Principles and Practices of Information Warfare

Author: Waltz
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Publish Date: 2004-01-20
Features: In today's world, the forms of cooperation, competition, conflict, and war are changing. Just as information technology is altering the ways we observe the world, understand issues, formulate policies, and exchange ideas, these changes are having a profound impact on all aspects of personal security, corporate security, and national security. This book systematically introduces how information technology is transforming the means of conflict and war. As information technology is reshaping the methods by which people observe the world, understand issues, formulate policies, and exchange ideas, these changes are exerting a significant influence on all facets of personal security, corporate security, and national security. Consequently, there arises a widespread demand for information, which in military operations manifests as an endless pursuit of knowledge and intelligence. Simultaneously, a modern concept emerges: that soldiers engaged in combat must also be information warriors, capable of understanding the value of information as knowledge, objectives, and weapons, and knowing how to quantify, evaluate, and apply intangible data. This book systematically explores how information technology is changing the means of conflict and war, delves into information warfare operations by integrating core technologies currently in use and emerging technologies under development, and clearly elucidates the technical foundations of this emerging field. The content of the book is not only applicable to policymakers, commanders, and systems engineers who translate policies and concepts into system design and implementation but also to soldiers engaged in combat.