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<\/h1>\nThe U.S. is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure<\/a><\/h1>\n <\/p>\n
Like Cyber Polygon, RAND\u2019s \u2018Inverted Rook\u2019 wargame warns of catastrophic cyber attacks leading to societal breakdown: perspective<\/h2>\nThe United States is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure, according to a wargame simulated by the RAND Corporation.<\/h2>\nPrepared for the head of the US spy community \u2014 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) \u2014 the RAND\u00a0report<\/a>, \u201cDefending the United States Against Critical Infrastructure Attacks: Exploring a Hypothetical Campaign of Cascading Impacts\u201d details a wargame from earlier this year called \u201cInverted Rook,\u201d which simulated multiple attacks on critical infrastructure.<\/h2>\nThe authors note that although this scenario is a hypothetical use case of a future adversarial campaign, it is based on real-world examples that have targeted \u201ccommunications, financial services, health care, municipal services, energy, transportation, and water.\u201d<\/h2>\nIn this fictional scenario, the motivation behind the simulated attacks was to interrupt US involvement in a conflict overseas by creating havoc, chaos, and mayhem on American soil through a combination of physical and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.<\/h2>\nThese include:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Physical attacks on electrical substations<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
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Ransomware attacks on government services<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Malware attacks on power grids<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Disruptions in transportation<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Hackers remotely poisoning water treatment facilities<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
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Cyber attacks on Wall Street<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe ripple effect from each attack, either simultaneously, or one after another would lead to:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Government services being shut down<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Power outages affecting hospitals, transportation, refrigeration, heating, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Sickness and death from poisoned water, hypothermia, exposure, civil unrest, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Financial services being disrupted<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Splitting factions between those blaming domestic extremists, foreign adversaries, and their own government<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
The inability of government to go after foreign adversaries in order to deal with all the domestic chaos<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAccording to RAND, \u201cThe adversary uses a variety of tactics to create an atmosphere of mistrust in government, sow tensions among the general populace, saturate the news media, and totally consume the target state\u2019s political bandwidth to reach its ultimate goal of preventing, delaying, or constraining the US response to the adversary\u2019s actions abroad<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nAdditionally, \u201cAttacks intended to forestall a US response to aggression overseas could create fear among the general public, undermine social cohesion, and paralyze political decision making structures<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nRTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
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H\/T Montana The U.S. is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure Like Cyber Polygon, RAND\u2019s \u2018Inverted Rook\u2019 wargame warns of catastrophic cyber attacks leading to societal breakdown: perspective The United States is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure, according to a wargame simulated by the RAND Corporation. Prepared for the head of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,5478,2805,2122,13,74,4445,5653,1317,4912,4126,883,4479,14643,14588,5594,1814,65,16173,15639,3712,1898,7357],"tags":[5001,17678,16600,3658,3116,5002,7806,17478,9366,17679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76377,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions\/76377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The United States is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure, according to a wargame simulated by the RAND Corporation.<\/h2>\nPrepared for the head of the US spy community \u2014 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) \u2014 the RAND\u00a0report<\/a>, \u201cDefending the United States Against Critical Infrastructure Attacks: Exploring a Hypothetical Campaign of Cascading Impacts\u201d details a wargame from earlier this year called \u201cInverted Rook,\u201d which simulated multiple attacks on critical infrastructure.<\/h2>\nThe authors note that although this scenario is a hypothetical use case of a future adversarial campaign, it is based on real-world examples that have targeted \u201ccommunications, financial services, health care, municipal services, energy, transportation, and water.\u201d<\/h2>\nIn this fictional scenario, the motivation behind the simulated attacks was to interrupt US involvement in a conflict overseas by creating havoc, chaos, and mayhem on American soil through a combination of physical and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.<\/h2>\nThese include:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Physical attacks on electrical substations<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Ransomware attacks on government services<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Malware attacks on power grids<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Disruptions in transportation<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Hackers remotely poisoning water treatment facilities<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Cyber attacks on Wall Street<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe ripple effect from each attack, either simultaneously, or one after another would lead to:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Government services being shut down<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Power outages affecting hospitals, transportation, refrigeration, heating, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Sickness and death from poisoned water, hypothermia, exposure, civil unrest, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Financial services being disrupted<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Splitting factions between those blaming domestic extremists, foreign adversaries, and their own government<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
The inability of government to go after foreign adversaries in order to deal with all the domestic chaos<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAccording to RAND, \u201cThe adversary uses a variety of tactics to create an atmosphere of mistrust in government, sow tensions among the general populace, saturate the news media, and totally consume the target state\u2019s political bandwidth to reach its ultimate goal of preventing, delaying, or constraining the US response to the adversary\u2019s actions abroad<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nAdditionally, \u201cAttacks intended to forestall a US response to aggression overseas could create fear among the general public, undermine social cohesion, and paralyze political decision making structures<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nRTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
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H\/T Montana The U.S. is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure Like Cyber Polygon, RAND\u2019s \u2018Inverted Rook\u2019 wargame warns of catastrophic cyber attacks leading to societal breakdown: perspective The United States is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure, according to a wargame simulated by the RAND Corporation. Prepared for the head of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,5478,2805,2122,13,74,4445,5653,1317,4912,4126,883,4479,14643,14588,5594,1814,65,16173,15639,3712,1898,7357],"tags":[5001,17678,16600,3658,3116,5002,7806,17478,9366,17679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76377,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions\/76377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The authors note that although this scenario is a hypothetical use case of a future adversarial campaign, it is based on real-world examples that have targeted \u201ccommunications, financial services, health care, municipal services, energy, transportation, and water.\u201d<\/h2>\nIn this fictional scenario, the motivation behind the simulated attacks was to interrupt US involvement in a conflict overseas by creating havoc, chaos, and mayhem on American soil through a combination of physical and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.<\/h2>\nThese include:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Physical attacks on electrical substations<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Ransomware attacks on government services<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Malware attacks on power grids<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Disruptions in transportation<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Hackers remotely poisoning water treatment facilities<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Cyber attacks on Wall Street<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe ripple effect from each attack, either simultaneously, or one after another would lead to:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Government services being shut down<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Power outages affecting hospitals, transportation, refrigeration, heating, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Sickness and death from poisoned water, hypothermia, exposure, civil unrest, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Financial services being disrupted<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Splitting factions between those blaming domestic extremists, foreign adversaries, and their own government<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
