America's war on the web

[TomInTib]

IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.
In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document’s recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of “a revolution in the concept of warfare”. The report orders three new developments in America’s approach to warfare:

lFirstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.

lSecondly, psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the heart of future military action. Psyops involve using any media – from newspapers, books and posters to the internet, music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants (PDAs) – to put out black propaganda to assist government and military strategy. Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and releasing information to wrong-foot the enemy.

more:

http://www.sundayherald.com/54975

[sweetheart]

1. the snake that ate his own tail

discovered that the internet war he was fighting
turned out to be against his own children,
and he killed them for threatening,
the future of aging men.
All the while the
propaganda got
smaller and
smaller
until
it
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[TomInTib]

2. Is that yours?

That is pretty darned good.

[sweetheart]

3. it was spurr of the instant

I was gonna write a sonnet, and then
ate my own tail.

I'm glad you like it.

[TomInTib]

4. And I'm glad you wrote it.

You can send me those anytime.

Thanks