Samenvatting

The thesis of this article is that armed forces and their national command authorities have much to learn about effectively integrating information operations into both war and anti-war security operations. Worse, at the present rate of learning the Western democracies may be surrendering intellectual leadership and ultimately operational leadership to those States, hackers, and criminals who more quickly adapt these new tools. The author doesn't intent this to be the Third Wave Information Age equivalent of saber-rattling. Rather, it is a call to action.