The inability of government to go after foreign adversaries in order to deal with all the domestic chaos<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAccording to RAND, \u201cThe adversary uses a variety of tactics to create an atmosphere of mistrust in government, sow tensions among the general populace, saturate the news media, and totally consume the target state\u2019s political bandwidth to reach its ultimate goal of preventing, delaying, or constraining the US response to the adversary\u2019s actions abroad<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nAdditionally, \u201cAttacks intended to forestall a US response to aggression overseas could create fear among the general public, undermine social cohesion, and paralyze political decision making structures<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nRTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
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H\/T Montana The U.S. is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure Like Cyber Polygon, RAND\u2019s \u2018Inverted Rook\u2019 wargame warns of catastrophic cyber attacks leading to societal breakdown: perspective The United States is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure, according to a wargame simulated by the RAND Corporation. Prepared for the head of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,5478,2805,2122,13,74,4445,5653,1317,4912,4126,883,4479,14643,14588,5594,1814,65,16173,15639,3712,1898,7357],"tags":[5001,17678,16600,3658,3116,5002,7806,17478,9366,17679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76377,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions\/76377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
These include:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Physical attacks on electrical substations<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Ransomware attacks on government services<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Malware attacks on power grids<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Disruptions in transportation<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Hackers remotely poisoning water treatment facilities<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Cyber attacks on Wall Street<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe ripple effect from each attack, either simultaneously, or one after another would lead to:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Government services being shut down<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Power outages affecting hospitals, transportation, refrigeration, heating, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Sickness and death from poisoned water, hypothermia, exposure, civil unrest, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Financial services being disrupted<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Splitting factions between those blaming domestic extremists, foreign adversaries, and their own government<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
The inability of government to go after foreign adversaries in order to deal with all the domestic chaos<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAccording to RAND, \u201cThe adversary uses a variety of tactics to create an atmosphere of mistrust in government, sow tensions among the general populace, saturate the news media, and totally consume the target state\u2019s political bandwidth to reach its ultimate goal of preventing, delaying, or constraining the US response to the adversary\u2019s actions abroad<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nAdditionally, \u201cAttacks intended to forestall a US response to aggression overseas could create fear among the general public, undermine social cohesion, and paralyze political decision making structures<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nRTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
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H\/T Montana The U.S. is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure Like Cyber Polygon, RAND\u2019s \u2018Inverted Rook\u2019 wargame warns of catastrophic cyber attacks leading to societal breakdown: perspective The United States is unprepared for attacks on critical infrastructure, according to a wargame simulated by the RAND Corporation. Prepared for the head of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,5478,2805,2122,13,74,4445,5653,1317,4912,4126,883,4479,14643,14588,5594,1814,65,16173,15639,3712,1898,7357],"tags":[5001,17678,16600,3658,3116,5002,7806,17478,9366,17679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76377,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76372\/revisions\/76377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Physical attacks on electrical substations<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
Ransomware attacks on government services<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
Malware attacks on power grids<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
Disruptions in transportation<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
Hackers remotely poisoning water treatment facilities<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
Cyber attacks on Wall Street<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe ripple effect from each attack, either simultaneously, or one after another would lead to:<\/h2>\n\n- \n
Government services being shut down<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Power outages affecting hospitals, transportation, refrigeration, heating, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Sickness and death from poisoned water, hypothermia, exposure, civil unrest, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Financial services being disrupted<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Splitting factions between those blaming domestic extremists, foreign adversaries, and their own government<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
The inability of government to go after foreign adversaries in order to deal with all the domestic chaos<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAccording to RAND, \u201cThe adversary uses a variety of tactics to create an atmosphere of mistrust in government, sow tensions among the general populace, saturate the news media, and totally consume the target state\u2019s political bandwidth to reach its ultimate goal of preventing, delaying, or constraining the US response to the adversary\u2019s actions abroad<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nAdditionally, \u201cAttacks intended to forestall a US response to aggression overseas could create fear among the general public, undermine social cohesion, and paralyze political decision making structures<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\nRTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
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Government services being shut down<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
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Power outages affecting hospitals, transportation, refrigeration, heating, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Sickness and death from poisoned water, hypothermia, exposure, civil unrest, etc.<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Financial services being disrupted<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
Splitting factions between those blaming domestic extremists, foreign adversaries, and their own government<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
The inability of government to go after foreign adversaries in order to deal with all the domestic chaos<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
According to RAND, \u201cThe adversary uses a variety of tactics to create an atmosphere of mistrust in government, sow tensions among the general populace, saturate the news media, and totally consume the target state\u2019s political bandwidth to reach its ultimate goal of preventing, delaying, or constraining the US response to the adversary\u2019s actions abroad<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\n
Additionally, \u201cAttacks intended to forestall a US response to aggression overseas could create fear among the general public, undermine social cohesion, and paralyze political decision making structures<\/em>.\u201d<\/h2>\n
RTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n
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