Beyond Infowars.
"What are we going to do, nuke them for turning off our TV's?" –DOD
official
"Make your enemy your spy. If you can't do that–just kill them,
quietly." –Ian Flemming
Command and control systems (CCS) within the informatic state have been
re-shifting their definition of war for sometime. That surveillance
would become a priority is no surprise. The NSA (National Sercurity
Agency) and the (NRO) National Reconnaissance Office have been working
on implementing new functions for themselves since the end of the
post-Cold War.
They had to re-invent themselves into hyper-surveillance networks that
can accomplish defensive intelligence gathering and rapid containment
missions for the lowest possible cost. Since then IW (Information War)
has become the dominant concern. Now it is more important to attack an
oppenent's information infrastructure, than it is to destroy its armies.
Gulf War actions are now only useful for limited screenal political
gambits.
The new functions of dematerialized power fine that it is now more
effective to command, control communication, computers, and intelligence
systems (C4I) of an opponent's civilian information infrastructure. The
enemy is now hosted by the global public commercial networks. IW tactics
must now maintain a constant analysis of all information flows and a
contiunous tracking of the backbone routes in search of the most
effective way to bring down specific zones of resistence within an
enemies political or economic structures:
1. Commercial communication systems.
2. Broadcasting networks.
3. Financial data systems.
4. Transportation systems.
5. Internet Server networks.
Of course one of the problems faced by these IW scenarios is that
miltitary and intelligence systems here are also routed within the
public commercial lines. Jamming by cells of highly trained
ideologically driven netwarriors could systematically disrupt wide areas
of sensitive networks. These micro-squads could slip basic disturbances
into the chips bought by the U.S military-entertainment complex from
foreign countries. Many of these elements are part of a wide range of
defensive and offensive weapon systems–that could induce general
disfunction in performance at a pre-set time.
The scenarios of possible implosions faced by the decentralization of
command and control are increasing at a co-equal rate with the speed of
accesss to hardware, software, and trainning. Late-capital demands that
this equation grow even faster and to the farthest reaches of the globe.
The necessity of the rule of association and strategic coalitions
between military and intelligence networks with mega-corperation webs,
universities, independent ISP's, electronic political cells, individual
research and analysis creates a general state of pananarchy.
Thus IWW (Information World War) has already started and it is haunted
by its own shadow. Electronic command, control, communication,
computers, and intelligence systems (C4I) must face the task of dealing
with what it must become. "The only way to counter networks, is to
become networks.":
1. Bottom-up architecture.
2. Multiple distribition points.
3. Memetic networks (MMN): independent networks which coordinate without
the unification of a central command.
4. Nonliearity and complexity effects: where simple interactions lead to
unpredictable outcomes.
5. Constant states of emergency: all systems are always already not
enough and must be constantly upgraded.
6. Soft Power Systems (SPS): these structures are caught in the
speed-economies of late-capital demassification makes SPS volatile,
vulnerable and open.
This is why reasearch and intelligence (RI) are rapidly moving toward
more direct methods of information tactics–specifically "neo-cortical
warfare." Why try to define and control unstable electronic systems, why
not just go directly to the root of the problem. RI is now investigating
and developing methods of direct action against individuals and groups
that fail to follow the bottom-line of Late Capital.
Human capital as agency (or agent) is much more open to C4I tactics than
networks are or have been. The gamble that the War Machine is now
takening will have little to do with the electronic community. They have
already lost that battle and must now mimic it in order to survive
within it–now it is seeking the rapid development of meme based weapons
and micro-genetic weapons.
If one can stop individuals and groups, a priori, with pre-programmed
meme-engines the necessity of any sort of battle will never emerge.
Adversary information warriors are now being defined and treated as
"memoids–people who are so possessed by a meme that they can justify
any deed, while feeling that neither their own nor their oppenent's
survival matters as long as the meme goes foward." Strong "neo-cortical"
meme tactics are now being developed with the aggressive focus that the
Nuclear Bomb was in the Fifties.
Better yet kill the root of the problem by stopping the reproduction of
specific individual human captial or problematic collections of bodies.
A final solution for a new century. Gene Based Wepon Research (MBWR)
moves beyond Infowar (IW) to the next level beyond surveilence and meme
control as it goal: the development of command, contagion, containment,
and control virus systems (C4VS).
C4VS will seek out specific genetic registers for erasure. As Sun Tzu
states, "if the root is cut, the tree will not grow and bear fruit."
Thus command and control issues will move beyond Infowars in the next
decade and to over come the problematics of electronic (C4I) related
conflicts.
Thing Memo 3
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Type: discussion