Comments on: Coming to a Networked Device Near You: Cyberwar!

By: Nice One, Chairman Bruce « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions

Nice One, Chairman Bruce « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:43:22 +0000

[...] VA, or inside the Beltway either, not that anyone he’s critiquing probably gives a shit. Cyber ShockWave proved [...]

By: Cyberwar: Kaplan on Clarke « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions

Cyberwar: Kaplan on Clarke « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:07:20 +0000

[...] Cyber ShockWave, back in February? Remember Joe Lockhart’s comments [...]

By: From the Listening Post… 04/02/2010 (a.m.) « Sean Lawson, Ph.D.

From the Listening Post… 04/02/2010 (a.m.) « Sean Lawson, Ph.D. — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:37:26 +0000

[...] more and more difficult to write off as paranoid post-structuralism. Events like the CNN-mediated Cyber ShockWave exercise of February 2010 do nothing to dispel unease about these relationships. From a critical [...]

By: To Cyberwar, Or Not to Cyberwar « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions

To Cyberwar, Or Not to Cyberwar « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:54 +0000

[...] I also recommend one of Jason Sigger’s recent posts, Cyber Warfare – It’s the New WMD, and the ongoing contribution of George Smith, particularly Cult of Cyberwar: When Booz Allen’s Mouthpiece Attacks. These refer to the recent Cyber ShockWave exercise / CNN tie-in that I first wrote about at the beginning of February, Coming to a Networked Device Near You: Cyberwar! [...]

By: Weblog

Weblog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:24:51 +0000

[...] Kings of War has a good piece on the recent US "Cyber Shock Wave" stunt. Posted on Mar 08, 10 | 8:09 pm | MoreSo far: 0 views | 0 comments | 0 Trackbacks [...]

By: Tim Stevens

Tim Stevens — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:29:37 +0000

I think you can see that video at the Der Derian page I linked to also. Yup, Virilio would have loved this. Der Derian draws more heavily on Virilio than perhaps any other writer except Walter Benjamin, although he expands Virilio’s rather dark thesis into something more tangible and immediate. Both Virilio and Der Derian are prone to technological determinism, although neither can be accused of not reading the runes more-or-less correctly.

Der Derian’s Virtuous War is essentially a critique of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), and concludes thus:

Facing the multiple pathologies of the global war on terror, having spent a decade deciphering the mixed signals of virtuous wars [i.e. hi-tech wars theoretically characterised by remote warfare and semiotic conflict], and after the sacrifice of so many humans, I no longer doubt that the cure [the RMA] has proven worse than the disease.

Strong stuff. So where does televised cyberwar simulation fit into all this? …

By: Fear, Politics and Budgets « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions

Fear, Politics and Budgets « ubiwar :: conflict in n dimensions — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:19:44 +0000

[...] February 17 tags: CNN, cybersecurity, cyberwar, White House by Tim Stevens I’m sure the Cyber ShockWave exercise has been very useful to all concerned. So thinks former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, who [...]

By: Miss Info

Miss Info — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:27:39 +0000

You can see a video trailer to James Der Derian’s Virtuous War 2.0: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XLUI6sM8nQ (note ZNN at the University of Southern California’s ICT, the Krasnovians, and Virilio’s take on Cyberwar in 1995).

By: Tim Stevens

Tim Stevens — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:56:12 +0000

Jeff,

I’m aware of the simulated media environments that are such a major part of crisis response training these days. The ones I’ve seen are pretty sophisticated and can be real game-changers.

Here’s a GNN video posted last month:
http://somalilandpress.com/10882/somaliland-recognition-in-june-future-scenarios/

It was the mention of CNN later in the Atlantic article that got me thinking about this initially. It wouldn’t be at all unusual for the experience to be recorded, of course, but I admit to being a little off-course in my initial judgement.

The really interesting bit is still where the game and its media traces interact with the wider network beyond its participants. That’s already happening, of course, and I wonder how or if that feeds back into the game somehow?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:44:56 +0000

Tim – I doubt you’re dim… I would strongly speculate that “GNN” is a reproduction of CNN modeled for the exercise. The replication is quite good if this is in fact what they will show “live” and most likely on closed circuit TV for the exercise audience. I’ve watched “GNN” during other National Level Exercises and that helps give the participants a more realistic feel and reaction to energize the exercise play…. I am not sure how much the real CNN will get as snipets or live feeds…