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A point of consideration: MIJI. What is
MIJI you ask? Meakoning, Intrusion, Jamming, and interference. This acronym is a term of art I remember from my Navy days. You may look it up in the
Dod Military term Dictionary, plain and new acronym & abbreviations. They have other favorites of mine like MODLOC or as we called it "steaming around in big circle"
Meakoning was a Vietnam war practice of using false radio homing beacons to lure helicopters off course where they could be shot down. It is a commingling of the words Mekon (river delta) Beacon, and Taccan - a pre GPS air navigation system. Intrusion is the practice of pretending to be, on the the radio or some communication system, a friendly force entity for the express purpose of gaining information or giving disinformation. These could be quite elaborate, orchestrated, mimicking multiple units, enemy units, field and headquarter units apparently conversing with each other, and could depict entire fire-fights that in fact never occurred. Jamming and interference are more obvious terms. MIJI was Soviet military doctrine, they believed it was important, a great Force De-Multiplier and possibly they were quite good at it. It was considered a useful tool for asymmetrical warfare. It was learned directly by any military that sent or sends personal to the former Soviet republics for training and indirectly by any student of Vietnamese, North Korean military operations.
I say 'possibly' because it is next to impossible to get the military to admit to any particular instance of being MIJI'd, while they allow that in general it exists. I remember finding it a difficult concept to grasp myself twenty some years ago. Now with Internet and email address hijacking, spoofing, identity theft, hacking and cracking of various intensities I find it easier to consider.
Why do I mention this? Simply put Chatter a term denoting both Elint and communication intercepts. The 'chatter' has been up - this is a statement of statistical relevance. BA flight 223 will have to be grounded and cancelled indefinitely, New York will nuked on 4 February - this is more of a signal to noise issue best pursued through some form of information theory - or possibly game theory. Two recent articles by leading daily newspapers illustrate the murky nature of the data Flight Groundings Lead Allies to Query Washington, and
Hunt for UK terror cell. It is not just in this one aspect of the war on terror that the potential for false or misleading information can be seen. For the purpose of disruption a word alone can cause the Office of Heimat Security, but also for more deliberate diversion. This permeates all aspects of our program of confrontation, not the least its vanguard of military confrontation. Which share at once a primacy of technological absolutism.
There were those who said quietly, because they were not allowed to say it loudly that MIJI was persistent source of failure for the military since the inception of electronic if not electric warfare.
That we have been duped often, and often massively. This is true, because of who we are, because of our progressive technological optimism, our lack of a deep rooted social skepticism. Our belief that our systems and institutions, tools and technology, lead ever upwards towards increased sophistication, incresed wealth, increased ability to reduce any emergent problem. Towards the good. An echo of irr-regarded evolution. We will always believe in the answers, we believe our gadgets have given us.
This is not entirely different from the problems Paul Wolfowitz thought he was addressing with his career long second intelligences. He compounded the problem of tactical and more chimerical strategic deception, by postulating that entire nations- societies- civilizations were composed of a differing second human nature, in which nothing of the self or akin aspiration could be recognized. At best this represents a chain of informal fallacies, running on to willful distortion. A propensity to see deception at a level where it cannot exist, human nature in aggregate is one, and be incapable of seeing it at street level like so many weapons of mirage deception they talked themselves into believing existed. Forever MIJI'd and forever Punk'd.
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