Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture 2015
16 December 2015
RUSI Whitehall
…We must better recognise the power of a potent narrative. In the information age almost all acts of physical violence come with an on-line component, exploiting social networks to manipulate opinion and perception. The tactics employed by Russia in Ukraine, Estonia and Georgia for example, include combinations of information warfare, cyber activity, counter-intelligence, espionage, economic warfare and the sponsorship of proxies.
Lecture by General Sir Nicholas Houghton, Chief of the Defence Staff, UK Ministry of Defence will deliver his annual speech to RUSI.
The Chief of the …read more