Deconstructing
Information Warfare
URL: <deconstructing-infowar.info>
Presentation citation:
K. A. Taipale, "Deconstructing Information Warfare," Presentation to the Committee on Policy Consequences and Legal/Ethical Implications of Offensive Information Warfare of The National Academies, Wash., DC (Oct. 30, 2006) available at http://deconstructing-infowar.info/.
DOWNLOAD: [presentation slides] (296 KB PDF)
Presented as part of the Global Information Society Project Program on Information and Warfare
See related material:
K. A. Taipale, Seeking Symmetry on the Information Front: Confronting Global Jihad on the Internet, Nat'l Strategy F. Rev., Vol. XVI (Summer 2007).
K. A. Taipale, Seeking Symmetry in Fourth Generation Warfare: Information Operations in the War of Ideas, in Challenges in the Struggle Against Violent Extremism: Winning the War of Ideas (INSCT-Bantle, forthcoming 2008).
[See related presentation: "Seeking Symmetry in Fourth Generation Warfare: Information Operations in the War of Ideas," March 29-30, 2006. [presentation slides] (415 KB PDF)]
K. A. Taipale, "Information as Warfare: Disrupting Terrorist Networks" presented at the Yale Information Society Project, "Global Flow of Information" Conference, Yale Law School (Apr. 1-3, 2005). [abstract]
Other publications.
See also Johannis Kuhn, "In Cyberwar There Are No Rules," interview with Kim Taipale in Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Sept. 20, 2007).
Related reference material:
National Security Act of 1947 (as amended)
National Security Council Documents:
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006)
National Security Strategy of the United States (2006)
9/11 Five Years Later: Successes and Challenges (2006)
National Security Council Documents:
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006)
National Security Strategy of the United States (2006)
9/11 Five Years Later: Successes and Challenges (2006)
US Department of Defense Documents:
Information Operations Roadmap (DOD 2003) (HTML) Information Operations (JP 3-13 2006) (JEL)
Joint Doctrine for Electronic Warfare (JP 3-51.1) (2007)
Joint Doctrine for PSYOPS (JP 3-53 2003) (JEL)
Joint Doctrine for Public Affairs (JP 3-61 2005) (JEL)
Joint Doctrine for Civil Affairs (JP 3-57.1 2003) (JEL)
Joint Doctrine for Military Deception (JP 3-13.4) (2006)
Quadrennial Defense Review (2006) (QDR)
DoD S-3600.1, Information Operations (IO) (1996)
DoD 5240.1-R, Procedures Governing the Activities of DOD Intelligence Components that Affect United
States Persons (1982)
DoD 8500.1, Information Assurance (2002)
DoD O-8530.1, Computer Network Defense (CND) (2001)
CJCS 3210.01A, Joint Information Operations Policy (1998)
CJCS 6510.01D, Information Assurance (IA) and Computer Network Defense (CND) (2004)
USAF Policy Doc. 10-7 Information Operations (2006)
POTUS Directives:
Executive Order 12,333
NSDD 77 Public Diplomacy (1983)
PDD 68 International Public Information (1999) (C)
NSPD 16 Guidelines for Offensive Cyber-Warfare (2002) (C)
Background Reading:
Winn Schwartau, INFORMATION WARFARE (1996) (ISBN:1560251328).
Dorothy Denning, INFORMATION WARFARE AND SECURITY (Addison-Wesley 1998) (ISBN:0201433036).
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, NETWORKS AND NETWARS: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (RAND 2001) (ISBN:0833030302).
Gregory J. Rattray, STRATEGIC WARFARE IN CYBERSPACE (MIT Press 2001) (ISBN:0262182092).
Anthony H. Cordesman, CYBER-THREATS, INFORMATION WARFARE, AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: DEFENDING THE US HOMELAND (2002) (ISBN:0275974235).
Leigh Armistead, INFORMATION OPERATIONS (Jt. Forces Staff College and the NSA 2004) (ISBN:1574886991).
Other Links:
U.S. Air Force
Cyberspace and Information Operations Study Center:
IO Research and Theory
OTHER INFORMATION WARFARE SITES
IWS - The Information Warfare Site
[www.iwar.org.uk]
The Information Warfare Monitor
[www.infowar-monitor.net]
Information Warfare, I-War, IW, C4I, Cyberwar
[www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html]
Federation of American Scientists - IW Resources
[www.fas.org/irp/wwwinfo.html]
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