Unrestricted Warfare Targets Civilians

Historically, targeting civilians as a part of conflict has been considered immoral. This dates to Sun Tzu, centuries BC, “to besiege cities is the worst form of warfare.” But under the new “unrestricted warfare” rules of Russia, China and others, targeting average Americans has become the forward edge of the battle area. Hacking into the DNC servers, creating FB accounts labeled BlackLivesUSA and urging protests and counter-protests, presumably with the hope of inciting violence, injury, deaths and arrests (Mueller Report) and creating fake news stories that Taiwan stranded their citizens during an outage at the airport in Japan, resulting in a suicide (DOD Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment). How do we fight these immoral efforts that capitalize on of our fundamental freedoms of speech and assembly? https://media.defense.gov/2023/Nov/17/2003342901/-1/-1/1/2023-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE-STRATEGY-FOR-OPERATIONS-IN-THE-INFORMATION-ENVIRONMENT.PDF