia and UK policy. Kramnik elaborates on the collapse of the Russian submarine fleet refit...
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Military Steps Up Recruiting of Cyberwarriors
By Sandra Erwin, www.realcleardefense.com July 17th, 2017 Lt. Gen. Paul M. Nakasone says he is baffled by complaints that tech-minded young people are not interested in government service. He believes...
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It’s Time to Stop Comparing Exploits to Physical Weapons
JOSEPH COX Jul 17 2017, 10:29am Analogies may seem helpful, but often they are inaccurate, and only lead to a misinformed debate. Digital security is full of bad analogies; it’s a complex, quickly...
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CCDCOE – Geneva Conventions Apply to Cyberspace: No Need for a ‘Digital...
Geneva Conventions Apply to Cyberspace: No Need for a ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ Calls for a new international treaty to regulate cyber operations between states are confusing the debate over norms...
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Marking the Third Anniversary of the Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
Press Statement Heather Nauert Department Spokesperson Washington, DC July 17, 2017 Three years ago today 298 innocent civilians were killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. The United...
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Aiming To Distract From Russian Embarrassment, Zakharchenko Announces...
Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Leader Alexander Zakharchenko, timing his announcement so as to divert attention from the three year anniversary of the MH17 shootdown by Russian and...
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France moves above US and Britain to become the world’s top ‘soft power’ with...
France has been named the world’s top ‘soft power’ after overtaking US and UK New status ‘was helped by the election of centrist President Emmanuel Macron’ Soft power rankings show which nation has...
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The Soft Power 30 – A Global Ranking of Soft Power 2017
The Soft Power 30 – A Global Ranking of Soft Power 2017 The nature of power has never been more complex. It had long been held that traditional hard power involving armies and economic might ruled the...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update – 18 July 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Please pay attention to the Russian dig on the name Malorossiya, explained below. </end editorial> Interesting developments overnight. The...
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How State Media Became A Weapon Of Information Warfare
Russia, China and others are using their state-run media abroad in hopes of expanding their influence beyond their borders. By Jake Godin July 18, 2017 Media is everywhere — newspapers, television,...
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“Seen on the Web” 18 July 2017 — Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union See: http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/07/how-badly-faked-photo-vladimir-putin-took-over-twitter...
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That Devious Plot to ‘Zombify’ Russia: The Fidget Spinner
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR JULY 18, 2017 MOSCOW — The West in general and the United States in particular are hatching all manner of diabolical anti-Russian plots, if reports in the state-controlled news...
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Little Russia Squashed By Big Russia
That was quick. This statement by Putin’s spokesman quashes Zakharchenko: “The statement made by [Alexander] Zakharchenko this morning on the topic of Malorossiya seems to be his own personal...
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Respond to Russia’s Information Warfare
General McClintock makes one minor error, which may throw readers initially off balance. He uses the terms ‘information warfare’ and ‘hacking’ interchangeably at the beginning of the article....
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Russia Increasingly Promoting Stalin
A Russian Foreign Ministry official posted this on his Facebook page today. Nearly two-thirds of Russians support the installation of Stalin memorial signs Acceptance of this mass murderer in Russia...
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Making Sense of Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Brief Assessment of the...
Making Sense of Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Brief Assessment of the Russo–Ukrainian War Preface Russian warfare in the 21st century has ushered in a new paradigm—one in which states are in perpetual...
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