Information Warfare

Last update: 16 October 2001

This page is devoted to information warfare, which encompasses political, industrial and infrastructure targets. There is a thin line between some aspects of information warfare and general security; however, other elements of information warfare are solely in the domain of psychology, politics and diplomacy.

We also have pages on specific security topics as follow:

For other IT-related topics please see our map of sites that we maintain. We would be pleased to answer any questions, respond to comments or try to fulfill requests.

Information Warfare Papers

Cyber Attacks on the War Against Terrorism
Presentation on Information Security and Warfare (MS Word Format)
Chaos on the Electonic Superhighway: Information Warfare Complete book in Acrobat format
Cyber Terrorism and Private Corporations: New Threat Models and Risk Implications Whitepaper in Acrobat format
Measuring Industrial Power in the Post-Industrial Age: An Analyst's Handbook Whitepaper in Acrobat format
Strategic Information Warfare Whitepaper in Acrobat format
Networks, Netwar and Information Age Terrorism Whitepaper in Acrobat format
Understanding Information Age Warfare Whitepaper in Acrobat format
Unrestricted Warfare Whitepaper in Acrobat format. Paper contains selections are taken from Unrestricted Warfare, a book published in China in February 1999 which proposes tactics for developing countries, in particular China, to compensate for their military inferiority vis-à-vis the United States during a high-tech war.
Economic Espionage: An Information Warfare Perspective Whitepaper in Microsoft Word format. See also: accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
Information Warfare Study Whitepaper in Microsoft Word format. Contains main document and two appendices. Prepared by SAIC.

Information Warfare Links

Countering the New Terrorism
Toward an American Iformation Strategy
Demography and Security: Proceedings of a Workshop, Paris, France, November 2000
The Security Dynamics of Demographic Factors
Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare
Information Warfare Site
Information Operations and Information Warfare
Information Warfare Portal
Information Warfare Page sponsored by Project on Defense Alternatives
Bibliography of Information Warfare and Infrastructure Vulnerability Documents
Defensive Information Warfare
The Mesh and the Net Speculations on Armed Conflict In an Age of Free Silicon
Collection of Information Assurance and Information Warfare Papers
Materials and Presentations from a course on Information Warfare
Collected whitepapers from OSS Net
Jane's International Security and Jane's Pages on Business Impact

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