The Information Warfare Myth
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By Bill Bray
January 04, 2022
Russia’s troop buildup on the Ukrainian border may culminate in a full-scale invasion. Or it may be meant to coerce NATO to negotiate and concede to some of Vladimir Putin’s demands regarding Ukraine’s future. But one thing it surely demonstrates is that the efficacy of information warfare to achieve political and security objectives is greatly overstated. The U.S. military and national security community should take note.
One could be forgiven for concluding Vladimir Putin’s Russia is the world’s grand practitioner of information warfare. It’s a conclusion Putin ostensibly promotes, if, for no other reason, because it conjures an image of power that may be more illusion than reality.
The potential destructive effects of cyberattacks are serious, and it is no overreaction on the part of Western intelligence and military services to take that threat seriously. But even cyberattacks, at least as thus far practiced, seem far more bark than bite when evaluating what they achieve beyond imposing some costs on the target nation.
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