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This would not be at all unprecedented. Russia is known for trying to weaken other countries from the inside by inflaming preexisting tensions around divisive social issues. I wrote a bit about this here: journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/jicw…

"Command and control is being reimagined. You can't fight with 31 allies when everyone's got caveats and everyone's not clear on who is the general in charge." #CASISCON2023 #NATO #NATOSHAPE #warfare #Canada

"Physical and virtual effects will create cognitive effects on adversarial troops." #CASISCON2023 #NATO #NATOSHAPE #warfare #informationwarfare

"There is no mention to active measures in Russian literature and Russian military publications in terms of what Russia is doing now. However, this is very very similar to what we're facing today." #CASISCON2023 #KingsCollegeLon #informationwarfare #warfare

"What is the aim that Russia seeks here to pursue? The aim is to create controlled chaos to sow division in Western societies." #CASISCON2023 #KingsCollegeLon #informationwarfare #warfare

"The problem is we need to invest in creating counter narratives for target countries. We also need to invest into critical thinking capabilities and education." #KingsCollegeLon #warfare #informationwarfare #NATO #NATOSHAPE

"With information warfare, distance from threat doesn't keep you safe because there is no distance virtually." #CASISCON #PublicSafety #Warfare #InformationWarfare #NATO #NATOSHAPE #Russia

"We fall into the trap of excusing people who share misinformation. They're sharing stuff that they want to be true." #CASISCON2023 #warfare #NATO #InformationWarfare #NATOSHAPE #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation

"In the Canadian context, you have the concept of security intelligence which is far clearer than really anywhere else." #intelligence #counterintelligence #publicsafety #canada #warfare #CSIS

"There's a view by the American Joint Chiefs that you can't tell the difference between counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and counterintelligence." #CASISCON2023 #intelligence #terrorism #Bruneluni #publicsafety #nationalsecurity #insurgency #hybridwarfare

Dr. David Kilcullen @davidkilcullen begins his presentation on "Population-Centric Warfare." #CASISCON2023 #terrorists #insurgencies #nationalsecurity #publicsafety #intelligence #warfare

"We're increasingly seeing crowdsourcing and crowdfunding of weapon designs which which means that individuals anywhere in the globe can be contributing design ideas or funding." #CASISCON2023 #terrorists #insurgents #fifthgenerationwarfare #extremism #nationalsecurity

"World War 3 will be a guerilla information war with no distinction between combatants and civilians." #CASISCON2023 #warfare #insurgency #terrorism #informationwarfare #hybridwarfare #cyberwarfare

"If there is an emerging disruptive technology and you can respond immediately, the potential for it to be disruptive is less." #warfare #wargaming #CASISCON2023 #publicsafety #contemporaryconflict

”The role of the Intelligence Commissioner effectively combines judicial review and national security” #CASISCon2023 #intelligence #defence

“Coming from someone working in national security and intelligence - a group like CASIS is unprecedented” #CASISCon2023 #information #warfare

“Preserving the independence of review bodies is critical to building trust and credibility” #CASISCon2023 #information #innovation