Redefining Information Warfare Boundaries for an Army in a Wireless World.

摘要

Information warfare is not currently defined in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or U.S. Army doctrine, but it is a term found in past doctrine. What is in today s DoD lexicon is the term information environment, the aggregate of individuals, organizations, and systems that collect, process, disseminate, or act on information (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2010b). Joint doctrine (e.g., JP 3-13.1) makes clear that there is an electromagnetic spectrum portion of the information environment (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2007, p. vii). Thus, wired and wireless technology fit in this landscape. As a term, information warfare, or IW, remains in use worldwide, in the militaries of other countries as well as in some of the U.S. military services. The Navy now has an IW officer position, which it advertises as involving attacking, defending and exploiting networks to capitalize on vulnerabilities in the information environment.