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Defense Tech: It's All Info Ops, All The Time

The Defense Department has issued a new publication outlining joint doctrine on the use of "information operations," according to Secrecy News. Which might make you think the Pentagon has some new rules for keeping computers safe. But Information operations is used for a wide range of military operations designed "to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own," according to the document, officially known as Joint Publication 3-13.

The doctrine document follows the 2003 publication of a DOD "Information Operations Roadmap", which outlined plans for developing capabilities needed to achieve information dominance. Microwave blasts, propaganda campaigns, radio jams, and hack attacks are all part of the plan. In fact, the range of tactics that are part of "information operations" is so wide that the term risks confusing the uninitiated. So here’s a primer.

posted by Fergie @ 4/05/2006 08:05:00 AM