Fourth Generation Warfare going on right under America’s nose.
As one cyber-terrorist said: “You do not need a gun to wage war in the 21st Century. All you need is a laptop and a good internet connection.”
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
If any of you have ever read the book Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer you would realize with a chill down your spine that more and more things listed in that fictional work regarding Military Technology is beginning to unfold right before our eyes.
The recent unveiling of China’s new Dark Sword Drone makes the 4GW tactic of “Drone Swarming” more realistic than ever.
The book’s primary goal is not just a fictional account of World War 3, but how a future conflict with China and Russia will most likely LOOK LIKE, and by that I mean in the parameters of 4th Generation Warfare Tactics.
Not only will Technology play a major role but also the MANNER in which a future war will be waged, (false flag events, proxy military actions, fake news, unconventional warfare tactics, etc.)
I urge all martial civilians to get familiar with these tactics and technology because who knows, one day we might, like the Wolverines in Red Dawn, find ourselves ‘smack dab in the middle of World War Three.’
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
A recent article about how Google and YouTube Search Algorithims are manipulated got me to thinking.
So I emailed a good friend of mine, Mr. A, with my concerns. Mr. A works on the security side of the IT industry.
Here is what he had to say:
Technology and information warfare have reached a new stage of sophistication. Not only is psychology optimally ‘weaponized’ in the way information is presented, but carefully crafted ‘profiles’ are used by companies like Google, YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook along with numerous ad tracking companies to show you advertisements that are the most likely to influence you. If you, for example, put a search term into Google on your computer and look at the results, you will see a certain list in a certain order. If you do the same thing in a public library or on a computer at work with the identical search terms, there will be a different set of results. This is profitable for marketing purposes, but it can be used to suppress information as well.
The problem is that you don’t know what you aren’t being shown, and Google is making the decision on what you are to see! You are not being given an equally distributed set of information, but rather a curated subset of information. Twitter does ‘shadow banning’ where tweets from influential conservatives simply do not appear in the timeline of those that follow them. Again, you don’t know what you aren’t being shown, and so it is difficult to know when you have been presented incomplete information.
Additionally, disinformation campaigns are constantly being launched by extremist groups, corporations, and foreign nations aiming to flood the internet with information that confuses and divides people. Because it takes 10x more effort to refute a lie than it does to spread a lie, disinformation floods social media with disconcerting effectiveness. It’s not just about political elections either. Russia was recently caught spreading disinformation about vaccines of all things.
Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous.
For those of you not familiar with the tactics of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW), specifically Cyber-Espionage, I urge you to read up. Our enemies are waging war against us everyday in cyber-space and for the most part, winning.
Stay Armed, Stay Informed and Stay Dangerous!
Bottom Line: Conflict follows humanity wherever it goes, and the world’s population is increasingly living in cities. Waning are the days of the Maoist blueprint of rural insurgents pillaging small peripheral villages and seeking refuge in the hard terrain of mountainous caverns, dense forests or expansive deserts. Soon terrorist and insurgent groups will mount operations from crowded slums and ritzy skyscrapers – not just in a dense urban landscape, but in coastal megacities that pose a unique challenge for which the U.S. military largely remains unprepared.
Background: The United Nations estimated in 2016 that some 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which will grow to 60 percent by 2030. There are 512 cities of at least one million inhabitants around the world, and this too is expected to grow to 662 cities by 2030. Over the same time period, the number of megacities – or overlapping urban landscapes home to at least 10 million residents – is expected to grow from 31 to 41. Many of these are emerging in the developing world, which will soon be economic, political, and cultural centers of gravity in the international political order.
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