Information warfare is not just about getting your own message across. It also involves confusing, distracting, dividing and demoralising the adversary. That is what Russia is doing to the West, notably through outlets such as RT (the multilingual television channel formerly known as Russia Today).
The West has been asleep on this for many years. After 1991, Soviet propaganda seemed utterly discredited, and Russia was adopting a Western-style system of mixed public and private outlets, with a wide range of views and legal protection from state interference. What could possibly go wrong?
So Western countries dozily closed down their vestigial information-warfare operations, …read more
Source: European Voice
