Samenvatting

From Spring 1998 till Autumn 1999 the German and the Netherlands Ministeries of Defence tasked the Amt für Studien und Übungen der Bunderwehr at Waldbröl, GE, assisted by he IAGB (GE), the Royal Military Academie of The Netherlands and the TNO Physics and Electronics Laborotary of The Netherlands, to conduct a study which would form the nucleus paper as to assist the MOD's of both nations to identify the problems and possibilities of Information Operations (Info Ops). The study was conducted to define the basic elements of Info Ops and what its implications would be. This article is mainly an excerpt from the chapters of the full study report, to which the author was one of the contributors.