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Having good control over the signals your soldiers emit is life or death and win or lose in modern war. If command does get control over that it becomes a great tool for deception in detail. If they do, the Pentagon might want to make an announcement like this to lure their enemies into using this data.

Battlefield AI could continuously generate simulations of troop deployments in plausible detail and publish them by loading web pages with spoofed location data on behalf of warfighter's "private" devices. They could also use drones as a kind of infantry chaff, with correct electromagnetic signatures from infrared to wifi.