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“Covert warfare by Russia & China, including cyberhacking & disinformation, risks an “uncontrollable state of all-out war”, the head of the (UK) armed forces has warned.”
Read the next tweet in this thread & ponder our lockdowns: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cyberattacks-risk-starting-a-war-defence-chief-says-0nkg6fpt2
“Covert warfare by Russia & China, including cyberhacking & disinformation, risks an “uncontrollable state of all-out war”, the head of the (UK) armed forces has warned.”
Read the next tweet in this thread & ponder our lockdowns: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cyberattacks-risk-starting-a-war-defence-chief-says-0nkg6fpt2
“we might wake up one day & discover that we are in a police state & all of our freedoms have been denied us. That’s one end of it. The other end of it is that our opponents will have found a way to unravel our democracy from inside.”
Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Sir Nick Carter
Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Sir Nick Carter
“And our freedom, our way of life and all the things that we espouse would have been undermined. And we won’t have noticed it.”
Chief of Defence Staff, Sir General Nick Carter
Chief of Defence Staff, Sir General Nick Carter
“Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb, a former director of special forces who led British troops in the Iraq war, said the UK was in a “gathering storm” comparable to the early 1930s before the escalation in hostilities with Germany led to the Second World War.”
“Senior intelligence officials including Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, have warned, however, that China represents a greater long-term threat (than Russia). They say it has been engaged in attempts to steal British intellectual property and target technology and infrastructure.”
“Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, says Britain is being targeted every day by adversaries using cybertools, disinformation, financial corruption and organised crime to “divide us, to weaken us or to compete with us”.
“...by the time we notice that the damage has been done, it is too late.. worrisome nature of the grey zone...You don’t realise that [institutions & the democratic system] have been undermined until it’s already happened because it’s an accumulation of small actions”
Lord Sedwill
Lord Sedwill
