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Information Warfare: US Army is not Battlefield Ready

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Ricky Bollerman
Information Warfare: US Army is not Battlefield Ready

“China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasingly use cyber operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways – to steal information to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure,” wrote Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in a global threat assessment report released earlier this year.

Turns out, the reality is graver than that.

The United States Army is unprepared for future informational warfare.

Speaking at the military technology conference TechNet Augusta on Tuesday, General Paul Funk, commander, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), said the U.S. will need to dominate the flow of information across modern and future battlefields.

“At TRADOC, we are working to include information dominance in the Army campaign plan, to declare or decide who has proponency and to develop an information strategy,” Gen. Funk said during the first morning’s keynote.

“We need to invest in the appropriate resources, in the data mining, in the alerts, in the restructuring of information operations for success on the future battlefield.”

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