Is Trump Capable of Launching an All-Out Cyberwar? — Jean Perier

Summary:
Backgrounder on cyberwarfare, a step up from economic warfare and internal subversion in the arsenal of hybrid warfare. In this endeavor, the US has merged the State Department, the Pentagon, the intel services, and the private technological companies, along with allies, chiefly "five eyes" – the UK, Canada, Australia and NZ together with the US as leader. The basic idea is to avoid kinetic warfare insofar as possible owing to the high likelihood that kinetic warfare will quickly go nuclear, bring the Great Game to a final end in nuclear winter. The added feature is that hybrid warfare is much less costly economically and also less politically volatile. For those that have not yet noticed, WWIII is already on.NEOIs Trump Capable of Launching an All-Out Cyberwar? Jean Perier

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: cyberwarfare, economic warfare, hybrid warfare, US foreign policy, US military policy

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