Global Engagement: Building Castles on Sand?

Abstract

Good news...US national-level policy and military doctrine, at Joint and Service levels, now recognize Information as a specific domain in which to conduct operations, paralleling that of air, land, and sea. They realize wars can be fought and lost in the information domain. Conducting information operations without effective opposition, defined as Information Superiority , can be as crucial as air superiority to the outcome of war. Information Superiority now stands as one of six Joint operational concepts and as one of six Air Force core competencies. AFDD 1-1 states, Dominating the information spectrum is as critical to conflict now as controlling air and space, or as occupying land was in the past, and is seen as an indispensable and synergistic component of air and space power. 3 This concept expands the battle domain formerly recognized only as air, land, and sea.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA399255

Entities

People

  • Carl D. Bass

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Combat Areas
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Network Security
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Network Architecture
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space