Information Ops News Today

Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im victor blackwell. And im amara walker. Israels army appears to be entering a new phase of war. An Army Spokesperson from the idf confirmed to cnn that idf Ground Forces are in gaza right now. Infantry, artillery and other units moved into gaza from the north overnight. As troops march in the north, israel continues to fire missiles across the border. The idf have been launching heavy and continuous air strikes throughout the night into the morning. I...

United nations could be involved, but victoria nuland said if the russians allow it. youre talking about in the middle of a combat zone. usually when warring parties come together and they act under pragmatic and humanitarian rules, they will allow for these kinds of things to happen. but were seeing russia do anything but act under humanitarian rules. they are in fact using those kind of rules. its like putting a meal in front of a starving man and then saying, no, not so fast, were not going g...

Loyalist posted photos on her facebook page which she said showed evidence of genocide in donbas, which she called former ukraine. it shows piled up dead bodies. theres no way to know whether these photos were staged or not. the hybrid warfare group in ukraine explained what to expect based on what putin did in 2014. attempts to steal personal data of ukrainian soldiers for military and psychological operations, sending threating to the soldiers and members of their families, urging them to defe...

Officials to be doing things because they are beholden to foreign powers or because they want to curry favor and have other countries interfere in elections in the future. this is a perilous thing. its also surprising to not see republicans speak out at this point. look, the russians happen to favor trump. next time china might favor a different candidate, a democratic candidate. they arent always going to be on the winning side here so this really is a moment that calls for bipartisan condemnat...

History of using information ops, using hacking, using propaganda, as a soft power tool. that it has done it in the past ten years or so, about 14 times to silence its enemies, to influence political process -- the political process in eastern europe, in germany, when there was a hack of the german parliament. and that each time it has been used quite effectively in ukraine, in georgia, lithuania, that the kremlin becomes more bold, and is -- is finding that it is an effective tool of power. but...

Information ops, they have a word for it. i hope i dont mispronounce it. its moscowrovka, its the deception operations they continually conduct not only in their military affairs, but in their state affairs were. as a military guy having served in europe for a long part of my career, we expected that. wechever i dealt with the russians as a senior commander in europe, we knew that was on their mind to push us in the direction we didnt think they knew about. so you know, all of this is typical ru...

Information ops, demonstrating to the enemy that we are in control of the data. also, it is impressive if you think about the scale of this, it is on the order of a small college library. a lot of the material is encrypted. it is all in foreign languages. the good news for the american public to know is that we have got some of the best code breakers in the world and we have also got machine language translation skills to try to triage through this. >> chad, walk through that process or some of ...

Admiral mullen, saying its not just the military at that brings about the changes, its military, diplomatidiplomatic, information ops that are a spectrum of things that make the changes and we wont know the results of the changes for some time. >> jamie: its important not only to put something together in afghanistan thats never existed before. its a war that has to be thought and pursued in a different approach more going to the war lords and building conference, different than iraq. how do we ...

U.s. command described it. the idea is we used cyber warfare coming from the west to make that fail. thats one area floated out there by folks like yourself. how would that work? >> theres operations on the military side called information operations. this is to degrade all of the pieces. which saw this with the supposed stuxnet and if it was u.s. and irani and if it was focused on the program there we saw that in action back in 2010. right, so what this does is there are groups out there within...