A shadow war is a war that, officially, does not exist. As mercenaries, hackers and drones take over the role armies once played, shadow wars are on the rise.
States are evading their responsibilities and driving the privatization of violence. War in the grey-zone is a booming business: Mercenaries and digital weaponry regularly carry out attacks, while those giving orders remain in the shadows.
Despite its superior army, the U.S. exhausted its military resources in two seemingly endless wars. Now, the superpower is finally bringing its soldiers home. But while the U.S.’s high-tech army may have failed in Afghanistan, it continues to operate outside of official war zones. U.S. Special Forces conduct targeted killings, using drones, hacks and surveillance technologies. All of this is blurring the lines between war and peace.
The documentary also shows viewers how Russian mercenaries and hackers destabilized Ukraine. Indeed, the last decade has seen the rise of cyberspace armament. Hacking, sometimes subsidized by states, has grown into a thriving business. Digital mercenaries sell spy software to authoritarian regimes. Criminal hackers attack any target that can turn a profit for their clients.
But the classic mercenary business is also taking off, because states no longer want their official armies to go into battle. Former mercenary Sean McFate outlines how privatizing warfare creates an even greater demand for it. He warns that a world of mercenaries is a world dominated by war.
[This documentary was originally released in 2021]
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Its bulshit, all off this is USA , not russia………US did al the cyber attacks. because the price from oil go up.
Stuxnet 2.0 nice
Ridiculous expenditure of our nations money…… when I think of all the other useful issues this kind of cash could work towards solving or indeed actually solve, it just sickens me… the homeless, the nearly homeless ( think the struggling working poor) medical research…. I mean the list just wont stop……….. other issues like the ridiculous cost of housing, gas, cars for people who need them but cant actually afford them……… all these things could be FREE or nearly so if it was not for the cost of defense… yes maybe someday, when we all smarten up and figure out HOW to GET ALONG with each other these things AND MORE could be a reality….. Sooo Stupid.
Democrats knew that war,crime, death was an economy that created profits,jobs,revenue, population control. If someone else kills you, government don't get the blame
Soon democrats will cap off when retirement begins. They know you'll squeal for the money.
please dont show clips of our pretend president with his pretend brain…
Pretty funny the CIA wanted to keep the Burundi President alive but had no problem toppling/kiling Saddam or Gaddafi.
Awesome sharing
Disgusting!!!
In 2013 Snowden escaped to Russia with troves of confidential NSA software and operational procedures and is now a Russian citizen. His claim was that America would be unfair to him as a 'whistle-blower', but how is Putin treating his political opponents? Snowden is an international criminal as well as a traitor to America.
Ethernal Blue is nothing there vulnerabilities outhere that don't require an outbound socket connection to be opened that is activated by a click. An attacker can easley do a reverse meterpreter connection on a target and gain full control of a target.
That's bio warfare, or germ warfare.
What "future" ?
Scary stuff right here!!
14:38 it only works against racially inferior people or non white populations.
Somebody opened the wrong attachment
20:51 cold blooded murder of 17 Iraqi civilians everybody gets pardoned.
Biden is very uninspiring boring speaker.9:19
24:15 it's usually black or non white people who have thier cities destroyed.
Kind of ok to kill non white people.
Dw is a German channel which is us colony to this day without any independent foreign policy so the dw documentary becomes propaganda pretty quickly.
34:46 always bombing Black's and non white people.
37:48 dehumanise and black people before killing them.
39:28 don't try it on isreal they will fuck America up.
well we all know now, sandworm is employed by Russia
6:30 that was not a virtual attack that was physical attack through distributed USB sticks with a virus on them for the coolers!
Who are those other nine people? 20 new terrorist
Plausible deniability, Kite operations, mercenary actions against anti-US forces… you be the judge. "If you are caught the (insert name here) government will disavow any knowledge of your actions." Bad intelligence cost real human lives. The one thing NO government says is… "Oops, my bad!" War's good business, and business is GOOD!