Disclaimer The conclusions and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author cultivated in the freedom of expression academic environment of Air University They do not re ect the official position of the US Government Department of Defense the United States Air Force or the Air University A THEORY OF INFORMATION WARFARE art A Preparing For 2020 Annoyed rel COL RICHARD SZAFRANSKI mm THE PROFESSION Of arms in a democracy is not exempt from oversight or from consideration Of just conduct even in warfare Where the will of the people the moral high ground and the technological high ground are the same the profession will remain a useful and lofty one If however the moral high ground is lost a domino effect occurs public support is lost the technological high ground is lost and the armed forces are lost It is within this framework that this article postulates a theory of information warfare1 within the larger context of warfare and proposes ways to wage information warfare at the strategic and operational levels The tools tO wage information warfare are at hand and because information weapons are such powerful weapons both combatants and noncombatants need to be protected against them The vulnerability to information warfare is universal The decisions to pursue the development of information weapons or to prosecute information warfare are governmental decisions These decisions need to be made consciously and deliberately and with an understanding Of the moral and ethical risks of information warfare After assessing all the risks and deciding to create information weapons or engage in information warfare the decision makers should rst have an understanding of these weapons and a weapon employment theory before such warfare starts rather than after the weapons are deployed or have already been employed Information Infomation as used here means the content or meaning Of a message 2 An aim of warfare always has been to affect the enemy's information systems In the broadest sense information systems encompass every means by which an adversary arrives at knowledge or beliefs A narrower View maintains that information systems are the means by which an adversary exercises control over and direction of elded forces Taken together information systems are a comprehensive set of the knowledge beliefs and the decision-making processes and systems of the adversary The outcome sought by information attacks at every level is for the enemy to receive suf cient messages that convince him to stop ghting Why would an adversary stop ghting There are a number of possibilities an inab ity to control elded forces demoralization the knowledge or belief that combat power has been annihilated or an awareness that the prospects of not ghting are superior to the prospects of continuing the ght These stop- ghting messages might be as varied in content or meaning as Cannae has ruined you or Submit to the Tartar or die or Your counterattack has failed or even Your own people do not support you in warfare that kills babies Although the methods Of communicating the stop- ghting 19970730 102 WW New Text Document txt Today Datez24 July 1997 This paper was downloaded from the Internet Distribution Statement A University Maxwell Air Force Base US Air Force message have changed over the years the meaning of the message itself remains fairly constant stop ghting As social institutions evolved from rst-wave agrarian societies to second-wave industrial states information systems evolved and decision-making processes became more complex Mercantile organizations arose within or alongside the dominant political structures adding elements of greater complexity as the scope of their activities enlarged Knowledge networks of knowledge workers the newest form of institutional structure emerged and their numbers increased in tandem with the availability of the tools of information technology As information technology advanced information systems allowed knowledge or know-how to make all the other institutional forms more effective 3 As societal institutions evolved the ways in which societies fought evolved also The terrorizing drums banners and gongs of Sun Tzu's warfare aided by information technology became the sophisticated operations of modern warfare The aim of warfare moved from or could move from exhaustion to annihilation to control according to John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt 4 Information technology may now have evolved to the point where control can be imposed with little physical violence or bloodshed On the surface this appears to be a good thing At its center it may be a dangerous thing Closer scrutiny should reveal which of these is the case What Warfare Is Warfare is the set of all lethal and nonlethal activities undertaken to subdue the hostile will of an adversary or enemy In this sense warfare is not synonymous with war 5 Warfare does not require a declaration of war nor does it require existence of a condition widely recognized as a state of war Warfare can be undertaken by or against state-controlled state-sponsored or nonstate groups Warfare is hostile activity directed against an adversary or enemy The aim of warfare is not necessarily to kill the enemy The aim of warfare is to merely subdue the enemy In fact the acme of skill is to subdue an adversary without killing him6 The adversary is subdued when he behaves in ways that are coincident with the ways in which we_the aggressor or the defender_intend for him to behave 7 In aiming to subdue hostile will we must have a clear understanding