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Но это больше о конкретной технике иныормационной войны на Украине.
Что думаете?For anyone who is uncertain about the stream of Ukrainian fakes, or wondering if they might in fact be true – they are not. I have first-hand insider experience in the US information war, and will share with you exactly WHY I know these are fakes:
-Photography and video from a combat zone has an inordinately exhaustive clearance process with multiple authorities reviewing and signing off on it. In Iraq as of 2016, it took my photos an average of 2 to 3 weeks to be cleared for release. Even if they were boring and stupid photos you could find on Wikipedia, like soldiers at the USO or a chinook sitting on the airfield. Sensitive footage involving our weapon capabilities and SOPS generally take months to release.
-UAS footage is even more complex to release, and 99.99% of the time can’t be released at all. When you zap an enemy, you OBVIOUSLY don’t want to explain to him how you did it so he can adjust his defenses. The Russians already announced they destroyed these Turkish drones, and was literally the first thing they wanted to destroy. These drones have been slaughtering civilians for months and are deeply hated by the Russian public. If they were wrong and missed a few why would we tell them?
-Information is a warfighting function. Like all of the warfighting functions, they are the responsibility of the commander. He and only he has release authority. Of course a commander usually delegate release authority but if he wants to be a dick and personally review and approve everything, he can. That’s his right because if someone fucks up he’s the one who gets fired. In peacetime back in the states, brigades can clear their own products. In war, not so much. In Kuwait and Iraq, I was having to send my shit to ARCENT, but it’s actually worse than that. If your product involves or even mentions another component or, God help you, another nation, that’s even more people in the chain who need to approve it.
-For anyone who might argue “oh but these videos are good propaganda so they were given expedited approval” – yes they are great propaganda and that’s possible but extremely unlikely. The DOD prioritizes risk management and force protection over media relations, and always has. Most commanders do not give a shit how the unit Facebook page is doing, and to be brutally honest, they’re right. Whatever is gained by quickly releasing a product is NOT worth the risk of accidentally revealing valuable information to the enemy. If you think I’m lying, go look up AR-360-1, and tell me where in that document it says it’s okay for a product to violate OPSEC if you think it’s really cool. High level commands have to review hundreds or even thousands of information products and it is not a fast process.
-For anyone who argues “oh, but it’s the Ukrainian resistance, they’re plucky resistance fighters who are not burdened by the same bureaucracy as the American military. Well They were trained by us. They have the same doctrine and SOPs. They had hundreds of American and British military advisors, and, let’s be honest, at least some of those advisors are still there embedded with and possibly even leading Ukrainian units. I know the Pentagon loudly announced they were withdrawing, but I see no compelling evidence that they actually did.
-It’s not just one or two videos. Only a few “go viral” in the West, but the Ukrainians are vomiting HUNDREDS of these onto the web. How are they doing it so fast, especially when their communication networks must be at least partially disrupted? Remember, you can’t just drop a zipped file into an email, hit “reply all” and ask “Hey guys is it cool if I post this drone video?” Fuck no. I was spending hours wrestling with agonizingly using slow NIPR/SIPR networks, and burning stuff to DVD to deliver by hand, I’m pretty sure it is even more difficult in Ukraine right now.
-The “muh 13 Spartans, the “muh Kiev ghost” and a hundred other examples have been proven to be fake. Why should we believe anything Ukraine is saying right now when they’re quite clearly willing to tell as many lies as necessary to manipulate the American public?
-The Pentagon has people who are exceptionally good at producing fakes. In Afghanistan in the early 2010s, I met an IO shop with guys who could forge extremely convincing photos and hand-written documents meant to cause confusion and distrust in the Taliban. I’m sure they’re even more sophisticated a decade later. And it is common knowledge that we trained a Ukrainian disinformation machine and put it in Crimea. In 2014 they escaped to West Ukraine. They must be using the hell out of it right now, and they’ve had 8 years to produce a mountain of fakes they can drip-feed onto the internet.
I spell it out more in the article below, but that’s the general gist of it.
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/03/11/th ... our-minds/
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