The global technological evolution in the field of information has changed the world. Information now not only integrates most elements of modern life, including the civil community and the military world, but also accelerates all processes. An operational shift of focus towards a systems approach to …

The author explores the international legal rights for states to conduct Information Operations during peacetime and discusses the appropriateness of applying the law of armed conflict to Information Operations during armed conflicts

In the ongoing discussion on information warfare, perception is a central element and a key factor for success. The author discusses in his article if the main object of warfare is the information or the perception. He assumes that something that we could call a perception warfare concept could look …

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 …