{"id":3254,"date":"2018-04-04T22:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2018-04-04T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T22:08:47","slug":"how-to-deal-with-russian-information-warfare-ask-swedens-subhunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/04\/how-to-deal-with-russian-information-warfare-ask-swedens-subhunters\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO DEAL WITH RUSSIAN INFORMATION WARFARE? ASK SWEDEN\u2019S SUBHUNTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3255\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR.jpg 860w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/OSCAR-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defence One<\/p>\n<p>By Elisabeth Braw<\/p>\n<p>A mysterious incident occurs. It can\u2019t be conclusively attributed, but the targeted country pins the attack with near-certainty on another country \u2014 which unleashes a disinformation campaign, ridiculing the target and proposing a range of other explanations. The UK in 2018? Yes \u2013 and Sweden, for far longer.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several decades of hunting submarines in its waters, Stockholm has dealt with similar combinations of mysterious-incident-plus-disinformation-campaign. Other Western nations would do well to learn from the Swedes\u2019 experience.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 16, 2014, news broke that Sweden\u2019s signals intelligence agency, the National Defence Radio Establishment, had intercepted traffic on a Russian emergency channel. The following day, a resident of the Stockholm archipelago contacted the Swedish Armed Forces, saying he had seen what looked like a submarine.<\/p>\n<p>The armed forces immediately dispatched its sub-hunting flotilla and several other vessels. Later that evening, the signals intelligence agency intercepted encrypted Russian radio traffic, tracing its source to an area within the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2018\/04\/how-deal-russian-information-warfare-ask-sweden\/147154\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defence One By Elisabeth Braw A mysterious incident occurs. It can\u2019t be conclusively attributed, but the targeted country pins the attack with near-certainty on another country \u2014 which unleashes a disinformation campaign, ridiculing the target and proposing a range of other explanations. The UK in 2018? Yes \u2013 and Sweden, for far longer. Over&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/04\/how-to-deal-with-russian-information-warfare-ask-swedens-subhunters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW TO DEAL WITH RUSSIAN INFORMATION WARFARE? ASK SWEDEN\u2019S SUBHUNTERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1832,847],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}