ARMY/CYBERWAR/MILITARY/RUSSIA: “The Army is preparing to unveil a new approach for fighting future wars that combines space, cyberspace and traditional combat, in preparation for conflicts short of all-out war that require attacks or counterstrikes in uncertain situations, officials said.
A document on the new approach being released on Monday [10-9-17] also will caution that decisive victory in such a so-called hybrid war may not be possible and warns that policy makers will need to re-evaluate existing constraints and more quickly green light military action.
Adding urgency to the effort, Army officials suggested that other major powers, such as Russia, have outpaced the Pentagon in honing the use of hybrid warfare, also known as multi-domain battle—combining cyberattacks and social-media exploitation with special forces and conventional military units. The Army’s new warfighting concept seeks to narrow that gap…
While the U.S. has used cyberwarfare offensively in the past—for example when the U.S. launched the Stuxnet computer virus targeting Iranian nuclear facilities—that was done often via secret means. While secret efforts would continue, this concept allows the conventional army to acknowledge similar efforts.”
-Ben Kesling and Jullian E. Barnes, “U.S. Army Outlines New Approach to Shifting Battlefields,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 9, 2017 12:00am