{"id":41477,"date":"2018-12-09T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41477"},"modified":"2018-12-09T08:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:50:26","slug":"mi6s-spymaster-revealed-how-the-uk-is-conducting-fourth-generation-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41477","title":{"rendered":"MI6\u2019s Spymaster Revealed How The UK Is Conducting \u201cFourth Generation Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2018\/12\/08\/mi6s-spymaster-revealed-how-the-uk-is-conducting-fourth-generation-espionage\/\">MI6\u2019s Spymaster Revealed How The UK Is Conducting \u201cFourth Generation Espionage<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger briefed the public about the challenges of so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/mi6-c-speech-on-fourth-generation-espionage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth generation espionage<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s top spy spent some of his time blaming Russia for trying to, as he put it, \u201csubvert the UK way of life\u201d by supposedly poisoning the Skripals and through other mischievous but ultimately never verified actions, though moving beyond the infowar aspect of his speech and into its actual professional substance, he nevertheless touched on some interesting themes. According to him, \u201cfourth generation espionage\u201d involves \u201cdeepening our partnerships to counter hybrid threats, mastering covert action in the data age, attaching a cost to malign activity by adversaries and innovating to ensure that technology works to our advantage.\u201d In other words, it\u2019s all about applying what he calls the \u201cFusion Doctrine\u201d for building the right domestic and international teams across skillsets in order to best leverage new technologies for accomplishing his agency\u2019s eternal mission, which is \u201cto understand the motivations, intentions and aspirations of people in other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he remarked that the so-called \u201chybrid threats\u201d associated with \u201cfourth generation espionage\u201d necessitate \u201cbeing able to take steps to change [targets\u2019] behavior\u201d, this has actually been part and parcel of the intelligence profession since time immemorial, albeit nowadays facilitated by social media and other technological platforms that allow shadowy actors such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/445404-russian-journalist-spy-uk-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK\u2019s own \u201c77<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade\u201d<\/a> to carry out psychological, influence, and informational operations. Younger warned that \u201cbulk data combined with modern analytics\u201d could be \u201ca serious challenge\u201d if used against his country, obviously alluding to <a href=\"https:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2018\/03\/26\/cambridge-analytica-the-facebook-big-data-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Analytica\u2019s purported weaponization of these cutting-edge technological processes<\/a> to supposedly \u201chack\u201d elections&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MI6\u2019s Spymaster Revealed How The UK Is Conducting \u201cFourth Generation Espionage The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger briefed the public about the challenges of so-called \u201cfourth generation espionage\u201d. The UK\u2019s top spy spent some of his time blaming Russia for trying to, as he put it, \u201csubvert the UK way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23410,6108,5110,4546,16011,694,746,2080],"class_list":["post-41477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alex-younger","tag-andrew-korybko","tag-espionage","tag-mi6","tag-oriental-review","tag-russia","tag-spying","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41478,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41477\/revisions\/41478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}