CONFLICTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BASED ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL WARFARE– “HYBRID WARFARE”, DISINFORMATION AND MANIPULATION

The role and responsibilities of psychiatry in 21st century warfare.

When I first worked with detainees at Guantánamo Bay, I was troubled by a peculiar and unsettling awareness, a collision of polar opposites that has shadowed all my experiences there. Here I was, focusing on torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of prisoners and yet, these were the very men who were the “enemy.” As a career Army officer, I pledged to protect our nation against all...

The Principle of Discrimination in 21st Century Warfare

Third-degree conflicts: information warfare

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 1–4. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.2 The concept of the Internet as a potential military battlefield is not particularly new. The Internet itself is rooted to the military notion of a bomb-proof defense network. Similarly, the feasibility of attacking information systems across this network was proven in the 1980s by the Morris Worm. This Internet worm...

Intrafamily and intragenomic conflicts in human warfare

Recent years have seen an explosion of multidisciplinary interest in ancient human warfare. Theory has emphasized a key role for kin-selected cooperation, modulated by sex-specific demography, in explaining intergroup violence. However, conflicts of interest remain a relatively underexplored factor in the evolutionary-ecological study of warfare, with little consideration given to which parties...

Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web

Over the past couple of years, anecdotal evidence has emerged linking coordinated campaigns by state-sponsored actors with efforts to manipulate public opinion on the Web, often around major political events, through dedicated accounts, or “trolls.” Although they are often involved in spreading disinformation on social media, there is little understanding of how these trolls operate, what type ...