ARNSF: Virtual Warfare

This event is only open to members of the ARNSF. If you are not a member but are interested in joining, contact John Nelson at John.nelson@cgscf.org.

In this presentation of the Arter-Rowland National Security Forum, retired Col. Steve Banach will discuss virtual warfare. With the conduct of warfare and nation-state security transitioning from a tactical physical battle space to a strategic and unending global virtual war paradigm, the world is experiencing a new ubiquitous form of warfare with Russia and China as the United States’ greatest competitors.

Banach contends that we have an opportunity to develop solutions that are favorable to the U.S., but we must act now. The entity that controls the virtual domain and masters virtual war campaigning first, will indirectly achieve social control, and will win every war they engage in, at pennies on the dollar.

Col. Steve Banach, U.S. Army, Ret., served 27 years in uniform, retiring in 2010. He is a Distinguished Member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. While commanding the 3rd Ranger Battalion, he led U.S. Army Rangers during a historic night combat parachute assault into Afghanistan on Oct. 19, 2001, as the “spearhead” for the Global War on Terror for the United States of America, after 9/11. Banach subsequently led U.S. Army Rangers in a second combat parachute assault into Al Anbar Province in western Iraq in 2003. He earned a Bronze Star Medal for valor in combat, and a Bronze Star Medal for service to the nation. He also earned two Bronze Combat Jumps Stars.

Banach later led the Information Warfare Design Planning Team for the U.S. Army Management Office – Cyber (DAMO–Cyber) in the Pentagon, and has produced numerous innovative virtual war publications, presentations and podcasts.

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The Arter-Rowland National Security Forum is an exclusive professional information sharing and networking event exclusively for members of the forum and select invitees of the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center and the Kansas City Chapter of the Association of the United States Army (KCAUSA), the co-hosts of the Forum.