And it wasn’t confined to Russia, China or anyone else. “We are now in the foothills of the Information Age” the memo announced. By An unorthodox one, but in the eyes of the British Army also a necessary innovation; simply reflecting the world in which we all now live and the new kind of warfare that happens within it. The 77 SB participated in the exercise in preparation for their deployment to the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility. RAND research has enabled military leaders and policymakers to... We would like to hear from currently serving reservists who are looking for a change and want to get involved with Information activity and outreach programmes. Challenge the difficulties of modern warfare. One of the goals of Nato information warfare was to counter this kind of threat: sharply rebutting damaging rumours, and producing videos of Nato troops happily working with Baltic hosts. Our outputs are a fundamental part of the Army’s Integrated Action model. In this year’s study reported Facebook use was, according to Pew, “notably lower” than the percentage of teens who said they used YouTube (85%), Instagram (72%) or Snapchat (69%). An engagement now doesn’t just happen … In 2014, a year before the 77th was established, a memo entitled “Warfare in the Information Age” flashed across the British military. Information campaigns such as these are “white”: openly, avowedly the voice of the British military. But it takes time. Today, that sacred site is the internet itself. Our aim is to challenge the difficulties of modern warfare using non-lethal engagement and legitimate non-military levers as a means to adapt behaviours of the opposing forces and adversaries. Our outputs are a fundamental part of the Army’s Integrated Action model. Far less visible to Western eyes, however, were the outbreak of other theatres of information warfare outside of the English language. “They prepare the campaign, penetrate the target audience, maintain the operation, and then they strategically disengage. Delivering a brief aimed at Officers and other ranks from the Regulars and Reserves. It came from the state, but sometimes included plenty of non-state actors too. It is only going to get bigger.”. Information has long been used to support combat operations, but now combat was seen to taking place primarily, sometimes exclusively, through it. The unit was formed in a hurry in 2015 from various older parts of the British Army – a Media Operations Group, a Military Stabilisation Support Group, a Psychological Operations Group. 77th Sustainment Brigade . Walking through the headquarters of the 77th, the strange new reality of warfare was on display. Marc Owen Jones, a researcher at Exeter University’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, exposed thousands of fake Twitter accounts in Saudi Arabia, “lionising the Saudi government or Saudi foreign policy”. The C-26 is an operational support aircraft. But that wasn’t what was going on here. The Black Hawk crew’s main mission is moving members of the National Guard and their equipment. Last week, the UK’s and the British Peace Support Team (Africa) delivered an Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) Staff Officer’s course at the International Peac….