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Soldiers stupid and disobedient enough to carry their own tracking devices into the field on operations are teaching their units harsh lessons when entering combat. The Association of the United States Army, the U.S. Army's professional association and lobbying group, has an article on how mobile phones are used against soldiers carrying them in the field. This includes, but is not limited to, psychological operations, artillery strikes, monitoring, or all three at once. Given the lax discipline about leaving the mobile phones behind, the attacks built on phone info have been increasingly successful both physically and mentally.
[Ed Note: The second link details how Russian backed separatists are using advanced EW and psyops tactics against the Ukrainian Armed Forces]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @04:54PM
There is an old adage that "only connection secure of eavesdropping is a common idea connection"
Consider two cooperating parties on a same task.
They follow the same rules of making decisions and acting upon them.
If they need to make a plan, they know each and every maneuver by heart. So all possible plans are pre-coded in an indexed code book.
Let's assume that their situation awareness is complete (it is not but let's go with the assumption). On any development in the arena which does not have unambiguously single response, they both come to same conclusion that there is a choice to be made of how to cooperate on the next step, but they need to chose complementary actions.
Now, imagine if they had a shared random number generator which would make identical suggestion to both of them. Are you already guessing where this is going?
Yes, you were right, quantum entanglement - it can't deliver information from A to B, but it can deliver same random information to both A and B, with E learning neither the content of it, nor the fact that there was communication, nor the location of A and B.
You make your preparation such that you have many options of same worth, so that any of them would do, but the advantage is that you and your ally know which option is chosen, while your common opponent has no clue.
Now, it is a sort of placing faith in randomness, gambling with your luck, but like I said, preparation phase must determine choices of approximately equal worth.