`Task Force Tiger' put to the test

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Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk () c4i org>

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/04/27/story/0000133563

BLINDING THE ENEMY: The nation's new information warfare unit debuted 
during the latest military exercises and observers say it outclassed 
its simulated opponent

STAFF WRITER, WITH REUTERS
April 27th, 2002

The Taiwan military recently completed its Hankuang No. 18 military
exercises, incorporating computerized simulations of an invasion of
Taiwan in 2005 by the Chinese military. The exercise was the first
time that the information warfare group set up by the army last year,
"Task Force Tiger", was a part of the exercises -- featuring in a war
game simulation code-named "Lusheng No. 2".

The Hankuang exercises simulated the army's planned five-step
war-development sequence: information warfare, electronic warfare,
control of airspace, control of the seas and a counterattack on China.

Teachers from the National Defense University played the role of the
Chinese army in a simulation of an information warfare battle against
Taiwan. They first used the Internet to spread false information and
to disguise troop movements in order to confuse Taiwan's military.
They followed this up with intelligence information warfare and
psychological information warfare.

They then launched another information warfare assault, using the
Internet to send e-bombs and computer viruses in an attempt to cripple
Taiwan's information-gathering system.

"Task Force Tiger" countered by using advanced Internet firewalls to
keep enemy hackers out and by launching computer viruses against the
enemy's computer systems.

The army says it has significantly raised its ability to break enemy
database codes and firewall systems. In the exercise it successfully
broke into "the enemy's" computers to cripple its information systems.

Taiwan managed to win the information warfare part of the computerized
war game, defeating the invading army's information warfare department
for the third consecutive year -- making up for deficiencies in the
missile defense system.

US observers were reportedly impressed with the army's ability to
counter enemy hackers and its ability to design firewalls, and they
estimated that Taiwan's information warfare abilities exceed those of
China by far.

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