of the speci c nonhostile behaviors we intend to compel or the hostile ones we want to prevent When the security forces of a state engage an enemy state in warfare the government determines the speci c nonhostile behaviors sought from the adversary When other groups _guerr las gangs c1ans_engage in warfare the group leader decides the speci c nonhostile behaviors sought In both state and nonstate warfare forms the decisions made by group leaders de ne the aims the methods and the desired postcon ict conditions of the warfare Even so it is a ction albeit a common and convenient one to assert that states or groups wage warfare The decision to engage in warfare including the decision to terminate warfare is made by leaders in the state or group Likewise it is the hostile will of enemy leaders that must be subdued to be successful in warfare 8 Group members or the citizens of states may in uence the leaders decisions but it is the hostile will of leadership that must be subdued If the mandate of heaven passes from the leader to other group members_successor leaders or the population at large_the hostile will of these new leaders must be subdued Information warfare can help withdraw the mandate of heaven from the hands of adversary leaders The great discovery that launched the information age was awareness that everything in the external world could be reduced to combinations of zeroes and ones These combinations could be transmitted electronically as data and recombined upon receipt to form the basis of information According to the seminal work on control warfare by Arquilla and Ronfeldt information is more than the content or meaning of a message Rather information is any difference that makes a difference 9 Information warfare is a form of conflict that attacks information systems directly as a means to attack adversary knowledge or beliefs Information warfare can be prosecuted as a component of a larger and more comprehensive set of hostile activities_a netwar or cyberwar_or it can be undertaken as the sole form of hostile activity 10 Most weapons_a word used to describe the lethal and nonlethal tools of warfare_only have high utility against external adversaries While most often employed against external adversaries many of the weapons of information warfare are equally well suited for employment against internal constituencies For example a state or group would not normally use guns and bombs against its own members however the weapons of information warfare can be used have been used and very likely will be used against both external and internal adversaries Information warfare in the Third Reich for example was Information warfare is hostile activity directed against any part of the knowledge and belief systems of an adversary The adversary is anyone uncooperative with the aims of the leader Externally this is the agreed-upon enemy or the not us Internally the adversary might be the traitor the faint of heart or the fellow traveler_anyone who opposes or is insuf ciently cooperative with the leader who controls the means of information warfare If the intemal members of a group are insuf ciently supportive of the aims of the leader during warfare intemal information warfare including such things as propaganda deception character assassination rumors and lies can be used in attempts to make them more supportive of the aims of leadership Warfare and Its Relation to What We Know or Believe Whether directly employed against an external adversary or intemal constituencies information warfare has the ultimate aim of using information weapons to affect in uence manipulate attack the knowledge and belief systems of some external adversary It is useful in warfare for example for an external adversary to know or at least believe that the opposing state or group is united against him or her Information warfare simultaneously employed to make internal constituencies cooperative and external adversaries believe its enemy is a united front is used to help seat that awareness in the knowledge and beliefs residing in the mind of adversary leadership The Fragility of Knowledge and Beliefs Knowledge systems are those systems organized and operated to sense or observe veri able phenomenological indicators or designators translate these indicators into perceived realities and use these perceptions to make decisions and direct actions 11 Sensing that the plate is hot one releases it Observing that one's expenditures exceed income one curbs spending Our sensing and observing systems allow us to know We decide and act based on our knowledge but not on knowledge alone Knowledge systems are organized according to scienti c principles and sustained by the scienti c method That is knowledge systems are organized to collect empirical data by sensing or observation to formulate hypotheses to conduct tests that validate or invalidate the hypotheses and to use these ndings as the basis for further action Belief systems are those implicit or explicit orientations both to empirical data in the form of veri able perceptions and to other data or awareness nightmares phobias neuroses and all the other creatures living in the fertile swamp of the subconscious the collective unconscious or Jung's unconscious that are not veri able or at least are less easily veri able 13 According to John Boyd the process or act of orientation what Boyd calls the Big in the OODA loop also is in uenced by genetic heritage and cultural traditions 14 Thus the orientation of American leaders is different than the orientation of say Japanese or Chinese leaders