​National security implications

The Sunday Times, page B5

The future of war is fought from the inside out with information, not bullets. “If you are the chief of general staff of any country, near or far, it will be a serious error not to incorporate these tenets (of information warfare) into the planning for your military doctrine,” said RSIS’ Dr Shashi Jayakumar, adding that these methods are low-cost, highly efficient and difficult to detect. Perpetrators who are known to be involved in such disinformation operations should also be detained under the Internal Security Act during emergencies, wrote NTU Asst Prof Liew Kai Khiun in his submissions.