Information Operations Matters

Author : Leigh Armistead
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781597976596

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Information Operations Matters by Leigh Armistead Pdf

Introduced in 1998 by the Department of Defense, the concept of information operations (IO) proposed to revolutionize the ways in which warfare, diplomacy, and business were conducted. However, this transformation has not come to fruition. Two large gaps remain: between policy and theory, and between the funding needs of IO initiatives and the actual funds the federal bureaucracy is willing to provide to support these operations. These two discrepancies are central to the overall discussions of Information Operations Matters. Leigh Armistead explains why these gaps exist and suggests ways to close them. Also in discussing best practices in IO, he clarifies how the key agencies of the U.S. government can use the inherent power of information to better conduct future strategic communication campaigns. Information Operations Matters presents a more pragmatic approach to IO, recommending that IO policy be made surrounding usable concepts, definitions, theories, and capabilities that are attainable with the resources available. To meet the threats of the future as well as those facing us today, Armistead argues, it is necessary to use this new area of operations to the greatest extent possible.

Author : Joint Forces Staff College (U.S.)
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597973557

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Information Operations by Joint Forces Staff College (U.S.) Pdf

The modern means of communication have turned the world into an information fishbowl and, in terms of foreign policy and national security in post-Cold War power politics, helped transform international power politics. Information operations (IO), in which time zones are as important as national boundaries, is the use of modern technology to deliver critical information and influential content in an effort to shape perceptions, manage opinions, and control behavior. Contemporary IO differs from traditional psychological operations practiced by nation-states, because the availability of low-cost high technology permits nongovernmental organizations and rogue elements, such as terrorist groups, to deliver influential content of their own as well as facilitates damaging cyber-attacks ("hactivism") on computer networks and infrastructure. As current vice president Dick Cheney once said, such technology has turned third-class powers into first-class threats. Conceived as a textbook by instructors at the Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School of the U.S. Joint Forces Staff College and involving IO experts from several countries, this book fills an important gap in the literature by analyzing under one cover the military, technological, and psychological aspects of information operations. The general reader will appreciate the examples taken from recent history that reflect the impact of IO on U.S. foreign policy, military operations, and government organization.

Author : Julie Ryan
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781908272089

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Leading Issues in Information Warfare and Security Research by Julie Ryan Pdf

As virtually every aspect of society becomes increasingly dependent on information and communications technology, so our vulnerability to attacks on this technology increases. This is a major theme of this collection of leading edge research papers. At the same time there is another side to this issue, which is if the technology can be used against society by the purveyors of malware etc., then technology may also be used positively in the pursuit of society’s objectives. Specific topics in the collection include Cryptography and Steganography, Cyber Antagonism, Information Sharing Between Government and Industry as a Weapon, Terrorist Use of the Internet, War and Ethics in Cyberspace to name just a few. The papers in this book take a wide ranging look at the more important issues surrounding the use of information and communication technology as it applies to the security of vital systems that can have a major impact on the functionality of our society. This book includes leading contributions to research in this field from 9 different countries and an introduction to the subject by Professor Julie Ryan from George Washington University in the USA.

Author : Christopher Paul
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076167447

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Information Operations—Doctrine and Practice by Christopher Paul Pdf

A no-nonsense treatment of information operations, this handbook makes clear what does and does not fall under information operations, how the military plans and executes such efforts, and what the role of IO ought to be in the war of ideas. Paul provides detailed accounts of the doctrine and practice of the five core information operations capabilities (psychological operations, military deception, operations security, electronic warfare, and computer network operations) and the three related capabilities (public affairs, civil-military operations, and military support to public diplomacy). The discussion of each capability includes historical examples, explanations of tools and forces available, and current challenges faced by that community. An appendix of selected excerpts from military doctrine ties the work firmly to the military theory behind information operations. Paul argues that contemporary IO's mixing of capabilities focused on information content with those focused on information systems conflates apples with the apple carts. This important study concludes that information operations would be better poised to contribute to the war of ideas if IO were reorganized, separating content capabilities from systems capabilities and separating the employment of black (deceptive or falsely attributed) information from white (wholly truthful and correctly attributed) information.

Author : Patrick D. Allen
Publisher : Artech House Information Warfa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1580535178

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Information Operations Planning by Patrick D. Allen Pdf

Information operations involve the use of military information and how it is gathered, manipulated, and fused. It includes such critical functions as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, command and control, communications, and precision navigation. Separating myth from reality, this authoritative resource provides military professionals with a current and comprehensive understanding of information warfare operations planning, including offensive, defensive, and influence operations. The book identifies the features of information operations that differ from traditional military operations and reveals why this discipline is more important now than ever before. Professionals discover new planning tools that have been brought together under a single platform to become the next Information Operations Planning Tool for the U.S. Department of Defence. Additionally, the book defines and identifies new threats and opportunities, and explains why the U.S. is not yet winning the war for the minds.