The orientation of capitalists and their leaders is different than the orientation of socialists and their leaders Unlike knowledge systems belief systems are highly individualized Why They include the stuff of the unconscious and subconscious powerful elements of which others and even the bearer may be unaware Even though the target of information warfare is the mind of enemy leadership it is glib reductionism to think of the enemy as being of one min The enemy is really many individual enemies many minds This only complicates the problem For example if the enemy is dispersed separate minds can be attacked separately using the fact of isolation to the attacker's advantage If the enemy is concentrated and over half the people on the planet will live in metropolitan complexes by the year 2020 and will be accessible in large numbers by way of information technology the attack can be prosecuted against large groups Even so the aim of warfare is to subdue the hostile will of leaders and decision makers This can be done directly by attacks aimed at in uencing or manipulating the leader's knowledge or beliefs or indirectly by attacking the knowledge or beliefs of those upon whom the leader depends for action Leaders and decision makers usually are not difficult to identify in any organization hierarchy When an organization applies power or force that organizationmost often assumes hierarchical characteristics Thus the knowledge and beliefs of decision makers are the Achilles' heel of hierarchies Knowledge systems because they are more scienti c are less in uenced by culture and by irrational or nonveri able factors than are belief systems yet both knowledge systems and belief systems are components present in every human decision making system 15 What is known including the methods by which it came to be known can be tested by its relation to something else and determined to be valid or invalid true or false real or unreal What is believed is not subject to all the same tests Even so beliefs are no less compelling than empirically derived knowledge Both knowledge and beliefs affect human decision making Since the aim of warfare is to in uence adversary behavior by in uencing adversary decisions information warfare actions must be directed against both the adversary's knowledge systems and belief systems If an adversary is organized as a coalition of multiple and cooperative centers of gravity many culturally conditioned belief systems may exist within the coalition These may be engaged and defeated in detail The coalition need not be separate states or groups working as an alliance The coalition can be the constituencies within a state or within groups Clausewitz was correct in asserting the potential liabilities associated with allies and coalitions Moreover leaders and decision makers of the coalition provide the most fertile targets for direct or indirect attacks Targeting Epistemology The target system of information warfare can include every element in the epistemology of an adversary Epistemology means the entire organization structure methods and validity of knowledge 17 In layperson's terms it means everything a human organismman individual or a groupmholds to be true or real no matter whether that which is held as true or real was acquired as knowledge or as a belief At the strategic level the aim of a perfect information warfare campaign is to in uence adversary choices and hence adversary behavior without the adversary's awareness that choices and behavior are being in uenced Even though this aim is dif cult to attain it remains the goal of a perfect information warfare campaign at the strategic level A successful although not necessarily perfect information warfare campaign waged at the strategic level will result in adversary decisions and hence actions that consistently mismatch or fail to support the intentions or aims of the adversary leader A successful information warfare campaign waged at the operational level will support strategic objectives by in uencing the adversary's ability to make decisions in a timely or effective manner Said another way the aim of information warfare activities at the operational level is to so complicate or confound the adversary's decision making process that the adversary cannot act or behave in a coordinated or effective way In information warfare the goal is to harmonize the activities taken at the operational level with those taken at the strategic level so that taken altogether the adversary makes decisions that result in actions that consistently support our aims by consistently failing to support the adversary's aims At the strategic level the leaders contemplating an information warfare campaign need to know the answers to at least three questions First what is the relationship of the information warfare campaign to the larger aims of the campaign Second what is it we wish the adversary leaders to know or believe when the information warfare campaign is concluded That is what is the desired epistemological end-state and consequently the success criterion Third what are the best information warfare tools to employ in order to meet the established success criteria That is how will means be related to ends At the operational level the leaders responsible for prosecuting the grand tactics also need the answers to some questions Will there be any withheld targets or prohibited weapons in the information warfare attacks Is the epistemological end-state to be reached all at once everywhere or are there interim states that need to be reached in speci c