The Pentagon’s War on the Internet

The Pentagon’s War on the Internet

By Mike Whitney

The Pentagon has developed a comprehensive strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information. The plan appears in a recently declassified document, “The Information Operations Roadmap”, which was provided under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and revealed in an article by the BBC.

The Pentagon sees the internet in terms of a military adversary that poses a vital threat to its stated mission of global domination. This explains the confrontational language in the document which speaks of “fighting the net”; implying that the internet is the equivalent of “an enemy weapons system."

The Defense Dept. places a high-value on controlling information. The new program illustrates their determination to establish the parameters of free speech. The Pentagon sees information as essential in manipulating public perceptions and, thus, a crucial tool in eliciting support for unpopular policies. The recent revelations of the military placing propaganda in the foreign press demonstrate the importance that is given to co-opting public opinion.

Information-warfare is used to create an impenetrable cloud around the activities of government so that decisions can be made without dissent. The smokescreen of deception that encompasses the Bush administration has less to do with prevaricating politicians than it does with a clearly articulated policy of obfuscation. “The Information Operations Roadmap” is solely intended to undermine the principle of an informed citizenry.

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Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda

Secret Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries"
between "information operations" abroad and at home
but provides no actual limits as long as US doesn't "target" Americans

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 177

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Posted - January 26, 2006


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...ago I would've laughed dismissively at rhetoric like this:

The Pentagon’s plans for engaging in “virtual warfare” are impressive. As BBC notes: “The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.” (BBC)

The enemy, of course, is you, dear reader, or anyone who refuses to accept their role as a witless-cog in new world order. Seizing the internet is a prudent way of controlling every piece of information that one experiences from cradle to grave; all necessary for an orderly police-state.


...I'm not laughing now. This is only a question of time.

4 years ago this was going to happen and everyone said it wasn't possible to control the internet. Once you recognize that they want to control the world; the internet is jsut a small part.

...have been among the myopic fools who would've wrongly judged your prediction alarmist only four years ago. We live we learn.

Talk about myopic. I posted an article on Dominionism and how they were trying to take over the country. They REMOVED the thread. I was so pissed I never went back........funny how time has marched on and we ALL know I was correct!

of the U.S. (and the entire planet) by BushCo and their affiliate cabals . . . it is the ONLY way for individual citizens to get good information, share it with one another, and try to figure out what's REALLY going on in the corporate/government complex that is seeking to own and/or control everything and everyone . . . and, ultimately, to come together to stop them . . .

without the Internet, we are screwed . . .