Otter Globe and Intelligencer: “This essay is intended to provide a greater understanding of how social media offensives correlate to traditional military objectives. The topic of information warfare has received far greater attention since the United States Presidential election of 2016. This essay will focus specifically on the topic of apparent information warfare efforts impacting the United States of America between 2016 and 2021.”
“The definition of information warfare capabilities used here comes from Russian General of the Army and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov: ‘The very ‘rules of war’ have changed. The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness…The focus of applied methods of conflict has altered in the direction of the broad use of political, economic, informational, humanitarian, and other nonmilitary measures – applied in coordination with the protest potential of the population.'”