What Is Information Warfare?

Abstract

Is Information War (IW) a nascent, perhaps embryonic art, or simply the newest version of a time-honored feature of warfare? Is it a new form of conflict that owes its existence to the burgeoning global information infrastructure, or an old one whose origin lies in the wetware of the human brain but has been given new life by the information age? Is it a unified field or opportunistic assemblage? Since March 1993, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum of Policy Number 30 (MOP 30) has set forth definitions and relationships that have guided the joint community in its thinking about the related concepts of information warfare and command and control warfare. As these seminal ideas have evolved, their definitions and relationships have changed as well. MOP 30 is under revision, and both higher level policy documents for the Department of Defense and doctrinal publications of the Joint Staff and Services are either in draft form or under revision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA394692

Entities

People

  • Martin C. Libicki

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Warfare
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Infrastructure
  • Language
  • National Security
  • Psychological Operations
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

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