Cyber Soldiers: UK Announces Creation Of The 77th Battalion

The documents leaked by Edward Snowden demonstrate that the NSA and its allies are now preparing for future dominance in cyberspace.

Cyberspace is a strategic domain for modern warfare, for this reason, the British Government has decided to create a new cyber unit composed of cyber experts, so-called "Facebook Warriors", which will "wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns".

According to the Financial Times, the new cyber unit will be named the 77th battalion due to a historical significance.

"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." reported the Financial Times.

The group will use social networks like Facebook and Twitter to monitor their opponents, the information they produce and to run PSYOPs.

The British army will assign more than 1,500 specialists to the new troop that will use popular social networks to spread disinformation, run intelligence operations and disclose real war truths.

The 77th battalion will reportedly begin its activity in April 2015. The decision of the British Government to create the 77th battalion cyber unit follows a similar initiative of other governments that are using social networks to run cyber espionage campaigns, spread disinformation or influence the human sentiment about specific topics.

As reported by the Guardian, both the Israeli and US army have already dedicated internal staff to psychological operations run through social networks. An Israel Defense Force spokesperson revealed that the IDF used 30 different social media sites in several different languages during Operation Cast Lead in an effort to "engage with an audience we otherwise wouldn't reach."

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