The United States’ Airforce has defined information warfare as:
“any action to deny, exploit, corrupt or destroy the enemy’s
information and its functions while protecting one’s own.”
Contents
- Definition of Information Warfare
- Books about
Information Warfare and Electronic Warfare
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| Definition of Information Warfare
The United States’ Airforce has defined information warfare as:
“any action to deny, exploit, corrupt or destroy the enemy’s
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Governments spend large amounts of money and effort trying to gain information about what is happening both inside and outside their territories. They keep files on their citizens ranging from social security records to secret police files. They compile economic statistics to chart their own economic health and make estimates of the economic health of other states. Most operate intelligence-gathering agencies. In addition to gaining access to information, governments use information as a power capability by disseminating it internationally and domestically. Information can be used against governments as well as by them. Governments, especially repressive ones, fear the free flow of information. When information is allowed to circulate among a population, ideas become a powerful force that can sweep aside regimes. This has happened repeatedly in the past decade, nowhere more stunningly than in Russia and Eastern Europe. New information technologies have become powerful tools of domestic opposition movements and their allies in foreign governments. As the information revolution continues to unfold, it will futher increase international interdependence, making actions in one state reverberate in other states more strongly than in the past.
Definition of Electronic
Warfare (EW)
Any military action involving
the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic
spectrum or to attack the enemy. The three major subdivisions within electronic
warfare are: electronic attack, electronic protection, and electronic warfare
support.
Books about Information Warfare and
Electronic Warfare
Verschlussache
BND, ISBN: 3453141431
Fighter
Wing - Eine Reise in die Welt der modernen Kampfflugzeuge, ISBN: 3453141326
Information
Warfare, ISBN: 1560251328 (only available in english)
What is Information Warfare? (from Martin Libicki, National Defense University)
Information Warfare Eine neue Bedrohung für Staat und Wirtschaft? (german)
Articles (in german) about Information Warfare
Large
link collection about Information Warfare and Electronic Warfare