Digital Deception: Implications of Pursuing Decision Superiority Using Deception in Cyberspace

Abstract

Military Deception is one of the tools of information Warfare (IW) and a key enabler of "Decision Superiority." The next generation of military deception will include digital deception: deception in cyberspace. Joint Vision 2020 calls for U.S. Joint Forces to strive for, and obtain Decision Superiority as the goal of their Command and Control Warfare (C2W) efforts. The logical culmination of the pursuit of dominance across the cognitive hierarchy, Decision Superiority is the ability to make prudent military decisions while denying one's adversaries the same. What is deception's role in the pursuit of Information and Decision Superiority? How does digital deception differ from traditional military deception? What advantages does it offer over traditional deception? What are the challenges to implementing deception in the digital domain? These are the questions addressed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 18, 2001
Accession Number
ADA393533

Entities

People

  • Jerald L. Smith

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Cyberspace
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Internet
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control