PENTAGON: TREAT INTERNET LIKE AN ENEMY WEAPONS SYSTEM

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GLOBAL RESEARCH - The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap is blunt
about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is
in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with
as if it were an enemy "weapons system".

The 2003 Pentagon document entitled the Information Operation Roadmap
was released to the public after a Freedom of Information Request by the
National Security Archive at George Washington University in 2006. . .

From the Information Operation Roadmap. . .

"We Must Fight the Net. DoD [Department of Defense] is building an
information-centric force. Networks are increasingly the operational
center of gravity, and the Department must be prepared to fight the net.
DoD's Defense in Depth strategy should operate on the premise that the
Department will fight the net as it would a weapons system."

It should come as no surprise that the Pentagon would aggressively
attack the information highway in their attempt to achieve dominance in
information warfare. Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in the Project for a
New American Century sheds more light on the need and desire to control
information.

The Project for a New American Century was founded in 1997 with many
members that later became the nucleus of the George W. Bush
administration. The list includes: Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, I. Lewis
Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz among many other powerful but
less well know names. Their stated purpose was to use a hugely expanded
U.S. military to project "American global leadership." In September of
2000, PNAC published a now infamous document entitled Rebuilding
America's Defences. This document has a very similar theme as the
Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap which was signed by then
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

From Rebuilding America's Defenses:

"It is now commonly understood that information and other new
technologies... are creating a dynamic that may threaten America's
ability to exercise its dominant military power."

"Much as control of the high seas - and the protection of international
commerce - defined global powers in the past, so will control of the new
"international commons" be a key to world power in the future. An
America incapable of protecting its interests or that of its allies in
space or the infosphere will find it difficult to exert global political
leadership.

"Although it may take several decades for the process of transformation
to unfold, in time, the art of warfare on air, land, and sea will be
vastly different than it is today, and "combat" likely will take place
in new dimensions: in space, cyber-space," and perhaps the world of
microbes. . .

Part of the Information Operation Roadmap's plans for the internet are
to "ensure the graceful degradation of the network rather than its
collapse. . .

As far as the Pentagon is concerned the internet is not all bad, after
all, it was the Department of Defense through DARPA that gave us the
internet in the first place. The internet is useful not only as a
business tool but also is excellent for monitoring and tracking users,
acclimatizing people to a virtual world, and developing detailed
psychological profiles of every user, among many other Pentagon
positives. But, one problem with the current internet is the potential
for the dissemination of ideas and information not consistent with US
government themes and messages, commonly known as free speech.
Naturally, since the plan was to completely dominate the infosphere, the
internet would have to be adjusted or replaced with an upgraded and even
more Pentagon friendly successor.

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