{"id":1270828,"date":"2022-02-04T06:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270828"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:52:34","slug":"a-cyber-pearl-harbor-putins-secret-plan-to-defeat-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-cyber-pearl-harbor-putins-secret-plan-to-defeat-america\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Cyber Pearl Harbor\u2019: Putin\u2019s Secret Plan To Defeat America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-cyber-pearl-harbor-putins-secret-plan-to-defeat-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Readers-Pass-Koffler-Why-Putin-may-unleash-a-Cyber-Pearl-Harbor-on-America-in-a-showdown-over-Ukraine-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fears of a \u201cCyber Pearl Harbor\u201d that have been pre-occupying US cybersecurity experts for years have become especially acute, as Putin raises the ante in a potential deadly showdown with the US over Ukraine. Last week, Homeland Security alerted Americans that Putin is readying a cyber strike on US homeland. The potential non-kinetic attack may, as the DHS advisory warned, cause disruptions to public safety. Here\u2019s why the Kremlin chose a cyber-strike to signal to Washington, to stay out of Ukraine, on which Putin wants to impose his version of the Monroe Doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia believes cyber warfare is an effective way to weaken the Americans\u2019 will to support their leaders decisions to intervene in conflicts on Russia\u2019s periphery. On his orders, Putin\u2019s strategists developed a sophisticated doctrine called \u201cinformation confrontation\u201d (\u0438\u043d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435&nbsp;&nbsp;\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e). This concept envisions a combination of technical cyber intrusions into the adversary\u2019s computer systems \u2014 with the intent to disrupt operations, steal secrets, and corrupt or destroy data \u2014 and disinformation intended to manipulate the population\u2019s opinion. Moscow believes cyber can serve as a potent non-kinetic tool that can be used to destabilize an opponent\u2019s society, without triggering his military response, and also as a weapon, capable of plunging an entire country into darkness, whenwar is unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this quote by Major General Igor Dylevsky, the leading expert on cyber warfare in Russia\u2019s General Staff<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cBy inserting disinformation in publications, advocating extremist ideas, inciting racist and xenophobic flashmobs, conducting interstate computer attacks on the critical infrastructure targets that are vital for the functioning of a society, it is possible to \u2018heat up\u2019 the situation in any country, all the way up to the point of social unrest.\u201d Speaking at the Sixth Moscow Conference on International Security, Dylevski pointed to the unique nature of information weapons because they are \u201cbloodless\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t destroy the environment,\u201d capable of delivering a \u201cblow to the adversary\u201d through such peaceful channels as the internet, telecommunications networks, and mass media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has the most sophisticated and destructive arsenal of cyber weapons of any foreign nation. It rivals only that of American cyber warriors. The Russians are very fast, stealthy, when they choose to be, creative, superior in programming power and can burrow so deeply into the opponents systems that it\u2019s next to impossible to kick them out. Putin ultimately controls this capability that his war planners view as strategic, comparable to nuclear weapons &nbsp;because of the destructive effect they can produce on the adversary\u2019s military, economy, vital support structures such as hospitals, as well as the popular psyche. This is employment of what Russia calls \u201cinformation weapons,\u201d especially in high-stakes operations, such those that target US elections, requires Putin\u2019s authorization, as Russia\u2019s Commander-in-Chief.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been waging war on US networks and American minds for decades, stealing secrets, mapping out access to our critical infrastructure in the event of war \u2014 which Moscow believes is inevitable in the long-term \u2013 and signaling to US leaders its displeasure with US policy impacting Russia. Since the first known Russian cyber operation, \u201cMoonlight Maze,\u201d that targeted US systems over many years, the Russians have penetrated every major US government agency \u2014 to include the Pentagon, the State Department and the White House \u2014 and scores of US businesses, organizations and think tanks. Vast amounts of critical, secret data have been stolen from our military, government, and civilian networks. At one point, Russian \u201cKaspersky Lab\u201d anti-virus software, developed by a firm owned by a former KGB officer, was running on many US government\u2019s computers. Former president Trump signed a law that banned the use of Kaspersky software by federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Having faced no meaningful pushback to its cyber-bullying in almost 30 years or to other violations, like the invasion of Georgia and Crimea, it is not by chance, that Russia feels that it can outmaneuver US leaders and \u2014 if we try to undo Putin\u2019s Playbook \u2014 to defeat America in a \u201cnew generation\u201d cyber warfare. Unleashing Cyber Armageddon on America would be Putin\u2019s last ditch effort, if he thought that &nbsp;US troops were about to flood into Ukraine to bloody his nose. Regretfully, Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cexperts,\u201d just like Obama\u2019s and their predecessors\u2019, failed to develop a viable deterrence strategy to counter Putin\u2019s cyber warfare and protect Americans, beyond calling the Russian KGB spy master a \u201ckiller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Rebekah Koffler is a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and currently a strategic intelligence analyst with The Lindsey Group. She is the author of\u202f \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Putins-2DPlaybook-2DRussias-2DSecret-2DAmerica_dp_1684510031_-3F-5Fencoding-3DUTF8-26pd-5Frd-5Fw-3DLcqhU-26pf-5Frd-5Fp-3D8b894231-2D4b84-2D44da-2D9446-2Dc27cf0e8abc2-26pf-5Frd-5Fr-3DP3YSQZ4ZKC4959QY0CW8-26pd-5Frd-5Fr-3D3723f5e2-2D58c9-2D47ec-2D8f79-2Ddc8c148c265e-26pd-5Frd-5Fwg-3D7vUGK-26ref-5F-3Dpd&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&amp;r=WKaH1vFYj7fnFkioUplDf7eyhgA7RmadhwSCcSrc0RM&amp;m=3dNukCsI4RFVX6jw0mmObxGP7qUJjeiVLWFl5OaTEDL4i5Tq7Bk1__zmAyjPUZx3&amp;s=EXvOiSx6YlQPERsrhoeyALa75iOKSug8YMwV2dL52fc&amp;e=\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u%3Dhttps-3A__www.amazon.com_Putins-2DPlaybook-2DRussias-2DSecret-2DAmerica_dp_1684510031_-3F-5Fencoding-3DUTF8-26pd-5Frd-5Fw-3DLcqhU-26pf-5Frd-5Fp-3D8b894231-2D4b84-2D44da-2D9446-2Dc27cf0e8abc2-26pf-5Frd-5Fr-3DP3YSQZ4ZKC4959QY0CW8-26pd-5Frd-5Fr-3D3723f5e2-2D58c9-2D47ec-2D8f79-2Ddc8c148c265e-26pd-5Frd-5Fwg-3D7vUGK-26ref-5F-3Dpd%26d%3DDwMFaQ%26c%3Duw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI%26r%3DWKaH1vFYj7fnFkioUplDf7eyhgA7RmadhwSCcSrc0RM%26m%3D3dNukCsI4RFVX6jw0mmObxGP7qUJjeiVLWFl5OaTEDL4i5Tq7Bk1__zmAyjPUZx3%26s%3DEXvOiSx6YlQPERsrhoeyALa75iOKSug8YMwV2dL52fc%26e%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643996626056000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0RSbTfM0hq96VNZC8rMUpK\"><em>Putin\u2019s Playbook: Russia\u2019s Secret Plan to\u202fDefeat America<\/em><\/a><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears of a \u201cCyber Pearl Harbor\u201d that have been pre-occupying US cybersecurity experts for years have become especially acute, as Putin raises the ante in a potential deadly showdown with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}