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    Information Warfare: The Strategic Use of Data in Military Operations
    Information Warfare: The Strategic Use of Data in Military Operations
    Information Warfare: The Strategic Use of Data in Military Operations
    Ebook115 pages1 hourMilitary Science

    Information Warfare: The Strategic Use of Data in Military Operations

    By Fouad Sabry

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    What is Information Warfare


    Information warfare (IW) is the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. It is different from cyberwarfare that attacks computers, software, and command control systems. Information warfare is the manipulation of information trusted by a target without the target's awareness so that the target will make decisions against their interest but in the interest of the one conducting information warfare. As a result, it is not clear when information warfare begins, ends, and how strong or destructive it is.


    How you will benefit


    (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:


    Chapter 1: Information warfare


    Chapter 2: Electromagnetic warfare


    Chapter 3: Cyberterrorism


    Chapter 4: Cyberwarfare


    Chapter 5: Cyber force


    Chapter 6: Cyberwarfare by Russia


    Chapter 7: United States Cyber Command


    Chapter 8: Cyberwarfare in the United States


    Chapter 9: Cyberwarfare by China


    Chapter 10: Chinese information operations and information warfare


    (II) Answering the public top questions about information warfare.


    Who this book is for


    Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Information Warfare.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOne Billion Knowledgeable
    Release dateMay 29, 2024
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      Information Warfare - Fouad Sabry

      Chapter 1: Information warfare

      Information warfare (IW) is a concept that involves the use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in the battlespace in order to gain a competitive advantage over an adversary (as opposed to cyberwarfare, which targets computers, software, and command control systems). Without the target's knowledge, information warfare involves manipulating information that they would normally trust in order to influence them to take actions that are not in their best interests but rather that of the information warfare practitioner.

      As a result, the areas of electronic warfare, cyberwarfare, information assurance, and computer network operations, attack, and defense frequently come under the focus of the US military.

      The majority of the rest of the world refers to information use in a much broader sense under the heading of Information Operations, which emphasizes the more human-related aspects of information use, including (among many others) social network analysis, decision analysis, and the human aspects of command and control, while still utilizing technology.

      The use of information to achieve our national objectives is how information war has been defined.

      Various tactics can be used in information warfare:

      It is possible to block radio, television, and internet transmissions.

      Transmissions on television, the internet, and radio can be taken over and used in a disinformation campaign.

      Networks for logistics can be disabled.

      Enemy communications networks can be shut down or spoof, especially in today's world of online social communities.

      It is possible to disrupt stock market transactions electronically, by leaking important information, or by spreading misinformation.

      the use of webcams, drones, and other types of surveillance equipment.

      Communication management

      Synthetic media

      Social media and other online content creation tools can be used strategically to manipulate public opinion. the latter referencing its use in information warfare.

      The U.S. Air Force frequently risks its planes and aircrews in order to attack strategic enemy communications targets, therefore a safer option may be to remotely disable such sites using software and other tools. Furthermore, by electronically deactivating such networks rather than explosively, it is possible to immediately reactivate them once the enemy territory has been taken. Similar to this, counter-information warfare units are used to prevent the enemy from having such a capability. In the Gulf War, these methods were first employed against Iraq's communications networks.

      Dutch hackers allegedly stole details regarding American army movements from Defense Department computers during the Gulf War and tried to sell it to Iraqis, who rejected it as a scam.

      A new revolution in military affairs has resulted from the development of more sophisticated and autonomous ICTs. This revolution covers how nations employ ICTs to fight wars with their enemies on actual battlefields as well as in cyberspace. The three most pervasive revolutions in military affairs are communication management, autonomous robotics, and cyberattacks.

      Network-centric warfare and C4ISR, or integrated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, are the two main weapons used in cyberspace. Additionally, cyberattacks carried out by one country against another have the overarching objective of achieving information dominance over the attacked party, which includes impeding or denying the targeted party's capacity for information gathering and dissemination. A real-world incident that exemplified the risky potential of cyberattacks occurred in 2007, when an Israeli airstrike destroyed a purported nuclear reactor in Syria that was being built through cooperation between Syria and North Korea. The strike was also accompanied by a cyberattack on Syria's air defenses, which prevented them from seeing the attack on the nuclear reactor and ultimately let it to happen (New York Times 2014). A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, which is used to obstruct networks or websites until they lose their core operation, is an example of a simpler cyberattack on a nation. As mentioned, cyberattacks affect the entire population of the nation that has been attacked, not simply the military party. Civilian populations may suffer during times of war when more components of daily life are incorporated into networks in cyberspace. For instance, if one country decided to target the power grid servers of another country in a particular region to interfere with communications, citizens and businesses there would also have to contend with power shortages, which might also cause economic disruptions.

      Moreover, Physical ICTs have also been integrated into the most recent military affairs revolution by deploying new technologies, more self-sufficient robots (i.e.

      - unmanned drones) into the field of war to perform tasks like guarding borders and striking ground targets.

      Many of the unmanned drones are flown by people from far-off places, however, a some of the more sophisticated robots, like the X-47B from Northrop Grumman, are able to make independent decisions.

      Despite operating the drones from distant places, Some drone pilots still experience the stressors of more conventional warfare.

      Apparently, NPR, a study performed by the Pentagon in 2011 found that 29% of drone pilots are burned out and undergo high levels of stress.

      Furthermore, About 17% of the drone pilots who participated in the study were classified as clinically upset, and several of those pilots displayed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

      By permitting Russian communications to link to and communicate with Ukrainian networks in 2022, Ukrainian forces were able to take advantage of gaps in Russian communications. After then, Ukrainian forces listen in on the dialogue and stop Russian communications at a vital point.

      Information warfare has been used to describe Russian meddling in foreign elections, most notably the meddling in the 2016 US elections.

      Information warfare has greatly improved the kinds of attacks that a government can launch, but it has also sparked debate over the moral and legal gray areas that surround this particularly novel form of conflict. Moral academics have traditionally used the just war theory to evaluate wars. Since the idea is founded on the conventional understanding of war, it fails when applied to information warfare. Comparing information warfare to conventional warfare, there are three major problems:

      In comparison to the risk associated with a party or nation launching a traditional attack, the risk associated with launching a cyberattack is significantly smaller. This enables governments and prospective terrorist or criminal groups to carry out these strikes more regularly than they might under more conventional military circumstances.

      A very broad spectrum of devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks because information communication

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