geographical areas in a speci c sequence or in speci c sectors of information activity The questions of command and signal also need to be addressed Speci cally leaders at the operational level need to know when attacks will be terminated and the means by which the termination order will be communicated These are important questions because information weapons depending on the weapons used may cause collateral damage to the attacker's knowledge and belief systems 18 In the worst case the adversary's response could include counterattacks against friendly information systems that are somehow indistinguishable from collateral damage caused by the information analog of friendly This thought requires some elaboration Warfare is a human social activity 19 The workplace of warriors is society the societies of those engaged in combat and the societies of active and passive spectator groups Because it is a human activitymand one dependent on human action reaction and interaction_the outcomes of some warfare activities may be unpredictable As Grant Hammond notes in Paradoxes of War if the outcomes of a war could be known in advance there would be scant reasons for the loser to fight in the first place 20 Moreover there may be lag times between action and response some outcomes take longer to develop than others Thus the notion that World War II was the outcome of World War I or the peace treaty that terminated combat may very well be true The unpredictability however is not con ned to the consequences of war termination Speci c actions in warfare can have speci c and unpredictable reactions Information attacks_attacks aimed at the knowledge or belief systems of adversaries_can have consequences that are as unpredictable as attacks aimed at the physical destruction of property or combat equipment or those aimed at killing human beings Suf ce it to say that information attacks have stochastic effects and that unless these are considered and evaluated in advance an information attack may not have the effect ultimately desired Worse it may have consequences that are so undesirable that the attacker will me that an attack was made in the rst place The notion of stochastic effects like the notion of collateral damage needs to be considered at both the strategic and operational levels of information warfare The Target Sets of Information Warfare The more dependent the adversary is on information systems for decision making the more vulnerable he is to hostile manipulation of those systems Software viruses only hurt those dependent on software Radio-electronic combat only works against forces reliant on radios or electronics Electromagnetic pulse generators_unless the generator is a nuclear weapon_do not affect human couriers and runners While this suggests that only postindustrial states or groups are highly vulnerable to information warfare the opposite may be the case for two reasons First preindustrial or agrarian societies still have vulnerable epistemological systems Because information warfare can be prosecuted against the adversary's entire epistemologyuboth knowledge systems and belief systems_even preindustrial agrarian or primitive societies are vulnerable to information warfare Second industrial societies and even some advanced industrial societies may acquire much of their telecommunications infrastructure from more advanced or postindustrial societies or groups By way of analogy consider the case of the homeowner and the architect The homeowner may not be aware of aws in his or her residence but the architect is aware Likewise the operator or owner of a telecommunications system designed or built by others may be unaware of important features of which only the designer or manufacturer has knowledge If the architect is not directly subordinate or accountable to the owner then the potential exists for the architect to exploit the hidden features to his own advantage In the warfare of business competition the architect may have the means motive and opportunity to exploit these features to meet the objectives of the rm whether or not the government or the state approves of these actions In the case of advanced societies or groups attacks against telecommunications systems can wreak havoc with an adversary's ability to make effective decisions in warfare Yet one should also appreciate that an apparition in the sky even a natural phenomenon like a solar eclipse can be used to attack the belief systems of a less advanced group Totems and taboos might function equally as well as the targets or the tools of information warfare against a primitive group Thus vuhierability to information warfare is nearly universal the differences being only a matter of degree An Blustration of Complexity Information warfare is a complex notion It is complex because the weapons employed are and always have been as common as words pictures and images even though today these may be communicated or manipulated in uncommon ways It is complex because the attacks are crafted by minds to affect minds In addition it is complex because the attacks can be direct or indirect aimed at internal or external constituencies the only constant being the effect sought The desired effect of information warfare is to in uence and change what the adversary believes or what the adversary knows The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58 provides an example of the complexity The mutiny reportedly was triggered by a rumor that the British were coating ri e cartridges in animal fat 21 Contact with this fat was taboo to the Hindu and Muslim