My "pointing" has more to do with my firm belief since day 1 that this is not a "mistaken" spread of the virus the world over. A deliberate or accidental release has been exploited.
When Mr Pravin Sawhney talks about disruptive warfare technologies, what he consistently fails to do is elaborate on what he means by it. He has a vague idea which needs to be articulated by him.
Anyone who has "watched" China has to know that China will never directly enter into a military confrontation. The reason - you can not predict the outcome of a war, nor can you control it. So, you employ "disruptive" means.
You attack decision making process in an adversarial country. You use their tools, legal tools, against them. For democracies, it is the fact that anyone can say/do anything and get away with it if there is a concomitant "narrative", howsoever missing on facts, allowed to gain a toehold in the democratic society. Nothing works like further dividing the decision making as does setting a narrative which appeals to the masses. And the masses, unwittingly, play along.
Why a thrust was made over Markaz to give it a religious angle in the social media? Why there remains a thrust to talk about pollution around the time of Diwali? Why there remains a thrust on Kumbh, Ramzan, today? There may be genuine sentiments of patriotic Indians involved, but they merely add to the divisions that are needed within the society to disable a robust response to an enemies act.
Those who may have read me at times, may recollect that when people talk of Information Warfare, I lay more stress on Information Denial. For a democracy, there needs to be strict regulation on what information gets released in public.