Information operations
'Information Operations' can only be understood in the broader context of change and continuity. 'Cyberspace' is, like land, sea, air and space, a dimension in which war can be waged. Where defence is a necessity while attack is a possibility. There is a close relationship between 'Information Based …
1999-01-01AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Information operations, the NATO perspective
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 …
1999AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Perception warfare
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 …
1999AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Mars chuckles and Athena sighs in frustration
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 …
1999AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
A 'Softwar' view of the Kososvo conflict
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 …
1999AlgemeenBoekdeel
Information warfare
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 …
1999AlgemeenBoekdeel
Intervention in the former Yugoslavia. The international framework
This article aims at clarifying the dynamics of foreign intervention in a situation that combines civil war with ethnic warfare. A central place is reserved for external players, such as the European Community (later: Union), the United Nations, NATO, the United States and others. What goals did they …
1997AlgemeenBoekdeel