sepoys Indian natives in the British army Even though the cartridge coating was not animal fat and could be subjected to scienti c tests that would result in this knowledge the sepoy believed the substance was animal fat This belief was more compelling to the primitive sepoy than knowledge Thus it was belief not knowledge that in uenced sepoy behavior and triggered a dif cult struggle between the British and the Indians This case is also illustrative of the fact that even though the use of this misinformation was directed against the British leadership the attack was indirect It was the sepoy leaders who started the rumor and in so doing attacked the belief systems of both Hindu and Muslim sepoys to spur them to rebel against their British masters Thus information warfare can be waged both internally and externally by against or between societies or groups of varied technomic capability a combination of advances in technology and the increase of economic wealth 22 When waged against internal constituencies its aim is to use those constituencies to meet the larger aim of warfare subduing the hostile will of an external adversary When information warfare is prosecuted externally the object is to subdue the hostile will of external adversary leaders Vulnerable Sophisticates In states or groups with high technomic capability the target set for information warfare at the strategic level is wonderfully rich telecommunications and telephony 23 space-based sensors communications relay systems automated aids to financial banking and commercial transactions supporting power production and distribution systems cultural systems of all kinds and the whole gamut of hardware and software that constitutes how the adversary knows and what the adversary believes Strategic information systems in states with high technomic capability oftentimes are mirrored by operational level ones of equal complexity All are vulnerable to attack Information warfare need not be deferred until hostility becomes open Adversary leadership will be less likely to ght if it believes one or more of the following that violence is bad or that they will be without allies or that they will face harsh sanctions should ghting erupt or that their industrial base will not support prolonged warfare or that their armed forces are unready Should actual ghting break out attacks at the operational level can harmonize with attacks at the strategic level The target set at the operational level is equally lucrative when the adversary has high technomic capability and relies on automated aids to ght Hierarchical systems are most vulnerable but even networks have control or relay nodes that are susceptible to attack To function effectively networks have hierarchical elements or nodes Often these elements are invisibleuembedded software protocols lters sort instructions and the like 24 That they are more dif cult to attack may not make them immune to attack The higher its technomic capability and the greater the number of its interactions with other groups including internal groups or states the greater the state or group's potential vulnerability to information warfare The vulnerability may increase as network size increases dependence on the information transacted increases or the number or volume of transactions increases Consequently a state or group engaged worldwide may be exposed or vulnerable worldwide If the objective of engagement is a strategic campaign aimed at affecting the knowledge or beliefs of others then those engaged are of course similarly vulnerable Democracies are no less vulnerable than totalitarian regimes although democratic social systems as groups may be somewhat more fault-tolerant By that is meant that democracies promote diversity and diversity increases the tolerance for difference This Willingness to accept diversity and even the bizarre the routine co exis tence of contradictory knowledge and different beliefs among individuals and groups and the constant attempts at manipulation by marketing experts do not reduce the vulnerability of a democracy but they do mitigate the impact of information warfare attacks Said another way many people in democratic nations may be immune to attacks because their knowledge may be limited their belief systems may always be in ux and much information registers only as noise Thus images of televised eroticism may have little effect on many in the United States Yet the same images that almost are mundane in the United States could have dramatic effects if televised in China Iraq or Iran 25 Even though the democracy's social system may be fault-tolerant its technomic control apparatus may be less so Banking finance trade travel and air traf c control are now and increasingly will become more dependent on information technology systems In 1992 the United States invested over $210 billion on information technology about half the level of worldwide investment and the amount invested is expected to grow about 18 percent each year for the next several years 26 As dependence on information systems grows warfare waged by nonstate groups_terrorists religious extremists hostile businesses_against information systems constitutes a real threat The bombing of the World Trade Center whatever other general or speci c objectives it might have had apparently was designed to in ict serious damage on the trading and banking capability of the United States The information warfare component of some future strategic warfare campaign waged by terrorists certainly will not fail to include the power-production facilities