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Ukraine OPSEC Nation
Ideas and Insights for Ukraine’s Communication 2024
This article is written for those not in the know. The definition of OPSEC is most likely not in most people’s everyday vocabulary so let’s provide a definition from the US Department of Defense (DOD) in document DoDD 5205.02E:
A process of identifying critical information and analyzing friendly actions attendant to military operations and other activities to: identify those actions that can be observed by adversary intelligence systems; determine indicators and vulnerabilities that adversary intelligence systems might obtain that could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical information in time to be useful to adversaries, and determine which of these represent an unacceptable risk; then select and execute countermeasures that eliminate the risk to friendly actions and operations or reduce it to an acceptable level.
Basically, keep your mouth, your phone, your computer and camera shut!
You who are observing the War on Ukraine may notice that you receive only a limited amount of information. We are coming up on the 2nd year of the full-scale invasion and it may seem to you outside Ukraine that you are getting even less details. Pretty much everything leaked in the beginning which was both good and bad. Good in that the world got to see firsthand the atrocities being…
