Israel’s Tech Tactics and the Future of Total War
Israel’s Tech Tactics and the Future of Total War The weaponization of surveillance, AI, and deepfakes in modern conflict. Alexander Dugin Since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza – almost immediately following the Hamas attack on Israel during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which triggered a chain reaction of subsequent events – we have witnessed Israel’s deployment of military technologies previously unseen in action. These technologies played a decisive role in securing Israeli success in several military and political operations. They involved the use of communication devices, computers, mobile phones, and even pagers to inflict sensitive, even critical, losses on the enemy. This tactic was tightly interwoven with missile strikes and combat drones. Moreover, it is now clear that Israel actively employed deepfake technology. Together, these factors have fundamentally transformed the nature of modern warfare. Israel’s adversaries in the Middle East were utterly...