and communications systems serving the principal target Simultaneous attacks against widely dispersed nodes could have a strategic effect That is they could affect the knowledge beliefs and the will of leaders A cautionary note because an information warfare campaign at the strategic level aims to subdue hostile will by affecting the knowledge and beliefs of the adversary it cannot discriminate between combatants and noncombatants Because the weapons of information warfare systematically attack the adversary's knowledge and belief systems that which makes us different from other species the likely outcomes of information warfare need to be evaluated consciously before information attacks are prosecuted A successful information warfare campaign interposes a false reality on the human target At the strategic level these targets include both combatants and noncombatants The interposition of a false reality ultimately may be as wrongful and inhumane as the wanton destruction of crops To unhinge a noncombatant from reality especially when the effects cannot be known or controlled may be no less wrongful than to force another into starvation or cannibalism Said another way the principles of just war and just conduct in warfare need to be evaluated whenever strategic information warfare is contemplated Deception and disinformation radio-electronic combat propaganda and the whole gamut of warfare or command and control warfare attacks against enemy combatants at the operational level cannot be said to be wrongful These aim to subdue without ghting or to reduce the amount of violence required Becoming unhinged from reality in combat like death or some other form of suffering is a risk of which combatants are aware and is a possibility that combatants must accept Thus as long as information warfare and weapons are restricted by norms or laws to the operational level of warfare it would appear that they are no more or any less evil than any other weapon The problem remains a twofold one determining the morality of an information warfare campaign waged at the strategic level and restricting the use of information weapons to the operational level The decision to pursue information warfare or develop information weapons is a leadership decision It is a strategic decision in the United States because it is the Congress representing the entire citizenry that links means to ends In the United States such a program if done by the state would be done with money appropriated by the Congress The Congress or its oversight committees will evaluate the morality of information warfare In the wake of this evaluation the Congress may confine these weapons and their use to the operational level of warfare The Congress may also establish safeguards to prevent any such weapons so developed from being used against internal constituencies The legislative branch also may make laws preventing the use of information weapons against non-US noncombatants and internal constituencies As out-sourcing and contracting-out initiatives increase the Congress also can be expected to act to prevent some commercial enterprise from developing such weapons Have not news stories and expos s produced by commercial news enterprises proven to be contrived aimed at in uencing our knowledge and beliefs Have not subliminal messages been used in the past in attempts to in uence our purchasing behavior Have not hackers entered and affected_or infected_databases already We need to consider that there may be only a slim difference between a hacker and a terrorist in the information age This is especially so if the hacker can attack things like nance credit ratings college transcripts or other databases upon which technomic institutions depend The political leaders in the United States can be expected to consider the morality of information weapons and information warfare no matter which group develops the weapons or engages in the warfare and to regulate their use accordingly The Congress very likely will conclude that the employment of information weapons at the operational level is useful and necessary but that employment against noncombatants or their employment at the strategic level is wrong The United States should expect that its information systems are vulnerable to attack It should further expect that attacks when they come may come in advance of any formal declaration of hostile intent by an adversary state When they come the attacks will be prosecuted against both knowledge systems and belief systems aimed at in uencing leadership choices The knowledge and beliefs of leaders will be attacked both directly and indirectly Noncombatants those upon whom leaders depend for support and action will be targets This is what we have to look forward to in 2020 or sooner Notes 1 Information warfare sometimes is erroneously referred to as command and control warfare or CZWuse physical and radio-electronic combat attacks against enemy information systems to separate enemy forces from enemy leadership In theory information warfare actually is a much larger set of activities aimed at the mind and will of the enemy 2 Chris Mader Information Systems Technology Economics Applications Chicago Science Research Associates Inc 1974 3 3 The waves of societies are described by Alvin Tof er in The Third Wave New York William Morrow and Company Inc 1980 See also Alvin and Heidi Tof er War and Anti War Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century Boston Little Brown and Company 1993 A seminal work on institutional forms is forthcoming from David Ronfeldt 4 