[Lakeshark]

A long, interesting, and good read.

[ClearCase_guy]

The individual facts in Wikileaks may have some importance, but the really key thing is the methodology. This is like the emergence of the Blitzkrieg. All of a sudden, we live in a different world, and I think it is a world that is less conducive to central control.

Cue the Steve Jobs "1984" commercial.

[SpinnerWebb]

bump for later reading

[vanilla swirl]

Commies have used anarchists before to stir things up before. Wikileaks is just the 21st century version.

[drangundsturm]

We will soon realize we have to treat these cyber attacks for what they are: acts of war. And we have to respond “asymmetrically”.

This is just another example of how liberals treat acts of war and terrorism as law enforcement events and not military events.

[theDentist]

ping; well worth a read

[Nip]

Before I retired as a contractor I had the privilege (?) of reviewing multiple military manuals, doctrine statements and similar documents.

The one point that I tried to make for several years is that Information Warfare and its sibling Information Operations MUST be front end loaded for every military operations, kinetic or otherwise. The story that hits the street first, no matter how inaccurate, will be the one that is believed. Wikileaks and “urban myths” from the 1980s and later prove this.

The most important thing that our children and grandchildren must learn, either at home or in schools, is the ability to weed out falsehoods and half truths from the things they read, no matter the source. There is absolutely no other safety mechanism in tomorrow's information centric world.

[MaggieCarta]

Thank you for posting this, Lakeshare. It is a very interesting read.

[Matchett-PI]

Hey WikiLeaks! Show us the REALLY good stuff.

Rush Limbaugh Wants Julian Assange To Find the Really Good Stuff
Glynnis MacNicol | Dec. 7, 2010, 10:05 AM | 440 |
http://www.businessinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-wants-julian-assange-to-find-obamas-birth-certificate-2010-12

If WikiLeaks TMZ ever becomes a reality maybe Rush could have his own segment. From yesterday’s radio show:

“Where are the WikiLeaks documents to prove 9/11 was inside job by George Bush and Dick Cheney? Let me ask you liberals, where are these cables?

“Where are the documents to prove Bush intentionally lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to invade the country?

Where is the WikiLeaks document, the State Department cable, whatever, that [Karl] Rove leaked Valerie Plame’s name to the media?

Where’s all this good stuff? ...

“Where are the WikiLeaks cables proving that the CIA invented AIDS? Where is Obama’s birth certificate? Where’s the real good stuff?

And how about all the hundreds of other left-wing lies we’ve been hearing about for years?

[Is] WikiLeaks covering up for the United States?”

[Roses0508]

Bump can’t read on Blackberry

[theDentist]

They are correct in that warfare is changing significantly. Russians and Chinese have tested weaponry to disable satellites; The Chinese used a laser on one, the Russians used the brute-force method of sending one of their old/useless ones crashing into another. What will happen when a Troopser's new weapons system of the future fails mid-battle because a missile has targeted and destroyed the satellite? Back to basics!

On a less technical front, there are few armies facing off against one another across a front. It's denigrated to guerrilla warfare and small terror cells sprinkled across the cities.

[ventanax5]

“The latest Overblown Theory by American Thinker’s number one Overblown Theorist, J.R. Dunn, takes the form of a huge article that covers the gamut from Julian Assange to Lord Byron, from the Stuxnet computer worm which sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program to Dunn’s urging that “we must revive the idea of the heroic.” What it all means I don’t rightly know (which doesn’t mean that there is not an overall coherence in the article which I am not yet seeing—if a reader figures it out, let me know). Dunn’s one point that I do get, coming at the end of the piece, is that Assange represents the final decadence and petering out of the Romantic Rebel, clearing the way to a Victorian-type restoration of bourgeois Christian society. A restoration to be led, no doubt, by Sarah Palin. “

LA

[prairiebreeze]

Very good read. Thanks for posting this Lakeshark.

(Merry Christmas)

[neverdem]

Yes, there has been ancillary damage to the United States. But the catastrophic damage is limited to the Democratic brand -- the ultimate proof, written in letters a mile high, that if Luxembourg were to attack the U.S. with a Democrat in office, we'd all be subjects of the Grand Duke two weeks later, without, furthermore, anybody being able to figure out how it happened.

For this point of view, it's clear that Julian has been calling in artillery rounds on his own position.

LOL!