Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face Of War

Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face Of War
by Roger C. Molander

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Foreign Affairs
Information warfare remains a nebulous subject, but this monograph offers one of the most interesting and revealing ways of thinking about it. . . . A short but comprehensive discussion of the central issues in information warfare, particularly defense against attacks on the myriad information systems that keep American society running, is followed by an ingenious day after exercise that illustrates and amplifies these problems. In three partsthe day of an information attack, the day after, and finally the day beforeparticipants can work their way through the decisionmaking problems of information warfare. The exercise, which has been tested with many government and private groups, is a brilliant device for exploring a problem bound to become more salient.

Academic Library Book Review
An excellent overview of the subject . . . Highly recommended for a variety of subject areas, particularly political science and computer science.

Technology and Society
Strategic Information Warfare illuminates a challenging and often obscure method for examining policy options. Any student of government or industrial decision making would be well advised to buy this book. Grade: 92%

Computing Reviews
This book terrified me...authors are right. Strategic information warfare is possible and probable. I applaud that this research was done.

Technology and Society
Any student of government or industrial decision making would be well advised to buy this book.

Foreign Affairs
Information warfare remains a nebulous subject...this monograph offers one of the most interesting and revealing ways of thinking about it.

Academic Library Book Review
An excellent overview of the subject. Highly recommended for a variety of subject areas, particularly political science and computer science.

Comparative Strategy
The great value of such exercises lies in raising the consciousness of decision-makers about problems likely to emerge...

Book Description
Discusses the potential vulnerability of the U.S. defense and civilian information infrastructure.

From the Publisher
This report summarizes research performed by RAND for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence). The objective of this effort was to garner perspectives on a broad range of potential national security issues related to the evolving concept of information warfare, with a particular emphasis on the defensive aspects of what is characterized in the report as "strategic information warfare." The study was undertaken in recognition that futureU.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing rapid evolution of cyberspace-the global information infrastructure and in this context by the growing dependence of the U.S. military and other national institutions and infrastructures on potentially vulnerable elements of the U.S. national information infrastructure.This report should be of special interest to those who are exploring the effect of the information revolution on warfare. It should also be of interest to those segments of the U.S. and broader international security community that are concerned with the post-cold war evolution of military and national security strategy, especially strategy changes driven wholly or in part by the evolution of, and possible revolutions in, technology.The research reported here was accomplished within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies. It builds on an earlier and ongoing body of research within that center on the national security implications of the information revolution.

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