John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt Cyberwar is Coming Comparative Strategy 2 April-June 1993 141-65 5 Martin van Creveld The Transfonnation of War New York Free Press 1991 196 205 Words like war and the lately contrived war ghter confuse the warriors in a democracy by misuse In the United States War with a big W is declared by the Congress the people representing all the people Executive War Powers are really warfare powers The days of Clausewitzian trinitarian Wars may very well be over as van Creveld suggests The days of warfare however are not over 6 Sun Tzu The Art of War trans Samuel B Grif th New York Oxford University Press 1971 77 7 Richard Szafranski Toward a Theory of Neocortical Warfare Pursuing the Acme of Skill Military Review November 1994 and idem When Waves Collide Con ict in the Next Century JFQ Joint Force Quarterly Winter 1994- 95 8 Joseph A Engelbrecht War Termination Why Does a State Decide to Stop Fighting diss Columbia University 1992 Colonel Engelbrecht is a colleague at the Air University's Air War College 9 Arqui11a and Ronfeldt note 9 162 According to this de nition a message with no discernible meaning is still information This de nition is useful when contemplating the tactics of information warfare 10 Ibid 11 Phenomenology can be de ned as the theory of the appearances fundamental to all empirical knowledge Dorion Cairns in Dagobert D Runes ed Dictionary of Philosophy Totowa N J Little eld Adams Co Ltd 1962 231-34 12 C G Jung The Undiscovered Self New York The New American Library Mentor Book 1958 102 13 Information warfare requires that philosophers cultural anthropologists area specialists linguists and semanticists join the operations staff The days have passed when war colleges or staff colleges could neglect these other disciplines 14 John R Boyd brie ng slides subject A Discourse 0n Winning and Losing August 1987 Maxwell AFB Alabama 15 Ibid 16le von Clausewitz 0n War ed and trans Michael Howard and Peter Paret Princeton Princeton University Press 1976 book 6 chapter 6 372 76 17 Ledger Wood in Runes 94-96 18 The effects to which I refer are more complicated than the inability to prevent your own jamming from interfering with your own communications systems These uncon nable spillover effects of stray electrons can be modeled and some compensation can be made for their effects The weapons and effects of information warfare are not so easily con nable or controllable In warfare it is common to both demonize and ridicule the enemy Ridicule often takes the form of jokes If these jokes ridicule an enemy from a different ethnic group these jokes become of cially sanctioned racist jokes If the ethnic group is part of our own citizenry such attacks can cause collateral damage The collateral damage to the armed forces may have effects as far-reaching as the appearance of of cially condoned racism If one accepts that weapons and attacks have stochastic effects then some consequences are unpredictable 19 Van Creveld 35 20 Grant T Hammond Paradoxes of War JF Q Joint Forces Quarterly Spring 1994 Dr Hammond is a colleague on Air University's Air War College faculty 21 George C Kohn Dictionary of Wars New York Facts On File Publications 1986 214 22 Technomic is a word coined by C01 Joseph A Engelbrecht He de nes it to mean of or relating to progress in the development of the application of scienti c principle technology and in the development of wealth economics and in the interrelationship between advances in science and the spread and increase of economic wealth Technomic vitality Technomic proliferation 23 Gerald R Hurst Taking down Telecommunications Thesis School of Advanced Airpower Studies Air University Maxwell Air Force Base Ala 28 May 1993 24 Ibid 25 Iran provides a good example The Majles investigation into the Iranian department of Voice and Vision illuminates Iran's sensitivity to the content and meaning of pictorial messages Consider these comments from the investigation A basic criticism of the pictorial programs of the Voice and Vision is lack of attention to full veilng of women lack of attention to the chador and spreading of the culture of the manteau and scarves of the immoral kind The grand leader on occasions has given opinions and directives to the Voice and Vision organization or its director Unfortunately the instructions and directives of his honor were not implemented For example From 1368 21 March 1989 20 March 1990 to 1370 21 March 1990 20 March 1991 he made reminders to the Voice and Vision on 14 occasions the most important of which concern A Misinformation B The low level of quality of the beyond-the border programs and failure to propagate and spread Islamic views in them C The broadcast of blasphemous sentences concerning the Sire of the Pious E Showing actual persons in the role of the infallible imams See Majles Investigates Activities of Voice and Vision 3 4 15 November 1993 5 6 in Foreign Broadcast Information Service Report Near East and South Asia 25 January 1994 6 8 I am grateful to Dr George Stein of the Air University's Air War College faculty for pointing out this example of what simultaneously might be internal information warfare and potential vulnerability to external information warfare Saudi Arabia recently joined China as the most recent nation to outlaw satellite television receivers One can easily appreciate the effects that Music Television MTV might have on such cultures 26 A telecommunications executive speaking in an Air University forum under the promise of nonattribution disclosed these estimated gures