Information Warfare [Hardcover]

Cyberspace is one of the major bases of the economic development of industrialized societies and developing. The dependence of modern society in this technological area is also one of its vulnerabilities. Cyberspace allows new power policy and strategy, broadens the scope of the actors of the conflict by offering to both state and non-state new weapons, new ways of offensive and defensive operations.

This book deals with the concept of information war , covering its development over the last two decades and seeks to answer the following questions: is the control of the information space really possible remains or she a utopia? What power would confer such control, what are the benefits?

 

Introduction ix

Chapter 1. The United States 1

1.1. Information warfare in the 1990s 1

1.1.1. Points of view from security experts 1

1.1.2. US Air Force Doctrine: AFDD 2-5 (1998) 7

1.1.3. The doctrine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee: JP 3-13 (1998) 10

1.1.4. Components of information warfare 14

1.2. Information warfare in the 2000s 23

1.2.1. Dictionary of the Department of Defense 23

1.2.2. US Air Force: AFDD 2-5 (2005) and AFPD 10-7 (2006) 24

1.2.3. The doctrine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee: JP 3-13 (2006) 26

1.3. Information warfare in the 2010s 28

1.4. Important concepts and reflections 43

1.4.1. Information operations 44

1.4.2. Information superiority 51

1.4.3. The “value” of information 62

1.4.4. Information system 65

1.4.5. Command and control warfare: C2W 66

1.4.6. Effect-based operations (EBOs) 68