Meet the 77th Battalion – The British Army is Mobilizing 1,500 “Facebook Warriors” to Spread Disinformation

Screen Shot 2015-02-02 at 3.38.47 PMThe British Army will revive one of the most contentious special forces units of the second world war, the Chindits, as a new generation of “Facebook” warriors who will wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns.

– From the recent FT article: Army Revives Chindits as ‘Facebook Warriors’ for Smart Battle

Get ready, social media is about to get far more treacherous than it already is. Be extra careful jumping to conclusions, always think for yourself and use your best judgement. Government psy ops are about to go into overdrive.

Gizmodo reported the following:

A new group of soldiers, referred to as “Facebook Warriors” will ” wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns,” according to the Financial Times. This unit will be named the 77th battalion, whose number also has a historical significance. FT says:

The original Chindits [77th battalion] were a guerrilla unit led by the swashbuckling British commander Major General Orde Wingate, one of the pioneers of modern unconventional warfare. They operated deep behind Japanese lines in Burma between 1942 and 1945 and their missions were often of questionable success.

These Facebook warriors will be using similar atypical tactics, through non-violent means, to fight their adversary. This will mainly be achieved through “reflexive control,” an old Soviet tactic of spreading specifically curated information in order to get your opponent to react in the exact way you want them to. It’s a pretty tricky trick, and the British army will be doing just that with 1,500-person (or more) troop using Twitter and Facebook as a means to spread disinformation, real war truths, and “false flag” incidents as well as just general intelligence gathering. The 77th battalion will reportedly begin operations in April.

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In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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13 thoughts on “Meet the 77th Battalion – The British Army is Mobilizing 1,500 “Facebook Warriors” to Spread Disinformation”

  1. Here in Canada, the Harper administration has been doing this outwardly with increased numbers of “Information Officers” that report to the PMO’s office. All, at a time when long form census, scientific libraries, and all forms of government staffing have been decreased. We can only imagine how our intelligence agency has been increasing it’s social media propaganda corps as well.,. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/information-services-staff-has-grown-15-under-harper-1.1319930

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  2. Use countermeasures. It’s not that hard once you get over your pride. Don’t frequent forums where people post unsupported or weak assertions, as these are the best for the trolls to cast doubt and disinformation on. Start keeping an archive of factual material, and use that to quote with attribution or post links for all your statements. Keep comments and thread participation to a minimum, posting only hard facts in a brief unassailable manner, and then never argue or name-call. Eventually, you will be ad hominem attacked for this – ignore it. Finally, get the hell off FarceBook, TWITter, and all the “social media”. They are monitored, trolled, suppressed wastes of time, that feed off the individual’s pride of being noticed, of “counting” in society, and of winning arguments that are actually idiotic mudfights.

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  3. Not a good choice for unit name but a valid new form of warfare. In the civil war spies were looked on as scum and lower than prostitutes because real Soldiers wore flashy uniforms and walked towards the muskets but the spies sure made a big difference on the battlefireld.

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  4. Propaganda aside, calling a bunch of chairborne commandoes like this “Chindits” is an insult to the original article. The real Chindits were at least brave, patriotic, and highly skilled, regardless of their overall success. But yeah, if you’re not on Facebook, stay off. If you’re on it, get off…

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  5. Who cares what the FT disinformation practitioners think about the efficacy of the Chindits? Having known a former Chindit officer turned history teacher at school and read his account, they did achieve a successful breach of the Japanese supply lines in the Burmese jungle, which cut off two Jap divisions. The Chindits lost half of their personnel to disease, while walking through the jungle .

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  6. Due to secret security agreements between GCHQ/NSA/ANZO described in the book “The Puzzle Palace” the total number might easily be TEN thousand or more doing the above….

    Also helpful when dealing with these hired internet guns, is to be familiar with:

    “Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

    Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.

    1) Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.

    2) Wax indignant. This is also known as the “How dare you?” gambit.

    3) Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.” (If they tend to believe the “rumors” it must be because they are simply “paranoid” or “hysterical.”)

    4) Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.

    5) Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nutcase,” “ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and, of course, “rumor monger.” Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the “more reasonable” government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own “skeptics” to shoot down.” Continues HERE: http://www.dcdave.com/article3/991228.html

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