Author : Andrew Jones,Andy Jones,Gerald L. Kovacich,Perry G. Luzwick
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781420031546

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Global Information Warfare by Andrew Jones,Andy Jones,Gerald L. Kovacich,Perry G. Luzwick Pdf

Like no other book before it, Global Information Warfare illustrates the relationships and interdependencies of business and national objectives, of companies and countries, and of their dependence on advances in technology. This book sheds light on the "Achilles heel" that these dependencies on advanced computing and information technologies creat

Author : Clay Wilson
Publisher : Silverwood Institute
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422395898

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Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, and Cyberwar by Clay Wilson Pdf

Author : Zalmay Khalilzad,John P. White
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780833026637

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Strategic Appraisal by Zalmay Khalilzad,John P. White Pdf

Advances in information technology have led us to rely on easy communication and readily available information--both in our personal lives and in the life of our nation. For the most part, we have rightly welcomed these changes. But information that is readily available is available to friend and foe alike; a system that relies on communication can become useless if its ability to communicate is interfered with or destroyed. Because this reliance is so general, attacks on the information infrastructure can have widespread effects, both for the military and for society. And such attacks can come from a variety of sources, some difficult or impossible to identify. This, the third volume in the Strategic Appraisal series, draws on the expertise of researchers from across RAND to explore the opportunities and vulnerabilities inherent in the increasing reliance on information technology, looking both at its usefulness to the warrior and the need to protect its usefulness for everyone. The Strategic Appraisal series is intended to review, for a broad audience, issues bearing on national security and defense planning.

Author : Mike Chapple,David Seidl
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781284225440

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Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World by Mike Chapple,David Seidl Pdf

Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World puts students on the real-world battlefield of cyberspace! It reviews the role that cyberwarfare plays in modern military operations–operations in which it has become almost impossible to separate cyberwarfare from traditional warfare.

Author : Edwin Leigh Armistead
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781612343495

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Information Warfare by Edwin Leigh Armistead Pdf

In Leigh Armistead's second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today. First, leaders must better understand the informational element of national power, and second, their sole focus on technology must expand to include IO's physical interconnectivity, content, and cognitive dimensions. Finally the authors urge the United States to use its enormous IO advantage to deal with complex national security issues beyond the Department of Defense, for example, in swaying global opinion and influencing other populations. Armistead and his colleagues set aside the hype and conjecture concerning IO, because its real potential is more powerful and comprehensive than currently appreciated. In a straightforward format they take practitioners on the path toward a smart and effective way of waging IO. While the original claims of "bloodless" wars or of computer hackers plunging North America into a new "dark age" of constant electric grid collapses quickly raised awareness of new threats and capabilities in the Information Age, these scenarios strain credulity and hamper our understanding of those threats and capabilities. This volume corrects this situation, grounding IO in the real world, and concentrates on its actual challenges, capabilities, and accomplishments. Information Warfare will be an indispensable guide and reference work for professionals and students in the fields of national security.

Author : Leigh Armistead
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Information warfare
ISBN : 1574886983

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Information Operations by Leigh Armistead Pdf

Explains the critical importance of information operations in future conflict

Author : Norman M. Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1935886606

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(INFO1) the Information Operations & Capabilities SMARTbook by Norman M. Wade Pdf

Over the past two decades, information operations (IO) has gone through a number of doctrinal evolutions, explained, in part, by the rapidly changing nature of information, its flow, processing, dissemination, impact and, in particular, its military employment. INFO1: The Information Operations & Capabilities SMARTbook examines the most current doctrinal references available and charts a path to emerging doctrine on information operations.

Author : Alan D. Campen,Douglas H. Dearth
Publisher : Afcea International Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Command and control systems
ISBN : 0916159299

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Cyberwar 3.0 by Alan D. Campen,Douglas H. Dearth Pdf

Author : Paulo Shakarian,Jana Shakarian,Andrew Ruef
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780124079267

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Introduction to Cyber-Warfare by Paulo Shakarian,Jana Shakarian,Andrew Ruef Pdf

Introduction to Cyber-Warfare: A Multidisciplinary Approach, written by experts on the front lines, gives you an insider's look into the world of cyber-warfare through the use of recent case studies. The book examines the issues related to cyber warfare not only from a computer science perspective but from military, sociological, and scientific perspectives as well. You'll learn how cyber-warfare has been performed in the past as well as why various actors rely on this new means of warfare and what steps can be taken to prevent it. Provides a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber-warfare, analyzing the information technology, military, policy, social, and scientific issues that are in play Presents detailed case studies of cyber-attack including inter-state cyber-conflict (Russia-Estonia), cyber-attack as an element of an information operations strategy (Israel-Hezbollah,) and cyber-attack as a tool against dissidents within a state (Russia, Iran) Explores cyber-attack conducted by large, powerful, non-state hacking organizations such as Anonymous and LulzSec Covers cyber-attacks directed against infrastructure, such as water treatment plants and power-grids, with a detailed account of Stuxent

Author : Mark D Vertuli Editor,Mark Vertuli,Bradley Loudon,Bradley S Loudon Editor
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727846923

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Perceptions Are Reality by Mark D Vertuli Editor,Mark Vertuli,Bradley Loudon,Bradley S Loudon Editor Pdf

Volume 7, Perceptions Are Reality: Historical Case Studies of Information Operations in Large-Scale Combat Operations, is a collection of ten historical case studies from World War II through the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Ukraine. The eleventh and final chapter looks forward and explores the implications of the future information environment across the range of military operations during both competition and conflict. The case studies illustrate how militaries and subnational elements use information to gain a position of relative advantage during large-scale combat. The intent of this volume is to employ history to stimulate discussion and analysis of the implications of information operations in future LSCO by exploring past actions, recognizing and understanding successes and failures, and offering some lessons learned from each author's perspective.