It is widely accepted that the application of new information technologies has a significant impact on today's warfare and crisis management and that this impact will only grow in the near future. This article examines several advantages and disadvantages of these technological developments with regard …

Paper that discusses both military and civil aspects of Information Assurance. It provides the reader with an overview of the clear and present threats from cyberspace on the Armed Forces and society as a whole. A cyber attack taxonomy ordered both by hacking method and reason of attack is presented. …

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 …

Just like other countries, Austria is confronted with the increasing dynamics of the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Both the public sector, including defence, and the private sector are depending on ICT. When discussing conflict scenario's, one has to discern international …

There are both opportunities and constraints regarding information operations in Africa.The specific context of each African country may differ. However, in general, the concentration of wealth and power in a ruler network in the capital creates opportunities for control-and-command warfare. Factions …

The contemporaneous viewing of Global TV (GTV) during the recent conflict in Kosovo demonstrated that the Milosevic government used 'SoftWar' tactics to attempt to counter balance US/NATO in the global mil-pol regime. The resultant effects upon the bodies politic of the NATO nations may well have helped …

In a democratic state, such as Switzerland, censorship of the media is unthinkable. The Swiss government decided to shape an "Informations Regiment' to act if circumstances would disturb the normal activities of press, radio and television. This paper describes the history, task and organization of this …

This paper takes Australia as a case study and asks specifically where, how, and why Australia's critical infrastructure might be at risk. By examining the core elements of the National Information Infrastructure (NII), such as power distributions systems, telecommunications and financial networks, it …

The thesis of this essay is that asking whether the conduct of Information Warfare is like the conduct of war described in the Warring States era in ancient China by Sun-Tzu's Art of War can provide strategic insight. It is not asserted, however, that Info War equals Sun-Tzu's Art of War. This essays …

All Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems have vulnerabilities. Weakness in these systems are introduced either during the specification, implementation or operational phase. Leaving aside these introduced vulnerabilities are intentional, the fact remains that these factors make information …