[fullmetal]

While I'm sure the Pentagon and military branches have put every soldier through a powerpoint presentation on what not to do on social media, it seems there is no systemic or structured way to protect against these soft incursions/recon/psyops tactics short of asking social media platforms to use ML to detect Russian activity and firewall it.  And if Russian psyops decides to appeal to the warrior ethos and generate sympathy...isn't that more an indictment of our own military and their inability to think critically?

I remember reading that "story" of the Russian soldier dying in epic fashion in Syria (the story alluded to in the article).  It seemed pretty melodramatic to be true (I did not believe it), but I can definitely see how the story would appeal to veterans.  Great emotional play  :-X

[fullmetal]

While I'm sure the Pentagon and military branches have put every soldier through a powerpoint presentation on what not to do on social media, it seems there is no systemic or structured way to protect against these soft incursions/recon/psyops tactics short of asking social media platforms to use ML to detect Russian activity and firewall it.  And if Russian psyops decides to appeal to the warrior ethos and generate sympathy...isn't that more an indictment of our own military and their inability to think critically?

I remember reading that "story" of the Russian soldier dying in epic fashion in Syria (the story alluded to in the article).  It seemed pretty melodramatic to be true (I did not believe it), but I can definitely see how the story would appeal to veterans.  Great emotional play  :-X