US plans to fight the net revealed

Recently a new document was declassified by the pentagon. It provides a remarkable look at the US military’s plans for a mission called “Information Operations.” The document is titled “Information Operations Roadmap.” The National Security Archive at George Washington University was able to obtain the document using the Freedom of Information Act. It was written by officials at the Pentagon in 2003. Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense signed it. The document describes operations that included an astonishing range of military activities. These activities included; public affairs officers briefing journalists, operations troops who were trained to use psychological maneuver to manipulate the enemies’ thoughts and believes, specialist who were trained to in computer network attack to destroy the networks belonging to the enemy. These military psychological operations, referred to as Psyops, are finding their way onto computers and televisions of normal Americans. The news media will play these messages often to a larger audience of the American public. The Department of Defense’s strategy is based on the basis that they will “fight the net.” They consider the Internet as an enemy weapons system. The document declares that the United States should have the ability to take over and “provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum.” According to the document, US forces should have the right to “disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapon systems that are dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum.” Based on the fact that the “Information Operations Roadmap” is approved by the Secretary of Defense tells us that the Pentagon takes these plans seriously.