- In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed
a document called the Information Operation Roadmapwhich outlined, among
other things, the Pentagon's desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic
spectrum.
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- If you are unfamiliar with this document, more detail
can be found in a previous article here.
- http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200711/20071105_IOR_1_Thrust.htm
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- Dominate
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- From the Information Operation Roadmap:
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- "We Must Improve Network and Electro-Magnetic Attack
Capability. To prevail in an information-centric fight, it is increasingly
important that our forces dominate the electromagnetic spectrum with attack
capabilities." [emphasis mine] - 6
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- "Cover the full range of EW [Electronic Warfare]
missions and capabilities, including navigation warfare, offensive counterspace,
control of adversary radio frequency systems that provide location and
identification of friend and foe, etc." - 61
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- "Provide a future EW capability sufficient to provide
maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, denying, degrading,
disrupting, or destroying the full spectrum of globally emerging communication
systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependant on the electromagnetic
spectrum." [emphasis mine] - 61
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- "DPG [Defense Planning Guidance] 04 tasked USD(AT&L)
[Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics],
in coordination with the CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] and
Services, to develop recommendations to transform and extend EW capabilities,
... to detect, locate and attack the full spectrum of globally emerging
telecommunications equipment, situation awareness sensors and weapons engagement
technologies operating within the electromagnetic spectrum." [emphasis
mine] - 59
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- Stealthy Platforms Above Your House
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- "Develop a coherent and comprehensive EW [Electronic
Warfare] investment strategy for the architecture that... Pay particular
attention to:
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- - (U) Projecting electronic attack into denied areas
by means of stealthy platforms... As a matter of priority, accelerates
joint development of modular EW payloads for the Unmanned Combat Aerial
Vehicle." [emphasis mine] - 62
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- It is interesting to see the mention of stealthy platforms
like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) because they are now patrolling both
the Canadian and Mexican borders of the United States and will soon be
patrolling the arctic. With funding supplied by Homeland Security, US police
departments are also using UAVs to spy on the citizens below. A couple
of examples are Sacramento, California and...
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- "one North Carolina county is using a UAV equipped
with low-light and infrared cameras to keep watch on its citizens. The
aircraft has been dispatched to monitor gatherings of motorcycle riders
at the Gaston County fairgrounds from just a few hundred feet in the air--close
enough to identify faces--and many more uses, such as the aerial detection
of marijuana fields, are planned."
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- The Electronic Battlespace
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- "The ACTD [Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration]
should examine a range of technologies including a network of unmanned
aerial vehicles and miniaturized, scatterable public address systems for
satellite rebroadcast in denied areas. It should also consider various
message delivery systems, to include satellite radio and television, cellular
phones and other wireless devices and the Internet." [emphasis mine]
- 65
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- "Exploits other transformational EW initiatives,
including use of the E-Space Analysis Center to correlate and fuse all
available data that creates a real time electronic battlespace picture."
[emphasis mine] - 62
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- How exactly do you create a real time electronic battlespace
picture? And where exactly is the battlespace? A very similar statement
was made in the Project for a New American Century document Rebuilding
America's Defenses published in September of 2000
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- "New classes of sensors - commercial and military;
on land, on and under sea, in the air and in space - will be linked together
in dense networks that can be rapidly configured and reconfigured to provide
future commanders with an unprecedented understanding of the battlefield."
- pg 59
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- An article written by Mark Baard from Parallelnormal.com
sheds some light on this subject.
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- "Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, and Providence,
R.I. are among the cities partnering with private companies and the federal
government to set up public broadband internet access. Providence used
Homeland Security funds to construct a network for police, which may be
made available to the public at a later date..."
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- "But even if the cities fail to complete their Wi-Fi
projects, the military will be able to set up wireless networks within
hours, perhaps even faster."
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- "The DOD [Department of Defense], which is in the
middle of joint urban war-games with Homeland Security and Canadian, Israeli
and other international forces, is experimenting with Wi-Fi networks it
can set up on the fly."
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- "According to a recent DOD announcement for contractors,
soldiers will be able to drop robots, called LANdroids... when they arrive
in a city. The robots will then scurry off to position themselves, becoming
nodes for a wireless communications network. (Click here to download a
PDF of the DOD announcement.)"
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- "The Wi-Fi antennae dotting the urban landscape
will serve not only as communications relays, but as transponders that
can pinpoint the exact positions of of individual computers and mobile
phones - a scenario I described in the Boston Globe last year."
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- "In other words, where GPS loses site of a device
(and its owner), Wi-Fi will pick up the trail."
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- "The antennae will also relay orders to the brain-chipped
masses, members of the British Ministry of Defense and the DOD believe."
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- Conclusion
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- My next article will examine the Pentagon's desire to
"fight the net" as outlined in the Information Operation Roadmap.
Also, I will examine the use of psychological operations or PSYOP and highlight
the complete lack of limits to the use of all these information operations,
be it on domestic American or foreign audiences.
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- © Copyright Brent Jessop,
- http://KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com
- Knowledge Driven Revolution.com, 2007
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