Terrorist Use of Information Operations

摘要

It is our contention that many terrorist organizations have a profound understanding of the information environment and have the ability to manipulate information to achieve their objectives, inherently viewing operations through an IO lens. To provide insight into how terrorist organizations use Information Operations, to exploit the information environment, we evaluate tactical and strategic examples of terrorist operations using an IO lens based on DoD IO doctrine. This analysis illustrates that terrorists use IO, and that terrorist organizations are naturally linked to the information environment by their nature.