Forcing the Internet on Dictatorships.

Dictators may realize that it would be more efficient to simply remove Internet access. The U.S Military has the ability to establish a temporary Internet signal. Spencer describes this technology, “Commando Solo, the Air Force’s airborne broadcasting center. A revamped cargo plane, the Commando Solo beams out psychological operations in AM and FM for radio, and UHF and VHF for TV. Arquilla doesn’t want to go into detail how the classified plane could get a denied Internet up and running again, but if it flies over a bandwidth-denied area, suddenly your Wi-Fi bars will go back up to full strength” (Spencer). It is feared that forcing the Internet on a country maybe considered an act of war. “The trouble is, if a government follows Egypt’s lead and turns off the Internet, it’s not going to be keen to see a meddling foreign power turn it back on. That act might not be as provocative as sending in ground troops or dropping bombs. But it’s still an act of what you might call forced online entry by definition, a hostile one” (Spencer). More on this recent technology can be found here.