INFORMATION WARFARE NEEDS ‘WHOLE-OF-SOCIETY’ APPROACH
Wed, 07/03/2024 - 10:30
The United States is struggling to outpace its global adversaries in the information domain, and a whole-of-society response is needed, the special envoy and coordinator of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center said July 2 at a Hot Topic event hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.
“In the information domain, our adversaries are devoting more attention [to gaining the information advantage], and we are not winning,” James Rubin said during a keynote address. “The information threat is not something that can be solved by even a whole-of-government response, it needs a whole-of-society response.”
Information warfare is not a new threat, Rubin said. America’s adversaries have been weaponizing information “for a long, long time,” he said.
“Russia has been doing disinformation … for hundreds of years,” he said. “The Chinese Communist Party is based on propaganda, … and they fund their operations with a level of seriousness far beyond the way we fund our information operations.”
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