NDTV reported a fictitious story saying that an Indian army jawan had been detained by China who was later released citing some sources which was later called a bogus news by Indian Army. If you look at the surface, it appears that it was a fake news but if you
understand subversion you'll realize that it's the part of psychological warfare. As Yuri Bezmenov says, "Subversion is not about blowing up bridges but destroying a country by destroying its systems such as religion, tradition, legal system, information system etc." One of the
basic aspects of Psychological warfare is running the well orchestrated disinformation campaign which appears random without having any deeper meaning. Indeed, NDTV merely reported a story which was based on incorrect information given by the source for the public consumption.
Chinese military thinker Sun-Tzu has written in his 'The Art of War' that the best form of warfare is the warfare in which there is no violence. Such form of war is psychological warfare in which the enemy's country is subverted to the extent that their own people will turn
against the government. KGB used to make its officers compulsorily understand the techniques of Sun-Tzu during their training, and practiced it extensively around the world which has been explained in details by Bezmenov in his lectures. Chinese being the disciples of
Sun-Tzu's warfare technique, former president Hu Jintao had said to PLA that their role doesn't only include guarding the borders and ensuring national sovereignty but extends to running information warfare. This technique was perfected in Vietnam
war when such well orchestrated disinformation campaign was run in USA that even if US forces advanced further, it used to be reported in completely opposite way for the consumption of US citizens. The campaign was so successful that US had to withdraw from Vietnam as
Public opinion turned completely against the war rendering the outcome of military conflict inconsequential. The news run by NDTV achieves two purpose 1. It tells the Indian people that their government is loosing the ongoing conflict resulting in demoralization
Of people and loss in confidence of people in government and 2. Forcing the government to make hasty decisions to salvage its image of being the losing side. In both the situations. India is in disadvantage even after #IndianArmy called fake news the disinformation already
Achieved its objective. In psychological warfare you know that truth doesn't have any relevance if you've managed to send your message to intended audience before. Chinese Army has built a separate doctrine of warfare based on information which they
Call informationization but IndianArmy and government still completely clueless about such warfare techniques. It's not that NDTV was asked by Chinese agents to run the story because subversion doesn't come from state forces alone and it is also comes from ideological adversaries
Who are your citizens perfectly legal thing(journalism) unfortunately our legal system can't recognize such acts of subversion and our government can act only when things go deep wrong. China cant be subverted through psychological warfare easily because it doesn't
Let any raw and unfiltered information from outside to reach its citizens which act's as quite effective shield for the communist China against any form of psychology warfare. It weaponizes information against other state and ensures complete control over information.
